Electronic Dance Music News, DJ Gear & Tech, South Africa
Soundcloud loss of €51 million in 2015 does not bode well The major Soundcloud loss of €51million in 2015 could be affecting the company’s financial fluidity in 2017. Reports keep coming through on the happenings over at Soundcloud since it seems the situation with buyers and backers changes weekly. Last week there were even rumours […]
Soundcloud mixes will no longer be removed for copyright infringement Soundcloud mixes won’t be taken down anymore due to copyright issues. This goes for both the free and paying Soundcloud subscribers. This latest bit of great news regarding Soundcloud DJ mixes came about while the company was negotiating terms for the paid service, Soundcloud Go. […]
Ditto DJ Plus will get your music onto Beatport Ditto DJ Plus is a music distribution service and its biggest sales point for now is the fact that it has a prominent ‘Approved by Beatport’ logo on the front page of the website. Previously one would either need to be signed to a record label […]
Now you can add Spotify music to your Tinder profile If you like spending your lunch breaks swiping through the selfies of potential dates on Tinder then this is a little something you might enjoy. Tinder is teaming up with Spotify so that you can add music to your profile. This could be a fun […]
QQ Music, China’s version of Spotify is making money QQ Music may be succeeding where Spotify is failing. While Spotify is reportedly losing $200 million per year, the Chinese QQ Music is said to be making a profit. The general manager of Tencent’s music division referred to this at a recent industry forum. Tencent is […]
Orfium could be the new Soundcloud Orfium is a brand new music discovery platform which has literally just gone live in the last 48 hours. First impressions of Orfium are that it looks quite similar in functionality to Soundcloud but from what they had to say to Magnetic Magazine, the founders have a few of […]
Open Music Initiative will change the way royalties work Thanks to the Open Music Initiative the way that royalties in the music business works, could completely change. It is an open source platform that will help rights holders track royalties more easily. Spotify, YouTube, Pandora, SoundCloud, Netflix and SiriusXM have all gotten together with Universal […]
JAY Z suing previous TIDAL owners Allegedly JAY Z is suing previous TIDAL owners in what appears to be a crash and burn move that nearly everyone could see coming; except for the out of touch mogul and his yes-people. We reported before that he had plans to sell Tidal and cut his losses, suing […]
Pyro the DJ app launched by Serato Serato has launched Pyro, a brand new DJ app for your next house party. The new Pyro app integrates with your Spotify in order to create seamless party play lists. The Pyro app acts as an automatic DJ that is able to beat match the tracks on your […]
Beatport owners SFX file for Bankruptcy SFX Entertainment who are the Beatport owners have filed for bankruptcy. In the meantime Beatport wants to assure everyone that all will be business as usual, calling the recent state of events a reorganisation. According to Beatport’s official statement… “For all of us here at Beatport, it’s just business […]
