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Why Music Streaming is More Lucrative for Labels [Jay Frank]
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By Jay Frank of FutureHit.DNA. In the great streaming royalty debate, the focus has been on tiny royalty rates per stream. Artists are up in arms, many are opting out of streaming services, and the noise and debate has been growing louder. Lost in that noise is a voice that is seldom heard: that of the record companies. There’s good reason for that: they’re making more money from streaming and the future looks extremely bright for them. Buried in the ...
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Are Clueless Labels Ruining Mix Platforms Like SoundCloud?
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By Adam Singer of The Future Buzz. [Summary as this is a long post]: SoundCloud’s content ID, implemented due to pressure from record labels, incorrectly flagged one of my uploads as infringing material. As a paying customer and huge fan of SoundCloud I am fearful clueless labels may be senselessly setting a precedent that will destroy the web’s best music platform and community for independent artists. Not to mention cost labels profits, fans and perhaps create a backlash against record ...
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$2.75 Million Later, Music Discovery Platform Exfm to Shut Down
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After four years and $2.75 million in investments, social music discovery platform Exfm is shutting down. As with many other failed music startups, Exfm's founders blame the music industry. "The technical challenges are compounded by the litigious nature of the music industry," the NYC based startup said in a statement, “which means every time we have any meaningful growth, it’s coupled with the immediate attention of the record labels in the form of takedowns and legal emails." It's also a very different ...
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Is the RIAA Planning Another Attack on Musicians' Rights?
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By Mike Masnick of Techdirt. We've written a few times about how the RIAA has been fighting hard to screw over tons of musicians by taking away their “termination rights." Termination rights are a bit confusing, but the simplest way of thinking about them is that after 35 years, if a copyright holder had assigned the copyright to someone else — such as a record label — the artist can simply take them back. There are a few exceptions ...
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7 Decades, 7 Musical Evolutions
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From the Echo Nest Blog. Humankind has had music for as far back as we’re able to define ourselves as such. Some of that music has always been favored by the other cave people, hunters-and-gatherers, farmers, shamans, and whoever else was hanging around. As society changes, our favorite music changes too, and variations in musical memes are passed down through the years. To examine these changes in popular music, The Echo Nest data alchemist Glenn McDonald traced nine distinct audio ...
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Bandpage CEO J Sider on the State of the New Music Industry
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Op-Ed by J Sider, the founder & CEO of BandPage, a leading service for musicians to engage their fans across the web. He's been named to Billboard and Forbes’ 30 Under 30 for the last 3 years. 2013 was a year when the full scale of the Internet became increasingly useful for the music industry. The collected engagement across dedicated music services, including streaming and entertainment platforms, now rivals that of social networks. Hundreds of millions of fans are interacting with musicians through these services ...
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MAXJAZZ Deal with Naxos Begins with Three New Releases
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
After an initial announcement was made back in July of this year, the latest three releases from the St. Louis-based independent label MAXJAZZ are the first to be distributed under a new agreement with Naxos of America. Headquartered near Nashville in Franklin, Tennessee, Naxos is the leading independent distributor of classical music in the U.S. and Canada, and in recent years also has begun to add selected jazz labels to its roster. The first three MAXJAZZ albums that Naxos is ...
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Woody, Kennedy and Me
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Fifty years ago today, only one jazz recording session took place in the U.S. More than six hours after news broke that President Kennedy had been assassinated in Dallas, Woody Herman decided there wasn't much point in worrying about what he couldn't control and moved forward with the second recording session for what would become Woody Herman 1964 (Philips). Engineer Phil Ramone set up the mikes at his A&R Studios in New York and the band recorded four songs—Jazz Hoot, ...
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