Monthly Archives: April 2012
Classify app makes album sales rize 50%
X5 Music Group released some information Tuesday that shows the positive impact its new Spotify app, called Classify, has had on its download sales. Billboard.biz reports: X5 points to the following statistics for “The 50 Greatest Pieces of Classical Music” after the launch of Classify: album sales rose about 50% and the title reached #1 [...]
Major upgrade to the Spotify Soundrop App
Soundrop is one of the most popular Spotify Apps. A great place to hangout and just listen or vote up or add your favorite music and chat about it. What’s new: The “track not available in your region” issue is fixed. No more silence, Soundrop picks another track from the upcoming list which is close [...]
Not on Spotify? Try Tomahawk: autocomplete for Spotify
Don’t you just hate the holes in the Spotify catalog? I don’t understand why some artists and labels are still refusing to release their music on Spotify. Overall streaming revenues are growing fast, so that should not be the problem anymore. Nevermind, there is a solution now, a new program called Tomahawk. This program combines [...]
Meet Clementine, an alternative client for Spotify
Clementine is a multi platform music player for Spotify, your local files, Grooveshark, Last.fm, SomaFM, Magnatune, Jamendo, SKY.fm Digitally Imported and Icecast. You can create playlists combining songs from different services and your local files. And how about the song info? If you have a Last.fm account you can tell the number of plays and [...]
Indie Artist Makes $20,000 From Streaming In One Month
A few days ago I had a discussion with @medtek and @MrCrimson about the pay out by streaming services. @spotidj @julianhuppert @markpack Actually $0.00750000.Doesn’t feed the artist by a long shot. — MedTek (@medtek) april 1, 2012 The average pay out per stream turned out to be $0.0048, so about 200 streams should be enough [...]