DistroKid In The News

TIDAL to launch user-centric royalties system and direct-to-artist payments

TIDAL makes raft of announcements around membership tiers and artist payments

‘The music industry can feel like playing the lottery for musicians. But those building communities on Twitch are getting rewarded.’

Twitch's Tracy Chan answers MBW's questions

Snapchat inks licensing deal with Sony Music Entertainment

Deal means that Snap now has partnerships in place with all three major labels

Twitch launches The Collective, a livestreaming incubator program for artists

Partners include Amazon Music, Discord, DistroKid, Rolling Stone, TuneCore, and UnitedMasters

From Live Nation’s $2.7bn Q3 revenues to HYBE’s NFT joint venture: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-up

The biggest stories of the past five days – and why they matter

UnitedMasters valued at $550m, after raising $50m in new funding round

Round was led by Andreessen Horowitz

Spotify offloads two thirds of its stake in DistroKid for $167m

Spotify made a minority investment in DistroKid back in 2018

TuneCore, which paid out over $400m to indie artists last year, has a new CEO: Andreea Gleeson

Gleeson joined TuneCore in 2015, the same year it was acquired by Believe