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Music Discover Platform TuneGo Launches A Record Label
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TuneGO, a music discovery platform aimed at working musicians and industry professionals announced that they are launching their own record label aimed at helping to break artists. The TuneGo label launch coincides with the recent addition of Marcus Spence, Senior Vice President of Mosley Music Group, as Head of A&R for TuneGO Music Group. He has previously worked with artists such as Timbaland, One Republic, Chris Cornell and Nelly Furtado. The new label, TuneGO Music Group, Inc. (TMG), has already ...
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Introducing Voltra's 'Stream To Own' Approach
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Although the idea of owning music may seem antiquated in the streaming age, a new online store known as Voltra is approaching things differently by offering consumers a 'stream to own' option, where users can initially listen to a song for free, and then pay for it incrementally with each consecutive listen until they have fully purchased the song. Guest post by Bobby Owsinski of Music 3.0 You’d think that owning music is a thing of the past, yet the iTunes ...
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SoundCloud Gets A Lifeline: $70 Million In Debt Financing
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After publicly admitting that it could run out of cash later this year, SoundCloud has received $70 million in debt financing. The company had, for months, tried and failed to raise $100 million in venture financing Struggling music service SoundCloud has received a much needed $70 million loan from Kreos Capital, the Davidson Technology Growth Debt Fund and Ares Capital. Prior to this round, SoundCloud had raised $123 million, including $70 million from Twitter last year. “We are pleased to ...
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Welcome To The Post-DIY Music Era [Mark Mulligan]
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Business is booming at CD Baby, Bandcamp, Tunecore, Bandzoogle and a host of other service providers for DIY musicians. But from Chance The Rapper to Stormzy and beyond, we are also witnessing a new chapter in artist self-development: The Post-DIY Music Era. By Mark Mulligan of MIDiA I recently took part in the True Music Forum in Madrid, an event organized by Boiler Room. I was on a panel that explored whether DIY is now coming of age with a host ...
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What’s In A Name? Plenty, If The Name Is Cuneiform
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Cuneiform is an independent label recording music that is out of the mainstream. The Claudia Quartet, Wadada Leo Smith and Thinking Plague are on the Cuneiform roster, and it has groups with even wider orbits—Bent Knee from Boston, for instance, the Norwegian quintet I.P.A., the British jazz-punk rock group called Led Bib, and Naima, a trio from Spain. That list constitutes a thin sampling of Cuneiform talent. The history of the label’s name goes back 5,500 years or more. Curious ...
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The Fight For A Straight Count: Does Streaming Accounting Costing More Than Royalites
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When it comes to tracking and accounting songs and recordings, the systems currently in place are both expensive and complex and the royalties paid out are minuscule, this is leading many to advocate for a switch to a simpler method of reporting. Guest post by Chris Castle of Music Tech Solutions When you drill down on exactly what goes into tracking and accounting for songs and recordings on streaming services one thing becomes apparent: No matter how much you automate, ...
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What Do Users Really Want In Their Premium Streaming Music Service? [Glenn Peoples]
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What do consumers really want in a premium music service? Great playlists. People really care about playlists, concludes Glenn Peoples, Music Insights and Analytics at Pandora on the day that the company launches is Pandora Premium Spotify competitor. By Glenn Peoples, Music Insights and Analytics at Pandora What do consumers really want in a premium music streaming service? It’s the record industry’s most important question of the decade. The health of labels, publishers, and creators depends on services’ ability to move ...
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Piracy Is What Made Me, Says Ed Sheeran
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While piracy is often demonized as an aspect of the industry which ruins careers before they've even really begun, the reality is that the illicit dissemination of music can in many ways help to grow an artist's presence in the industry, as was the case with Ed Sheeran. Guest post by Timothy Geigner of Techdirt We all know by now the music industry's mantra that piracy kills artists. Well, not kills kills, but kills their musical careers before they could ...
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