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SoundExchange Launches Free 20 Million Song Search Database
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From music streamers lawsuits to takedowns on iTunes, song identification has become a major issue. To help solve the problem, SoundExchange, with the backing of the RIAA, has launched free ISRC Search Site that includes 20 million songs. SoundExchange has debuted its new ISRC Search Site, a website designed to allow users with access to SoundExchange's database of sound recording information. The free service includes access to almost 20 million ISRCs reported to SoundExchange, allowing for the fast and accurate ...
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Bands And Brands: What Marketers Need To Know About Music Partnerships
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For artists, being heard and standing out from the crowd can be a challenge, but by partnering with brands, artists are able to reach a much broader potential fanbase, provided the marketers in question know what their doing and can avoid damaging the image of both the band and the brand itself. Guest Post by Lukas Nieuwenhuijsen of WeTransfer It’s hard to stand out as a musical artist today. Even the biggest acts work hard to stay relevant and to constantly challenge themselves ...
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Last Days Of Free SoundCloud? Allison Moore Hired As Chief Revenue Officer As Paid Launch Nears
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SoundCloud has attracted millions of users—musicians and fans—with a seemingly unlimited treasure trove of tracks. But new deals with the major labels require monetization and recent filings point to a company bleeding cash at alarming rate. Now an experienced digital executive has been hired to sort out the mess. Music streaming service SoundCloud is pushing forward with its monetization plans and has announced that digital veteran Allison Moore has joined the company as Chief Revenue Officer. She will be based out ...
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Streaming Could End Piracy, If Only The Music Business Would Let It
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While windowing releases may be an effective marketing ploy for high profile artists like Adele and Kanye, such tactics serve to drive listeners to piracy, in a time when the music industry should be embracing- and improving on- streaming instead. Guest Post by Bryce Clemmer, Co-founder and CEO of Vadio. In many ways, Kanye West’s release of his album/conceptual art project “The Life of Pablo” showed that he’s a groundbreaking artist when it comes to his thinking in the digital space. ...
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PledgeMusic Acquires Noisetrade, Set.fm
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By expanding on the promise of the now all-but-defunct Topspin D2F platform with an added dash of Kickstarter, PledgeMusic has built one of the new music industry's most respected and effective platforms. Today they broadened their reach with two acquisitions that also serve the indie and DIY music community. PledgeMusic today announced two acquisition NoiseTrade and Set.fm. The announcement comes a few weeks after investor Joshua Sason took a major position in PledgeMusic through his company Magna. Details of the acquisitions were not ...
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Independent Music Community Gains An Important Voice On SoundExchange Board At A Crucial Time
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Last week, the independent music community gained in important voice at SoundExchange. Legal, regulatory and and congressional actions, direct deals and thorny issues like small webcaster rates make this a difficult and important time at SoundExchange. SoundExchange has appointed indie label veteran Richard James Burgess, the CEO of A2IM (the American Association of Independent Music) to its Board of Directors. Burgess will fill the position previously held by Molly Neuman. The SoundExchange Board of Directors is comprised of 18 individuals, ...
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The Music Startup Meltdown - And it’s going to get worse before it gets any better…
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After a strong year for music tech investments in 2015, things have gotten much tougher for music and music tech startups. The money tree is bearing less fruit and the sexiness of music startups has faded. But its going to get even worse before it gets any better, says Cortney Harding. By music industry and music tech consultant Cortney Harding, author of How We Listen Now: Essays and Conversations About Music and Technology. In Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises,” Mike Campbell is ...
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How Blockchain Could Transform The Music Industry - Part 2 [Benji Rogers]
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The business of royalty collection and artist rights is in desperate need of an overhaul, one which blockchain tech's digital “wrapper" could potentially provide. Here Benji Rogers details what the implementation of this technology would look like and who it would benefit. Guest Post by Benji Rogers on Rethink Music A new “fair trade” music format could clean up the murky world of rights and royalties This is an update to “How the Blockchain and VR Can Change the Music ...
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