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The Battle For American Music Lovers Heated Up Thursday As Spotify Lifted Listening Limits On U.S. Users
The battle for American music lovers heated up Thursday as Spotify lifted listening limits on U.S. users of its free, ad-supported service. When it launched in the U.S. in July, Spotify said it would offer six months of free, unlimited listening to U.S. users but impose time limits thereafter. But the limits were never actually put in place. Nine months later, U.S. users are still listening without the time limits that were outlined in July.
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4 DAYS... Lunatic- Living In Reality Mixtape - 04/13/12
If your aim as an artist is to purely chase a record deal as a means to succeeding in this business, I will tell you right now that you are doomed for failure. You can throw all the trumped up statistics around that you want, but fundamentally your chances of actually landing a record deal are extremely slim. Furthermore, your chances of actually making money directly from that deal are pretty much zero.
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Songkick Announces 100,000 New Users Through Spotify App
There's a common saying in the concert and ticketing businesses that 40% of all tickets go unsold because people weren't aware of the shows. This 40% Rule seems to have come from Live Nation internal research. CEO Michael Rapino was using it as recently as July 2009, and since then the rule has been repeated throughout the music industry.
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