MusicTech Rewinder - Issue #32

September 04, 2020

ENJOY READING AND HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!

Cheers,

Matt

A recent panel brought together some of the biggest players in music and gaming to discuss the intersection of the two industries.

My favorite part about launching a new tool or service has always been talking to the first testers. By discussing various improvement ideas, we inevitably touch on the subject of their lives and…

Collective artist ownership is the only way to fix Spotify.If artists can collectively own platforms like Spotify, we can address the underlying problem.

Following the out of touch comments of Spotify CEO Daniel Ek that appeared to refer to artists as “content creators”

2020 will go down as a rough year for many artists, largely because of the income they lost when live ground to a halt. Unfortunately, the live music sector is still going to be disrupted in 2021 and it may take even longer for the sector to return to ‘normal’. In fact, we could see…

Over two dozen livestreaming platforms are now fighting for attention in a virtual concert market worth $1 billion with the potential to grow tenfold in just a few years.

There’s a running joke in the Water & Music Discord server that involves an imaginary drinking game: Whenever we learn about a new music livestreaming platform, everybody takes a shot. .

Amazon Music will now allow artists to livestream directly within its the platform through a partnership with Amazon-owned Twitch.

American music fans racked up an unprecedented one trillion streams in 2019, drawing in $28.2 million per day for the U.S. music industry. Yet that’s still not enough to take the industry back to its CD-era glory days.