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Tunecore Quarterly Payments To Artists Up 24% To $44 Million Driven By Dramatic Streaming Growth

Source: HypeBot
August 22, 2016

TuneCore payments to artists rose 24% to $44 million last quarter over the same quarter last year. Since TuneCore launched in 2006, their artists have earned $733 million from 36.5 billion downloads and streams. TuneCore independent artists earned $44 million in the second quarter of this year. That's a 24% increase from the second quarter of 2015. Streaming Explodes Much of the growth is coming from an explosive 82% increase in streaming: TIDAL (+157%), Amazon Music (+112%) and Spotify (+89%). Interesting there ...

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DOJ vs. ASCAP

Source: HypeBot
August 17, 2016

In this piece, Stephen Carlisle reviews how the new consent decree verdict handed down by the Department of Justice shifts the status quo for licensing for the worse, and looks at some steps that could potentially be taken in order for it to be amended. Guest Post by Stephen Carlisle on Nova Southeastern University Seems like very recently, June 24, 2016 to be exact, I posted about how the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that despite there being no ...

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Why Apple's Removal Of The Audio Jack From The iPhone Would Be A Terrible Idea

Source: HypeBot
August 17, 2016

The tech rumor mill recently dropped the news that, on the latest model of iPhone, Apple my be planning to eschew the conventional analog heaphone jack in favor of the iPhone Lightning connection, something which would likely end up hurting consumers in the long run. Guest Post by Mike Masnick on Techdirt It's been rumored for months now that the next iPhone will be removing the standard analog headphone jack— the same jack that's existed on portable audio devices for ...

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More Changes In The Landscape Of Physical Music Retail

Source: HypeBot
August 16, 2016

While there's no question that, when it comes to recorded music, the world of retail isn't what it was, it isn't all doom and gloom. Here we look at how selling music has changed, and the state of the music retail industry today. Guest Post by Ben Liemer, National Sales Director/Physical of The Orchard from The Daily Rind You’ve heard it before: the only constant in life is change. Adapt and survive. Darwinian selection has always been an active force in the music business ...

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Matthew Shipp Trio’s “Piano Song” To Be Released January 2017

Source: All About Jazz
August 12, 2016

Henry Rollins first introduced me to the music of Matthew Shipp. Thirsty Ear was marketing and distributing his label 2.13.61 Records for which Shipp was a recording artist. This was in the mid 90’s and the NY jazz scene was something I mostly read about in the papers. Though Henry spoke with articulate passion about Shipp’s energy, drive and heightened musicianship, it was not until I attended a concert that I fully understood his power, fury and otherworldly vision. Shipp’s ...

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Entrepreneurship In Music: Mideast Tunes

Source: HypeBot
August 12, 2016

Here Mideast Tunes founder and civil rights activist Esra'a Al-Shafei discusses her new music streaming platform and its goal of promoting social change as well as the work of underground artists from the Middle East and North Africa. Guest Post by Jeremy Young on Soundfly's Flypaper “We want our humanity and our futures in our own hands and we use the internet and other forms of technology to fight for those rights." — Esra’a Al-Shafei Mideast Tunes is a music streaming platform promoting social ...

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Bassist / Composer / Producer / Educator Robert Hurst Signs With Dot Time Records!

Source: Scott Thompson Public Relations
August 11, 2016

Bassist/Composer/Producer/Educator ROBERT HURST Signs With Dot Time Records! New Release, Early 2017 BoB's Black Current Jam DOT TIME RECORDS ANNOUNCES SIGNING OF MULTI-AWARD WINNING BASSIST, ROBERT HURST! Dot Time Records is pleased to announce the signing of multiple Grammy and Emmy Award bassist, Robert Hurst. Robert, a Detroit native, has enjoyed a stellar career spanning over 30 years, and is a well respected and highly recognized composer, electric and acoustic bassist, educator, and recording ...

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Restaurant, Bar, Venue Lobbyists Stupidly Applaud DOJ Decision

Source: HypeBot
August 11, 2016

David Lowery examines how such an unpopular decision as the 100% licensing decree handed down by the Department of Justice came to pass with a little help from Google, and how it could negatively impact the ability of venues to license music. By musician and artist advocate David Lowery of The Trichordist (Performing rights organizations or PROs are unions of songwriters. They are also licensing organizations that peform a valuable service to the public. They allow a quick way for any business ...

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