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Time Travel, Teleportation And Music Publishing Metadata
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This article looks at the value of metadata, as well as the challenge of keeping it accurate and up-to-date over time, as ownership and rights can easily change from year to year, as well the difficulties of dealing with geographical shifts. Guest Post by Annie Lin If you work in music publishing, you've probably heard a lot about metadata this year. When people discuss music publishing metadata, the debate typically focuses on the availability and quality of ownership information, or the ...
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5 Words Which Will Define The Next 10 Years Of Music
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Looking ahead to the future of the music business, this article lays out the five words which are most likely to define the coming ten years of music technology, creation, and consumption. Guest Post by Scott Parsons on Landr The only guarantee is change. Music is more contested right now than a Steph Curry layup. The same words keep coming up in discussion: Streaming, playlists, distribution, sampling, platforms, tech. Along with every other subject that’s been picked apart until it’s unrecognizable. But if ...
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The Brexit's Impact On The Global Music Economy
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The surprise Brexit vote is guaranteed to have far-reaching economic effects in a variety of areas, and the music industry is by no means immune. Here we examine some of the ways those operating in the music business can expect to feel the Brexit's impact. Guest Post by Dre Dimura on Soundfly's Flypaper With the aftershocks of the United Kingdom’s vote to exit the European Union still being felt around the world, it is unclear how Britain’s historic “Leave” vote ...
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Can Tokens Usher In A New Era of Price Flexibility for Artists?
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Could bitcoin and tokens be way for artists to better control the sales of their work? In this piece, Adam Levine, Founder & CEO at Tokenly, explains that embracing new technology can help artists forge deeper connections with fans and make money based on what they think their work is worth. By Adam Levine, Founder & CEO of Tokenly Throughout the history of recorded music, the cost purchasing songs has remained remarkably inflexible. The cost of vinyl records, cassettes, and CDs ...
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YouTube Past And Present: 10 Things We Learned At VidCon
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At this year's VidCon, a rapidly growing annual conference for the online video community, we learned about the state of YouTube, and where we can expect the video sharing site and its content to go in the future. Guest Post by Chris Robley on CD Baby's DIY Musician Blog VidCon, the annual conference for lovers of online video, was already a huge deal (last year’s attendance was 16k), but it seems to be growing in size and impact every year. The 2016 ...
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Twice As Many People Listen To Music On Amazon Prime Than On Apple Music, Spotify Premium Combined
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Amazon has always been an underappreciated player. First it became the only alternative to the iTunes download store. More recently, its quietly become a powerful player in streaming. But few would have predicted the dominate position revealed by a new survey. 16% of respondents listened to music on Amazon Prime Music in May 2016, according to a new Cowan survey. That puts Prime Music, which comes as part of Amazon's Prime package, as the second most used paid music service, behind ...
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Crowdfunding Pioneer, ArtistShare, Launches New Website For Creative Community
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ArtistShare, the Internet’s premier “crowd-funding” platform, provides artists with the opportunity to have fans directly fund and support creative efforts in exchange for exclusive access to the creative process. After 29 Grammy nominations and 10 Grammy wins, ArtistShare is extending their expertise and innovative spirit to the global creative community with FanFunded.com. FanFunded is a new platform open to all types of creators, including but not limited to, art, music, film, technology, theater and much more. FanFunded offers a unique ...
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Is The Great Artist Revolt Imminent?
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Is an artist revolution imminent? As major labels renegotiate with YouTube, the likelihood of a deal which benefits artists being struck seems unlikely, raising the question of what will happen if said negotiations do indeed fail. Guest post by Chris Castle of Music Tech Solutions As I noted in a recent Huffington Post blog, major labels are in the middle of renegotiations with YouTube, Google’s subsidiary and the world’s dominant video search engine. These deals are relatively short term and are ...
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