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The Historical Accident of Artists Getting Paid...
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Digital Music News
Is the era of artists getting handsomely paid for their work over? Or, getting paid at all, for that matter? Was it just a fleeting moment that's now getting handed back? “You have to remember that it's only a few hundred years, if that much, that artists are working with money," Francis Ford Coppola recently expressed in an interview with The 99%. “Artists never got money. Artists had a patron, either the leader of the state or the duke of ...
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Why the Decline of MySpace is Great for Musicians
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HypeBot
This post is by Robin Davey of The Hoax and The Bastard Fairies. Interview. Before you could say “We're big on Myspace," it seems the foundations of this once burgeoning oasis of digital discovery have quickly crumbled. These days, it actually closer resembles an online Salton Sea. In retrospect and with hindsight we have to ask ourselves—did we ever really need MySpace? No one made money from music on MySpace. Yes you had 50,000 fans and 1 million plays, but ...
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Personally, I Don't Care if There is Another MySpace.
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HypeBot
This is part two of my interview with Robin Davey. He is a musician, director, and producer. His bands include The Hoax and most recently the eclectic pop duo The Bastard Fairies. Davey has directed music videos and an award-winning documentary. In this interview he talks about how focusing on core fans grew his audience and why he thinks MySpace is in terminal decline. Hypebot: In your initial e-mail, you stated, “bands should see the music industry as small town center and their band like a boutique shop." ...
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"As Things Stand Now, Digital Music Has Failed."
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HypeBot
That “delightful" quote comes from Forrester Research analyst Mark Mulligan. In a recent article in the New York Times, he states, “We are at one of the most worrying stages yet for the industry. As things stand now, digital music has failed." An entire decade is behind us and there hasn't been much progress. Record company executives are starting to worry that the digital music business is already is big as it's going to get. Of course, many say that ...
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#Midem: The Utter Cloudiness of Cloud Music...
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Digital Music News
Our very own Steve Mayall moderated a session at MidemNet today on cloud music, with a panel discussion featuring some of the key actors in the space. The panel featured Thomas Hesse from Sony Music Entertainment, Christophe Lange from streaming service simfy, Harry Maloney from platform provider Catch Media and Daren Tsui from music service mSpot. Mayall pointed out that cloud isn't new—the industry was talking about 'the celestial jukebox' ten years ago—so why the excitement now? “The music lover ...
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Stream the Album, Make It Cheaper - Social Distortion Puts Fans in Control of Record Price
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HypeBot
How do you get fans to listen to the entire album anymore? They want the single. Hell, they probably have the single already. And the rest of the tracks, depending on how big of a fan they are, don't matter so much. Marketers are asking fans to take upwards of half-an-hour to 80 minutes to listen to an album and hope that they don't play Call of Duty the whole time, ignoring the album and its presence altogether. Social Distortion ...
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Jazz, Rage and the Rampage
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Here's a shocker: Alleged Arizona gunman Jared Loughner played saxophone in two jazz bands while in high school and dug Charlie Parker and John Coltrane. According to yesterday's New York Times, Loughner, 22, was so passionate about jazz and dedicated to practicing that a career in music was once considered. These details come as something of a head-snapper. Most of us think of jazz as an intellectual art form favored by thoughtful, sensitive people who appreciate melody, harmony and dexterity. ...
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What CES 2011 Taught Me About the Music Biz
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Moses Supposes
Former Vice President of the United States, Dan Quayle once said, “The future will be better tomorrow." Is there a chance that CES 2011 made sense of this idiom?
You want the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show in one sentence? 3D TVs, every iPad accessory you can think of and competing tablet computers. There, I just saved you a trip to Vegas.
Think you'll never want a 3D TV or an iPad? You're wrong, trust me on this. Sony, LG and ...
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