Amazon Music In The News

Music’s biggest companies are waiting for a Spotify price rise. For now, Spotify isn’t budging.

Daniel Ek is wondering if Netflix "didn't get ahead of itself" with its streaming price rises...

TuneCore overhauls pricing to offer unlimited music distribution for a single annual fee – laying down gauntlet to rivals like DistroKid

TuneCore’s new Unlimited release program lets artists distribute as many releases as they like for an upfront annual fee

Julia Hummel named Vice President, Digital Strategy & Business Development, at Warner Music Canada

Hummel will help the label’s artists leverage opportunities up in Web3

Sonos is officially launching its own voice assistant

The Sonos 'Voice Control' assistant will be available for US customers on June 1

Amazon Music continues Latam expansion with launch in Argentina

Amazon Music launched in Colombia and Chile in November

Laura Lukanz named Head of Music Industry, UK, Australia & New Zealand, at Amazon Music

Exec will oversee label relations, artist relations, programming and editorial for the streaming service

$1.3bn-valued DistroKid moves into video distribution with new DistroVid launch

The DistroVid platform will allow artists to upload an unlimited amount of music videos and keep 100% of their earnings, the company says

Record labels and publishers ink major settlement, moving from 9.1 cents to 12 cents per track for US mechanical royalties on physical sales

Agreement reached to settle rate negotiation in the US