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How Music Streaming Is Creating A New Kind Of Superfan
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While superfans have traditionally sought to develop a personal connection with artists, the “shuffle age" of streaming has brought with it the streaming superfan, who instead seeks to continuously broaden their musical knowledge base as a means of increasing their social capital and confidence in their own tastes. Guest Post by Cherie Hu, this first appeared on on Forbes.com The latest statistics on the behavior of streaming subscribers are upending conventional understandings of how and why we consume music. Last week, ...
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Renowned Music Journalist Barry Cleveland Launches The Lodge
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Veteran music journalist and former Guitar Player magazine editor Barry Cleveland has launched The Lodge, a new online music publication featuring in-depth interviews with some of today’s most forward-thinking artists, music reviews, videos, and geeky recording tips and techniques. Cleveland reviews new releases by John McLaughlin, Ben Monder, Sonar, Orion Tango, and Kevin Kastning in his latest post, all of which include audio examples. Cleveland’s debut feature interview is with iconoclastic guitarists Mark Wingfield and Kevin Kastning. who discuss their ...
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Why Music Streaming Isn't Really About The Music
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It may seem strange for companies like YouTube and Amazon to be entering the streaming industry, particularly given how notoriously unprofitable it is, but by offering it bundled with other services, profitability becomes less important than long-term customer loyalty. Guest Post by Alaister Moughan Why Does YouTube need a music streaming service? What’s the point of having music in Amazon Prime? The entrance of YouTube and Amazon into the streaming market is intriguing. Why would they want to enter an unprofitable business, let alone enter ...
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Jimmy Iovine And The Myth Of The Male Music Fan
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In this article, Kelsey Butterworth takes a closer look at Jimmy Iovine's recent and unfortunate bout of mansplaining, an incident which offers some insight into several much larger issues regarding women in the music industry. Guest Post by Kelsey Butterworth, Policy & Communications Intern on Future Of Music Coalition There was a simpler time, not too long ago, when Jimmy Iovine’s most egregious sins were peddling Dr. Dre’s Beats headphones, Weezer’s 2008-2009 oeuvre, and the whiteification of hip-hop. Following an illuminating interview on ...
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The Pros And Cons Of Pandora’s Rdio Purchase
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Pandora's recent procurement of the streaming service Rdio (it's second major acquisition of late, following Ticketfly) could help Pandora to expand its global customer base, but the purchase also brings with it a host of complications, and none of Rdio's customers or licenses. Guest Post by Bobby Owsinski on Music 3.0 The music streaming wars just became a bit more interesting early this week when Pandora agreed to acquire some critical assets of the Rdio streaming service out of bankruptcy for ...
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RIAA CTO David Hughes Responds To Hi-Res Music "Confusion"
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Last week we published a piece by Bobby Oswinski of Music 3.0 describing what he sees as the “confusing" new RIAA campaign to promote Hi-Res music. Today, David Hughes, the Chief Technology Officer for the RIAA responds. Guest post by RIAA Chief Technology Officer David Hughes I understand there might be some confusion about exactly what constitutes ‘high resolution music.’ This confusion is likely because a number of similar sounding terms have emerged to describe music being offered in some form ...
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RIAA Introduces A Hi-Res Music Logo, Plus Some Confusion
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In an effort to get serious about hi-res music, major label lobbying group, the RIAA, has introduced an official hi-res logo. However this new image, along with the RIAA's strange definition of what constitutes hi-res, may simply end up resulting in more confusion. Guest Post by Bobby Owsinski on Music 3.0 While the number of streaming sites that feature hi-res audio is still limited (Tidal and Deezer come to mind), there are plenty of download sites that will happily sell ...
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Streaming Won, But Where’s The Innovation?
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Although music streaming, the most disruptive technologycurrently being used in the industry, is well on its way to becoming the dominant method through which listeners consume music, it has not yet even come close to unlocking its full potential, despite having been around for close to two decades Guest post by Radical.FM founder Thomas McAlevey For a while, it looked like illegal file-sharing and iTunes downloads might be the future of a battered music industry. But streaming is already in the ...
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