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What The Music Industry Can Learn From The Beer Industry
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HypeBot
Beer sales have been in steady decline for many years with the big brewers coming to terms with changing consumption habits of consumers and the impact of disruptive new models. Sound familiar? Guest Post by Mark Mulligan on Music Industry Blog Over the next few weeks I will be writing a series of posts that illustrate what lessons the music business can heed from other industries. This is the first of these posts. The dynamics of the beer industry bear remarkable similarity ...
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Fair Trade Music Initiative Launched
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Michael Ricci
New artist-first movement seeks to improve artist compensation at critical time as digital music continues to grow in popularity and influence. Denver, CO—Frustrated with the ad-based, stream-for-free paradigm of digital music, the Fair Trade Music Initiative launched today with a simple premise: music, like all valuable art, should not be free. Musicians deserve to be paid fairly for their work, and fans should be willing to pay a reasonable price for the music they enjoy. It may have made sense, ...
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Fair Trade Music Initiative Seeks To Improve Artist Compensation
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HypeBot
The Fair Trade Music Initiative is on a mission to foster a sustainable music ecosystem by giving fans an uninterrupted listening experience that fairly compensates artists through Mad Genius Radio. “It’s a sad but true fact that the first exposure many people had to online music was an illegal, free file-sharing service,” said Eric Neumann, founder of the Fair Trade Music Initiative and of Mad Genius Radio, a subscription-based streaming music service. “Because of that, many people who have never ...
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ArtistDirect, UlitimateMusic Sold For $1 Million [REPORT]
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In an online music world dominated by Pandora, iTunes and Spotify, it is tough for independent music sites to compete. Now ArtistDirect, one the web's original music destinations, is once again being sold. Ryan Kavanaugh's Relatively, the owners of online music retailer ArtistDirect, has reportedly sealed a deal to sell the company and related assets to an undisclosed buyer for approximately $1 million. According to Deadline Hollywood, the sale will cover the artistdirect.com website, as well as musicandirect.net, ubl.com, ultimatemusic.com, and ...
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Dan Aykroyd & Judy Belushi Announce Creation Of Blues Brothers Records
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Michael Ricci
NEW LABEL DEDICATED TO NURTURING UP & COMING BLUES TALENT TO BE DISTRIBUTED BY BLUE NOTE RECORDS Dan Aykroyd and Judy Belushi have announced the creation of Blues Brothers Records, a new record label dedicated to the development of blues artists that will be distributed by venerable jazz label Blue Note Records, a flagship label of the Capitol Music Group. Aykroyd, aka Elwood Blues, has made a lifelong quest of his support for blues musicians, seeking out new and upcoming ...
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Making The Case For A Freemium Reset
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"Freemium absolutely can work as a model and it has achieved a huge amount already, but it needs recalibrating to ensure it delivers the next stage of market growth in a way that minimizes the risk to the rest of the business." Guest Post by Mark Mulligan on Music Industry Blog Ministry Of Sound’s Lohan Presencer stirred up a hornets’ nest with his impassioned critique of the freemium model at a recent MWC panel. This is one of those rare ...
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Rightsify Gives Rights Holders An Interactive Platform To View And Analyze Industry Data
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Rightsify is bringing key data to rights holders and licensees by way of an easy-to-digest online dashboard that helps them better understand important industry trends to grow their business in the new digital world. Rightsify operates as a cloud based analytical system compatible with any royalty or revenue source. The platform streamlines data compilation, allowing users to sort and filter key data by best-selling songs, countries, stores, artists, writers to royalty sources, etc. With the ability to better understand and analyze the ...
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Spotify To Pay Universal Music Group $1 Billion, According To Leaked Email
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Spotify is locked in difficult talks with the major labels. None are more contentious than with Universal Music, whose CEO has stated publically that it is time to change the music streamer's freemium model. Spotify expects to pay Universal Music $1 billion over the next two years, according to a leaked internal email. That's a number equal to the estimated 2013 global revenue of all streaming music services combined. Universal execs were surprised at Spotify’s $1 billion claim, according to the ...
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