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Most Expensive Vinyl Record Ever Sold
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How much is the most expensive vinyl ever sold worth? A recent test pressing of The Beatles White Album sold for a record setting amount of cash, providing some insight into how high stakes the world of record collecting can become. Guest Post by Bobby Owsinski on Music 3.0 Vinyl record collectors can really go overboard when it comes to a rare record or a rare edition or version. Just like coin collectors, they especially revel in records with a flaw that ...
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A Pandora Listener, Facebook Like And Twitter Follower All Walk Into A Bar - The Impact Of Pandora Artist Stations
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Although some may be quick to dismiss Pandora as simply another streaming platform, some recent numbers show that many of Pandora's top artists have more station followers and better, more economical fan reach than many social media outlets. Guest Post by Glenn Peoples on Medium Key takeaways: A third of the top 1,000 Pandora artists have more artist stations than Facebook followers. It’s more than a third domestically since artist stations primarily exist in the U.S. while social followings are ...
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Pandora Will Not Announce Music Service Today, As CEO Tim Westergren Goes Head To Head With Apple's Tim Cook
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HypeBot
Today is The Tale Of Two Tims. Excuse the alliteration, but that's exactly what's happening today when Pandora CEO Tim Westergren takes the stage at the CITI Global Technology Conference within minutes of Apple CEO Tim Cook taking the stage for Apple annual fall product launch. Pandora has been pushing hard to put the final touches on the label deals needed to launch a paid on-demand streaming music service. CEO Tim Westergren had hoped to announce a Spotify-like service when he ...
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The High Wire Of Releasing Music [David Emery]
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In this piece, David Emery muses on the changing face of the music industry, and how windowing and streaming exclusives are precipitating gradual but fundamental alterations to the way artists release music and listeners consume it. Guest post by David Emery, VP Global Marketing Strategy for Kobalt Label Services Releasing music is getting complicated, isn’t it? Once, you’d simply use huge factories dotted around the world to etch your record onto a small plastic disc, then use fleets of planes, trains ...
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ECM Releases Four New Titles in September: Tigran Hamasyan, Giovanni Guidi, Andrew Cyrille and Jakob Bro
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ECM Records
RELEASE DATE: September 9 Tigran Hamasyan/Arve Henriksen/Eivind Aarset/Jan Bang: Atmosphères Tigran Hamasyan: piano; Arve Henriksen: trumpet; Eivind Aarset: guitar; Jan Bang: electronics and live sampling. This far-reaching double album, recorded and mixed in three days in Lugano, introduces a new quartet with Tigran Hamasyan, Arve Henriksen, Eivind Aarset and Jan Bang. The Norwegians had played in diverse configurations on ECM—Jan Bang on Eivind Aarset’s Dream Logic, for instance, and Bang and Aarset on Arve Henriksen’s Cartography— but with Hamasyan at ...
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Dave King Trio – Asia Avails 2017
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Arlo Hennings
A very exciting new trio from three of the most dynamic jazz artists working today! Led by visionary drummer Dave King, this trio recently made a splash at the Winter JazzFest in New York in January 2016, and are warming up for a new record, set to come out on ECM Records in 2017. Dave King is one of the most in-demand drummers in modern jazz. He has performed in 75 countries on six continents, and has been a member ...
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Soundcloud Names Former Google Exec As CFO
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HypeBot
SoundCloud has named Holly Lim as its first Chief Financial Officer. As a member of the Executive Team, she will split her time between SoundCloud's HQ in Berlin, Germany and its New York office. Holly Lim joins SoundCloud as CFO from Google where she led Google’s Business Operations for the Cloud Platform and Network Operations. Prior to joining Google, Holly held roles at Stetson, Comedy Central, New Line Cinema and Citibank. In this newly created role, Holly will be responsible ...
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Spotify IPO Watch: Blame ≠ Profit
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Although Spotify, like so many streaming companies, blames its lack of substantial profit on its requisite payment of such high royalty rates, the company's woes may in fact stem from a flawed growth strategy and mismanaged finances, as potential investors wait for an IPO which may be a long time coming. Guest Post by Chris Castle on Music Tech Solutions By its own calculation, Spotify dominates the global streaming music market. According to a 2014 speech by Will Page, Spotify’s director of ...
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