June 16th - Lame or Efficient? Amazon Drops Prime Streaming Service
Lame or Efficient? Amazon Drops Prime Streaming Service
Last week Amazon introduced what may be the most limited music streaming service to date or what may be the future of streaming music all together. Amazon Prime Music Licensing has launched without UMG (and many of the hits).But as Billboard has noted: "Amazon's initial offer to labels was a pro-rated share of a fixed revenue pool. And the company wanted to license only a fraction of the available catalog. If the goal is to offer a simple, inexpensive digital music service, this "just enough" approach makes sense."This and more of your music tech news below.
FROM SOUNDCTRL
Amazon Prime Music Launches With Modest Catalog
via SoundCtrl
Human vs. Machine: Balancing the Mechanization of the Music Industry
via SoundCtrl
Human vs. Machine: Big Data and the Artificial Recommendation Engine
via SoundCtrl
Human vs. Machine: Algorithm and Expertise
via SoundCtrl
Human vs. Machine: The Shifting Charm of Music Discovery via SoundCtrl
COVER STORY
Amazon Turns On Prime Music Streaming, Sans Current Hits
via Tech Crunch
Amazon exec explains the takedown plan for Apple, Spotify, & every other music service on the Web via Venture Beat
Why Amazon's Approach to Licensing Could Be the Future of Digital Music
via Billboard
Amazon’s Music Service via The Lefsetz Letter
Amazon Prime Music: ‘We’re not promising a comprehensive selection’
via Musically
INTERESTING
Reach For The Sky, YouTube: Music Service In Standoff via NPR
Heads of RCA, Republic, Atlantic, More Talk Regrets, Data vs. Heart, & Austin Mahone Syndrome
via Billboard
Sidestep launches after working with Fall Out Boy to save rock and roll (merchandise)
via Pandodaily
The Death of East Village Radio
via The New Yorker
How Radio and Streaming Can Be Complementary at New Music Seminar
via Billboard