SoundCloud In The News

Why music companies should stop using vague stats

Eamonn Forde explores the rise of 'vaguestats' in the music business

Spotify just patented its own A&R technology to predict breaking artists. Should labels be concerned?

Daniel Ek's company suggests it could ink "recording deals" with on-the-rise artists... and spot them sooner than record companies

SoundCloud launches artist-signing JV with Coach K and P’s Solid Foundation Management

Coach K and P have invested an undisclosed amount in SoundCloud

Universal just hired this exec to drive forward its Web 3.0 business

Richard Cusick joins the music company as Chief Product Officer, Global E-Commerce

From SoundCloud’s $218m+ revenues to Snoop Dogg’s $44m+ worth of NFTs: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up

The biggest stories of the week – and why they matter

SoundCloud’s annual revenues topped $218m in 2020 – and it’s been making bold moves ever since

MBW gets our hands on SoundCloud's results from 2020, and they reveal a 31% annual rise in revenues

Spotify was hit by a strange outage today, with hits by Taylor Swift, Adele, Dua Lipa suddenly left unavailable to play

MBW has confirmed with friends in the industry that the outage hit Spotify in both the US and the UK, as well as European territories such as Germany and France.

Exceleration Music makes raft of new hires

Mike Gillespie, Bela Zecker, Andy Lewis, Emma Walker and David Piechota join the indie music company