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Emily White Calls for Professionalism in 2013 / Poll: Who is the Music Industry's Best?
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By Emily White of Whitesmith Entertainment and Readymade Records. I love music and the music industry. I'm a geek about doing the work and love working with artists to help achieve goals and build sustainable careers. As an artist manager and consultant, I work with or create new teams around each artist on our roster. I love working with specialists within our field who know the synch world in and out, or are focused on how modern PR is evolving, ...
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Music Distributors Refuse to Join Labels in the Present
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By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. If you know people who work at record labels, you know they are not without complaint. From Napster to YouTube, half of the new technologies in the world at any time seem specifically designed to subtract money from their bank accounts — oh, and everyone thinks they're too rich, serve no purpose, and are quite probably evil to their very cores, all because they thought it was a good idea to get a job ...
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Goldminds: A Vision for the Future of the Indie Music Community
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By Derek Webb, Co-Founder of Noise Trade. As I'm closing in on the end of my second decade as a professional, indie-minded musician, I've been thinking about how I got here. Through the starting and leaving of a moderately successful band, ups & downs navigating a solo career as an almost hyper-niche artist, and the all but accidental founding of a music distribution company (NoiseTrade.com), I've identified a few characteristics that have been invaluable to me along the way: I'm highly adaptable ...
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The Opportunity of Streaming Services for Artists
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Guest post by Rishi Mirchandani (@rmirchandani) for sidewinder.fm, a music and tech think tank. He handles operations for Turntable.fm. There has been a lot of debate over streaming services and the royalty rates they pay. Critics point to royalties from services like Spotify, where it takes 200 streams to earn the equivalent of one download, as evidence that these services don't provide a viable income for artists. Damon Krukowski of Galaxie 500 argued these streaming services “are doing nothing for the ...
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The Holy Grail of Music Listening: Social, Discovery, and Recommendations
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Guest post by Sagee Ben-Zedeff (@sageeb) for sidewinder.fm, a music and tech think tank. Ben-Zedeff is the founder and CEO of Serendip Media. Three months ago, Nielsen published one of my favorite reports of the year, Music 360. It's a rather comprehensive, in-depth study of consumer interaction with music in the US. The results this year didn't surprise me, and shouldn't surprise anyone who has followed the behavioral trends around online music consumption in the last few years. However, I know many people ...
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MOG's Fallen King: Hyman Gets the Boot
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David Hyman had a dream that came true. He spearheaded a Spotify competitor that delivered near-audiophile quality music to your phone. So good was MOG, that in July of 2012 it was bought by headphone innovator, Beats for reported $14 Million, which included relocating Hyman and his family to Malibu is serious first-class style. But, less than 15 weeks after the acquisition, the Hollywood honeymoon came to a dead end and Hyman was out of a job. What went wrong? ...
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Music Discovery: The Path to Digital Failure
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Guest post by Kyle Bylin of sidewinder.fm, a music and tech think tank. Billboard has doubled down on a particularly dangerous idea. In the trade publication's annual FutureSound white paper, it proclaims that music discovery is “The Key To Digital Fortune." This is, at best, egregious hyperbole, and, at worst, complete mystification. Senior correspondent Alex Pham, who wrote this section of the paper, concedes that enabling listeners to discover music is “much harder than it seems, as evidenced by the numerous ...
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An Empowered Future for Musicians
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Guest post by Matt Urmy (@matturmy), Founder and CEO of Artist Growth, for sidewinder.fm, a music and tech think tank. I would never presume to be able to provide truly valuable insight into the values and philosophies that shaped the business models of the music industry from previous decades. I simply do not know enough about it. And today, there are many areas of the industry that I would not be qualified to give a keynote speech about, such as copyright ...
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