“A new music streaming subscription service called Primephonic is launching Wednesday (June 14), committed to specifically serving the needs and interests of classical music listeners,” writes Colin Stutz in Wednesday’s (6/14) Billboard.com. Rather than “presenting users with as much music as possible organized by very basic criteria (artist, song title, album and popularity) as the leading streaming services do, Primephonic has focused on the criteria that matters most to classic music listeners, such as composer, sub-genre, era, performer and chronology. ‘For example, the Mozart piano concerto,’ says [co-founder and executive director Simon] Eder, explaining the platform’s search functionality. ‘What a classical music listener would see in Primephonic is an overview of all the piano concertos that Mozart composed.’ … Primephonic is launching … with a $14.99 monthly subscription model…. Primephonic … shares 60 percent of its net revenue with its various label partners and divides that pool based on total seconds of streaming…. Copyright fees will be paid out of the 40 percent Primephonic keeps…. Primephonic inked deals last week with Warner Classical and Sony Classical.”
Posted June 15, 2017