Finding new and innovative ways to connect creators, artists, and fans has always been a part of our DNA. That effort took on a new and critical resonance in the face of Covid-19. While the global pandemic disrupted our lives, families, and large swaths of the economy, performers and creators faced a unique challenge to…
AMP’s New Track Reporting Feature Gives Artists Even Deeper Insights on Their Pandora Spins
One of AMP’s most popular features, Artist Audio Messages, has now driven over 12 billion listener impressions.
Pandora’s Artist Marketing Platform (AMP) pioneered self-serve artist marketing for the streaming era, giving creators a unique view into the ways that listeners were discovering and engaging with their music on Pandora. Since then, AMP has continued to offer creators a growing (and free) suite of easy-to-use online marketing tools that helps artists increase their spins on…
You Make the Song, We’ll Match It
At SiriusXM and Pandora, we’ve always believed that the energy and passion that creators put into making music should be matched by our efforts to deliver their music to our listeners, whether they be long-time fans or recent converts. Beginning with our unique programs, stations, and playlists aimed at driving listener discovery, our mission has…
How SiriusXM’s the Highway, airing ‘Stagecouch’ this weekend, became a not-so-secret weapon for new country singers
For the millions of people who subscribe to satellite radio, it’s a reliable source of time travel: big band sounds from the 1940s, alternative grunge, classic R&B, early millennium pop smashes, the Beatles, hours of Howard Stern interviews. The possibility to get lost in the past is endless. But at the other end of the…
MAJOR MUSIC STREAMING SERVICES AND TECH COMPANIES JOIN MUSICARES® AND THE RECORDING ACADEMY® IN SUPPORT OF COVID-19 RELIEF FUND
SIRIUSXM AND PANDORA, SPOTIFY, TIDAL, AND YOUTUBE MUSIC CONTRIBUTE GENEROUS DONATIONS TO THE MUSICARES® COVID-19 RELIEF FUND
Leading music streaming and tech companies Amazon Music, Facebook, SiriusXM and Pandora, Spotify, TIDAL, and YouTube Music have announced today they are contributing to COVID-19 Relief Fund affiliated charitable foundation MusiCares®, to support music industry workers in need. The COVID-19 Relief Fund was established to provide monetary support to the thousands of music creators and industry professionals…
SiriusXM Goes Hollywood With The Help Of Dave Matthews, Billie Eilish, Howard Stern And More
SiriusXM recently set up shop in Hollywood, building studios and their own venue for intimate live shows, “The Garage,” in a Hollywood high rise. To celebrate their expansion in L.A., the satellite radio behemoth, which now carries more than 100,000,000 subscribers and listeners after their merger with streaming service Pandora, held a series of special…
John Legend Wows at Union Station Pop-Up Performance
People’s ‘Sexiest Man Alive’ serenaded some lucky fans, for free, with Christmas music.
Published Works Enter the Public Domain in the United States for First Time in Twenty Years
New Year’s Day 2019 was a landmark for American copyright law. For the first time in twenty years, published works of expression—including books, music, and films—started moving out of copyright protection and into the public domain.
Pandora Expands Atlanta Office, Creating 250 Jobs
One of the largest music streaming services will create 250 jobs in Atlanta.
These were the Grammys’ most political moments, from Logic to Hillary Clinton
Though Bruno Mars’s lighthearted “24K Magic” prevailed over more pointed albums from rappers Jay-Z and Kendrick Lamar, the 2018 Grammy Awards managed to get political through the words of its performers and presenters.