Canada Pushes Spotify, Netflix and Other Foreign-Owned Streamers

 

Canada’s House of Commons has passed Bill C-11 with an eye to raising around $800 million annually from U.S. streamers and social media platforms as they become obligated to subsidize local Canadian film, TV and music product.

Midwest Swing - Streams On Spotify

"Midest Swing" is the first original Bean City anthem by UnionMade Xans of Lima, Ohio. This track was recently released on "The Vault" album presented by Gansta Macus of The Wrap- Up Magazine! 

$8M Raised To Get Artist Paid

“A lot of the new tools that have been created in the fintech space have really been focused on the services that have enabled independent small businesses to grow on their own,” Rabkin said. “Artists and creators are no different, the problem is no one’s created tools that cater to them. If you look at Intuit you have Mint, but for an artist with unpredictable income and difficult to track revenue streams [it’s different]. You can plug in your bank account, but Intuit and mint doesn’t plug into iTunes or YouTube or Spotify.”

Another problem Stem is trying to tackle is ensuring that collaborators that may not be able to monetize their content. Some artists — like first-timers — may be releasing content but have to treat it purely as promotional or marketing. Instead of just focusing on making money of touring, Rabkin said Stem will hopefully offer those artists some way of driving revenue right from the get-go.

The data that Stem brings in from all these disparate platforms may also, itself, be valuable. Artists can get information on their listeners and start to zero in on some of their preferences. That might help them tailor their tours or other parts of their marketing. But adding information around revenue streams on top of that adds another layer of data that can signal a much stronger level of engagement than some of the other signals they might have.

There will likely be plenty of competition in the space. Kobalt, for example, raised $75 million at a $775 million valuation last month. And each of these services — like iTunes or Spotify — may end up simplifying their artist tools down enough that it may not require such complicated background gymnastics to figure out how to get the right people paid. But Rabkin hopes that by building a seamless enough experience Stem will be able to attract a wide artist base that includes Frank Ocean, Childish Gambino, DJ Jazzy Jeff, Anna Wise, Chromatics, and Poolside.

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Bean City Now Playing

The Gansta Marcus produced track "Bean City" is now playing on Spotify and other streaming services. This track streams off the 419 To The 662 Album!

#NewMusic IQ - "Faded" @IQtheMC

Los Angeles emcee/producer IQ presents his new self-produced single "Faded", hot on the heels of previous singles "Magic Tricks" (Spotify) and "Everywhere I Go" (Spotify). IQ's last full-length release was IQ Test (Bandcamp). 

"This one actually was written over the course of a few weeks," IQ says about his new single. "I added new rhymes as I thought of them, and adjusted the lines to make sure I'm not just rhyming, but actually saying what I want to say. But for the hook I just got faded and freestyled off the top."

Stream @ganstamarcus on all Digital Music Services

 

The Wrap Up Magazine is proud to present Gansta Marcus of Lima, Ohio. Not only is Gansta Marcus a artist, he is also a promoter and producer.

We invite you to stream music provided by Gansta Marcus and his production company on any digital platform you may use.

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Kobalt Collects $75M In Artist Royalties

Kobalt, the European startup that has built technology and a platform to collect music royalties by tracking when even a sample of a song is played across multiple platforms, has raised another $75 million in funding.

#Stream The Scnd - A Place For No Angel @nocontextscnd @CNNMON1 #NowPlayingonTWUM

 

R&B songwriter/producer/artist The Scnd releases new music via Spotify titled "A Place For No Angel." Be sure to show love to the artist by streaming to your playlist!

#NewMusic #NowPlayingOnTWUM Lil Q - Posted Up

R.I.P. Edward Wade and salute to Lil Q of Cleveland, Mississippi for wanting to keep this track alive. "Posted Up" was a track released on "419 To The 662" album which delivered many crammed packed hits.

The Gansta-Marcus produced album "419 To The 662" was a album that went a long way and did 100k free streams using Spotify and Apple itunes.

The Wrap-Up Magazine is proud to present of one the hardest hit tracks for the summer. Hood from all over is going to want to bump "Posted Up."

419 To The 662 On Spotify

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#Stream #SpotifyPlaylist For #HipHop #MusicLovers

 

Spotify and Facebook seems to go one on one with each other when it comes to artist and music. This featured spotify playlist 30 hip-hop songs and is a lengthy 1 hour and 28 minutes of music time.

Be sure to stream the playlist and follow the artists you like the most.

#Stream #NewMusic MURS x Wiardon - Starting Lineup

 

California emcee Murs & Texas beatsmith Wiardon present "Starting Lineup", featuring Larry June & ICECOLDBISHOP, the lead single from their collaboration EP speak n spell. Murs is a trailblazer of first the West Coast then the global underground hip-hop scene, going from selling cassettes of his music around the world with Living Legends to releasing albums with Warner Music Group, Def Jux, Rhymesayers, Strange Music and Dame Dash to name just a few.

Swag On 100 Streams On Spotify

The Swag duo Edward Wade and Sip Hop hit song "Swag On 100" is now playing on Spotify. This is a quick commercial related track for the radio stations. This is song to get the wave clubs moving off their feet after a drink. Listen in!

Lima's Music Industry Leader

The Wrap-Up Magazine is proud to present their artist Gansta-Marcus of Lima, Ohio as the music industry leader in the city. Will all his hard work and dedication he puts into social media, his career is still taking a rise to exposure.

Gansta-Marcus continued to adapt to the digital world in 2016 and guarantees that there's much more chaos and innovation to come. His pervasive presence of music streaming is completely changing for 2017 with his introduction to the swag revolution.

Gansta-Marcus age of streaming music has arrived in full force. The era of streaming music is upon us. We believe that by 2021, one billion people worldwide will be paying for streaming music. New research suggests that while Spotify is reducing music sales, the streaming service is a revenue-neutral platform for the recorded music industry.

Stream Millions of songs by clicking one of the images below.

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Investors Put $2.4 Billion Into Music

In the 57 investment deals totaling over $2.4 billion tracked by Billboard, nearly 9 in 10 dollars invested went to a traditional music company, an EDM concert promoter or a company that streams music. Most of the investments were made in small, digital startups. Some are trying to improve how people discover concerts. A handful of them are changing how people create music.

A similar company hoping to disrupt the recorded music market is Beats Music, a subscription service that launched Jan. 21. An offshoot of Beats Electronics, the maker of the popular Beats By Dr. Dre headphones, Beats Music raised $60 million from Access Industries, the owner of Warner Music Group. (A year earlier, Access placed $130 million in Deezer, a competitor of Spotify and Beats Music.)

Warner Music Group’s acquisition of Parlophone Label Group was the biggest single investment in music in 2013. The $765 million deal, representing nearly a third of the year’s music investments, gave Warner not only Parlophone and Chrysalis but EMI’s operations in a handful of European countries. Also in this category was the acquisition of Nettwerk Music Group for $10.3 million in April.

Investors in streaming music were attracted to scale, potential and momentum rather than profitability. Services that provide on-demand streaming either audio or video raised $406.5 million. The largest deal was a $250 million investment in Spotify, an unprofitable company that’s a category leader and has 24 million active users — not all of them paying customers — across 55 countries.

SFX Entertainment accounted for the next-largest bucket, concert promotion, worth $480 million. The EDM-focused company’s initial public stock offering in October raised $260 million. It also acquired three EDM promoters: ID&T for $130 million, i-Motion for $21 million and Totem OneLove Group for $69.1 million.

In spite of a reputation for difficult business models and costly licensing fees, services that use licensed music attracted $838.8 million, or 49% of all investments. Four deals landed by Internet radio companies raised $443.3 million. Following Pandora’s $393.3-million secondary stock offering were smaller venture capital rounds by TuneIn ($25 million), DeliRadio ($9.4 million) and Songza ($4.7 million). There is a catch: TuneIn is merely an aggregator of Internet radio streams and doesn’t itself pay any royalties.

Investors backed numerous companies that help consumers find music they like. The smallest investment was $100,000 in Bop.fm, an online tool that aggregates songs from various digital music services. Two other startups that offer aggregation tools, Songdrop and MFiveLabs, received funding. Investors also backed numerous companies that help people discovery music or concerts. Most such deals were small, but music identification app Shazam received a $40-million investment from the world’s richest man, Carlos Slim.

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Will Facebook Issues Be The Downfall Of TikTok, Spotify, And Tinder?

A number of popular apps and services including Spotify, Music Blogs, Pinterest, and Tinder were inaccessible today on iOS devices due to a now-resolved issue involving Facebook log-ins.

There were widespread reports on social media of apps crashing whenever launched on iPhones and iPads, and corresponding outage spikes on DownDetector.com.

The cause of the outages seems to have been Facebook’s software development kit, or SDK, which many apps use to manage user logins. Users don’t have to be using Facebook to log into an app for this to affect their software (they don’t even have to have it installed), and there were no reports of the same apps crashing on Android.

#indiemusic #spotifyplaylist #nowplaying by @realListige

 

Listige is back out with a new spotify playlist and this time they have Gansta Marcus's track "Overtime" playing on there Indie mixtape.

This is the first Listige playlist that's based on tweets from Twitter! With over 1000 followers and counting, this is the ideal playlist for indie artists to get noticed!

Drake Still Breaking Records

With Drake set to pick up where he left off as the undeniable king of music streams, with the release of his More Life playlist on Saturday, March 18, comes the timely announcement that the Toronto rap star is officially being recognized as the first artist to ever earn 10 billion streams on Spotify.

Drake's last studio album in and of itself accounts for a decent chunk of those plays, having topped 2 billion streams by its own merits. He's also got several heavy hitter singles that have helped him arrive at the remarkable plateau, including "Once Dance," which has 1 billion plays all on its own.

By now there is little doubt that his career corresponding with the rise of music's new system of consumer metrics, is becoming a theme synonymous with Drake's work. One year ago he released Views and benefited as all news Drake, on every platform from Instagram to Youtube and the bevy of hip-hop publications online indeed garnered the page clicks and impressions to give it one of the longest chart-topping streaks in Billboard history. Now comes his More Life project, which would likely have been called a mixtape only the year before last, but is being branded a "Play List," which in marketing terms legitimizes the music streaming business.

While Views was released as an Apple Music exclusive, Drizzy's camp announced this week that the new project will be streamed across platforms, which might actually empower it to dish units in a faster manner than Views did, although it doesn't have the power singles that the last album had, behind it. ["Hotline Bling" completely broke the internet and truly took meme/vine generated singles popularity to new heights].

While nobody sharing in the company of having 10 billion streams is quite an achievement, Drake has actually been Spotify's top guy for nearly a year already, ever since it was announced that he had surpassed Justin Bieber as the service's most streamed artist ever, back in May of 2016.

Miley Cyrus Sets Spotify Record

 

Miley Cyrus can buy herself flowers — 1 billion of them, to be exact. On Thursday (May 4), the pop star’s anthemic hit “Flowers” broke yet another record by becoming the quickest song to reach 1 billion streams in Spotify history.

#MusicReview #Hiphop #Stream #Rnb

 

The Wrap Up Magazine is proud to present Gansta Marcus of Lima, Ohio. Not only is Gansta Marcus a artist, he is also a promoter and producer.

We invite you to stream music provided by Gansta Marcus and his production company on any digital platform you may use.

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