From: Steve Hopkins Subject: Re: Already Forgotten? Playlist Hey Bob, Did you create a Spotify playlist for these? Did I overlook it? Can’t find a link on your blog or in Spotify search. Thx! ____________________________________________ From: Dan Stuart Subject: RE: Streaming Pays Hey Bob, This has been happening for years.  In August of 2020, Kobalt’s […]

“She says The Orchard model is working for acts of all sizes and quotes numbers to support this. Their five biggest artists ‘are making eight figures’ and 127 are ‘making over seven figures.’ Around 2,000 acts distributed via The Orchard made over $100,000 in the past 12 months.” The “She” is Colleen Theis, President and […]

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Universal lost. We know this because no terms were announced. A deal was struck, and Lucian Grainge walked away with his tail between his legs while declaring victory. I’m not saying Universal got nothing, but compared to what it wanted… This was a gross miscalculation. Grainge thought TikTok was MTV, whose lifeblood was music, or […]