Brief - The Hustle | music (2)

Spotify’s recent product moves hint at a budding super-app

Rob Litterst
Updated 11/30/21
Meet the LinkedIn of the music industry

Trung T. Phan
Updated 8/16/21
Music startups have raised $350m+ to help artists go viral

Trung T. Phan
Updated 7/9/21
Songtradr raised $50m to help it become the leading B2B music marketplace

Juliet Bennett Rylah
Updated 6/23/21
Social music site Turntable.fm is back from the dead… and has an interesting rival

Kolby Hatch
Updated 5/28/21
Why would Square buy streaming music service Tidal?

Trung T. Phan
Updated 12/30/20
The music rights boom, explained

Trung T. Phan
Updated 12/9/20
Spotify’s genius marketing play

Trung T. Phan
Updated 12/4/20
What’s going on with Taylor Swift’s master tapes?

Trung T. Phan
Updated 11/18/20
‘Streaming farms’ are Spotify’s newest credibility problem

Michael Waters
Updated 10/7/20
SoundCloud adds mainstream distribution to its indie résumé

Wes Schlagenhauf
Updated 9/29/20
Sofar Sounds raises $25m — but will performers see any dough?

Emily Kelley
Updated 9/23/20
Pandora jacked up ads for 35m of its users, and old people paid to make them just stop

Conor Grant
Updated 9/23/20
2 out of 3 of Spotify’s major record label shareholders cash in their stock for over $1B

Wes Schlagenhauf
Updated 9/23/20
Tidal allegedly fudged streaming numbers for Beyoncé and Kanye West albums

Wes Schlagenhauf
Updated 9/23/20
YouTube rolls out ‘Premium’ music service in an attempt to drown out Spotify

Conor Grant
Updated 9/23/20
Sony buys EMI Music Publishing for $2.3B — but it still doesn’t own ‘Thriller’

Wes Schlagenhauf
Updated 9/23/20
DJ Skee is fed up with FM and hates soulless streaming, so he raised $8.8m for ‘new’ radio

Conor Grant
Updated 9/23/20
Spotify turns our emotions into data, and then profits off of them

Wes Schlagenhauf
Updated 9/23/20
A strange scourge for the classical music industry: Copyright bots

The Hustle
Updated 9/19/20

Brief - The Hustle | music (2)