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Sofar Sounds Raises Huge Amount Of Money, But Artists Don’t See Much Of It
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Sofar Sounds, a service which specializes in setting up artists with shows, particular house concerts, has had a pretty successful financial track record, putting on over 600 shows a month and bringing in an impressive amount of revenue- unfortunately, not much of that money seems to be ending up in the pockets of the actual musicians. Guest post by Bobby Owsinski of Music 3.0 What if you played a gig and lot of people showed up, paid good money to ...
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Measuring Music’s Timelessness: A Tricky Business
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Whether expressed or not, a latent goal of most musicians is to create music that endures, and hopefully has life beyond its creator. But just how does one measure music's timelessness? Here Patrick McGuire explore the complexities in defining music's longevity. Guest post by Patrick McGuire from the TuneCore Blog If you make music for a living or even just as a hobby, you might not know it, but a goal tucked deep in your mind is to create work ...
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Dublin Vinyl Adds Direct-To-Fan Service For Artists, Labels
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Record pressing plant Dublin Vinyl has launched a direct-to-fan service for independent labels and artists. Dublin Vinyl now offers vinyl manufacturing right through to fulfillment, has begun accepting orders directly from artist or label’s e-commerce sites including Bandcamp, Shopify, Woocommerce and Big Cartel, and shipping them directly EU based fans. Commenting on the news, Dublin Vinyl Managing Director, Hugh Scully said: “We’re always looking for new ways to help our clients and make the vinyl process as easy and cost-effective ...
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Why Apple Just Killed Off iTunes [Mark Mulligan]
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Yesterday, Apple announced the end of iTunes on the Mac and its replacement with three separate apps for music, podcasts and TV. The reason given was feature bloat which slows performance. But top analyst Mark Mulligan says that its really part of “the great unbundling" which has been going on across other digital services for years. By Mark Mulligan of MIDiA from his Music Industry blog Apple has announced that it is closing iTunes and replacing it with three new ...
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Apple Set To Kill iTunes Today, New iPod Touch Unveiled
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Apple is set to announce the end of iTunes today. Ironically, the company unveiled a new iPod Touch last week, the newest iteration of the hardware that made it so easy to put a whopping 1000 iTunes tracks in your pocket. During Tim Cook's keynote at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose, California today June 6th, Apple is set to replace iTunes with standalone music, television and podcast apps, reports Bloomberg. Apple is re-positioning itself as a next ...
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Eventbrite President Andrew Dreskin Steps Down
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Eventbrite President Andrew Dreskin is exiting his leadership role at the independent ticketer. “After more than a decade at Ticketfly, two acquisitions, and all told almost 20 years running ticketing companies, it feels like the right time for me to transition into a different role,” Dreskin told Billboard’s Dave Brooks, who first reported his exit. In a statement to CelebrityAccess, a spokesperson for Eventbrite said Dreskin plans to transition into an advisory role at the company as part of a ...
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Monetising Fandom: How ByteDance Is Poised To Lead A Streaming Paradigm Shift [Mark Mulligan]
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Music subscriptions are going a great job of monetising music consumption, says MIDiA analyst Mark Mulligan, but the next phase is monetise music fandom. “In short," he says, “streaming needs to figure out how to bring heart and soul back to music. By Mark Mulligan of MIDiA from his Music Industry blog Streaming music is approaching a decision point. Right now, music subscriptions are doing a fantastic job of monetising consumption, but next we need to learn how to monetise ...
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It's No Longer A Major Label World
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If there was still any doubt in your mind that you didn't need to be signed to a major label in order to succeed in the music industry, wonder no longer, as new data reveals just how much of market share indies have gained in recent years. Guest post by Bobby Owsinski of Music 3.0 If you thought that you needed to sign with a major record label or publisher in order to have success, that’s no longer true and ...
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