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YouTube: Is This the Best the Industry Can Do?
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Digital Music News
Everyone is rooting for subscription. And it's hard to imagine anyone getting more hype and funding than Spotify. But the music industry may already be staring its killer app in the face: YouTube. “YouTube is music's killer app," declared ForresterResearch analyst Mark Mulligan at Canadian Music Week in Toronto. “The music video remains the consumer usage sweet spot." Vevo chief Rio Caraeff was more than happy to second that notion, especially given his hand-in-glove relationship with the video giant. “YouTube ...
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Would You Buy Warner Now if You Could?
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Moses Supposes
Between Warner and EMI on the selling block you're about to see several billion more dollars injected into our supposedly diminishing industry. An opportunity for anyone to make money with music in the next few months is upon us.
Do you know the best part of having integrity? You don't have to back-peddle when your hidden agenda is exposed.
While just about every tech-groupie blogger who predicted the demise of the major labels hides in an intellectual corner until they ...
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The Elimination of the Major Label Model
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HypeBot
This comment was left by Ritch Esra, the Publisher of Music Business Registry, on the post 6 Reasons Why The Major Labels Are Still Screwed. The four major labels have a far more profound problem which is that they can no longer sustain their business model. Last year, around this time, writer Paul Rogers' published an article in the LA Weekly that discussed the demise of the major label A&R profession. Here we are a year later, continuing to witness ...
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What It Really Means To Be A Working Musician
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One Working Musician by Jason Parker
As the title of this blog suggests, I pride myself on being a working musician. This year marks my 10th anniversary of making a living through my music and I couldn't be happier with how my life has turned out. When I quit my day job in 2001 I had no idea what my life would end up looking like, but I knew that whatever the outcome I'd be happier if I at least tried to build my life around ...
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Admit It, Social Media is out of Control.
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HypeBot
If despots can't control social media, how can we expect to? It may seem a trivial comparison, but it is a useful one. In our own little world of music, can anyone really predict, much less guarantee, social success? Messages to fans are re-interpreted in unexpected ways. Facebook, the dominate social channel, is constantly changing the rules of engagement. Social media is out of control. In Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations, Clay Shirky compares the ability ...
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The Negative Effects of Rewarding Music Fandom
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HypeBot
FanTrail is the latest of the line in app platforms that attempt to increase the connectivity between fans and the artists they love. Like any product of this kind, artists can update their fans from one location, sell music, and provide concert information. Where FanTrail differs is that it has integrated a fandom measurement and reward system into the app. The idea is that fans who interact with the app and do favorable things like attend shows, buy music, and ...
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Being Wrong Doesn't Matter, Being Curious Does.
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HypeBot
Before we get back to our regularly scheduled programming, i.e. the music industry deathwatch, social media wizardry, and gentle major label bashing, I need to clear something up. Right here. Right now. In the comments, a reader said that if I continue to make bold predictions and declare things “dead" that I'm increasing my chances of being proven wrong. That somehow, being “wrong" is something I should be ashamed of. Notably, said reader argued I'm only helping solidify the “Hype" ...
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Music: A "Great Hobby" in 5-10 Years?
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Digital Music News
Will music be reduced to a mere hobby over the next decade, even for bands like Cake? That's not the rosiest of forecasts, though Cake lead singer John McCrea is admittedly pessimistic. “Can you put food on the table with music? Probably not. I see music as a really great hobby for most people in fiveor 10 years," McCrea told NPR's All Things Considered this afternoon."I see everybody I know, some of them really important artists, studying how to do ...
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