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SoundCloud Launches Paid Music Subscription Service SoundCloud Go
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[UPDATED] We all knew it was coming. But today's launch of a paid music subscription service, SoundCloud Go, just weeks after closing its final major label deals, arrived sooner than expected; and along with it, broad implications for the entire sector. SoundCloud has launched a paid music subscription service, SoundCloud Go, in the US. Sitting atop SoundCloud's popular free tier of user uploaded content, SoundCloud Go's Spotify-like paid features include access to expanded label catalogs, offline listening and ad-free listening of ...
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5 Innovative Things That Can Only Be Done With Vinyl
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Digital technology certainly has its place but the audio medium of vinyl, in addition to its coveted special sound, provides the user with a number of unique creative opportunities, from clever aesthetic gimmicks to any number of live DJing techniques. Guest Post by Max Adler on Soundfly's Flypaper At the same time as computer technology has exploded, we’ve watched the precipitous decline in music as a physical medium. It’s an obvious and understandable trend from both the consumer and manufacturer perspective. Listeners consume music almost exclusively as ...
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Equity Crowdfunding Of Music Is Ready To Explode
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Although traditional crowdfunding has been around for some time a new kind of crowdfunding, one which allows investors to actually purchase an ownership stake and gives them the opportunity to make a profit from their investment, may be about to take the music industry by storm. Guest post by Richard Brownstein, CFP of The Sound Entrepenuer Equity-based crowdfunding has become an increasingly popular funding option for arts and entertainment entrepreneurs in recent years—and its popularity may be about to explode. The ...
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Google’s YouTube Extorts Artists And Pockets The Profits, Says MusicFIRST Coalition
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Although its shell company Alphabet is raking in massive amounts of revenue, and YouTube is the most popular music service in world, Ted Kalo of the musicFIRST Coalition looks at how he says Google has been able to exploit legal loopholes to avoid paying creators the money they deserve. Guest post by Ted Kalo, Executive Director of the musicFIRST Coalition About $21,329,000,000 in revenue during Q4 and 558,000,000 copyright takedown requests in 2015. Those enormous numbers are Google’s record profit and record disregard for creators’ rights. ...
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Songkick Ratchets Up Live Nation, Ticketmaster Lawsuit
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On the same day that Bandcamp announced it's partnership with Ticketmaster, concert discovery rival Songkick was escalating its legal battle with the ticketing giant. In a new a filing, Songkick is seeking an immediate preliminary injunction against Ticketmaster. A legal dispute over fan club “presales" has taken a twist after ticketing platform Songkick filed a legal motion accusing Live Nation of retaliating against Songkick for their anti-trust lawsuit. Last year, Songkick filed a lawsuit against Live Nation and its subsidiary ...
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Labels Change Their Tune, Adapt To A Music Industry Without Sales
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As labels slowly come to terms with the fact that this is a streaming world, where physical sales are more of lucky bonus than something to relied upon, they are beginning to rethink how their music should be marketed to increase listener engagement. Guest Post by Bobby Owsinski on Music 3.0 Major record labels are are finally coming to grips with the fact that we're going to be living in a streaming world where any sales are a bonus. That means ...
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Be Remarkable And Fans Will Come: Essential Advice From Marketing Guru Seth Godin
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In this piece industry marketing expert Seth Godin illustrates how artists must work to cultivate that about them which is remarkable and unique in order to spark interest and draw in fans, and that if an artist is both talented and worth talking about, the fans will come. Guest Post by D Grant Smith on the Sonicbids Blog In the film Field of Dreams, a farmer in Iowa named Ray is given a strange piece of advice, seemingly from a ...
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A Tsunami Is About The Hit The Music Business And Paul McCartney Is Riding The Wave
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News that Paul McCartney was taking advantage of a US Copyright Act provision that allows songwriters to reclaim their catalog after 56 years has sent shock waves through the music industry. Imagine the impact on the bottom lines over the next decade as UMG, WMG and Sony lose revenue from hit song after hit song as songwriters exercise their rights. Paul McCartney, one of the 10 richest musicians in the world, has launched a bid to reclaim the publishing rights of ...
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