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Tunecore's Price Takes On Silverman's Conclusions
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Earlier this week, industry vet Tom Silverman shared an analysis of Nielson numbers shows the small number of artists that had broken through the 10,000 unit sales mark in the-post internet era. (List of artists here.) Now, Tunecore CEO Jeff Price, a long time critic of Nielson, has fired back attacking Silverman for using only “official" album sales numbers to measure success.
“The distressing part for me about this is based on Tommy's statements, if an artists' release is ...
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Live Nation May Sell Venues to AEG
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HypeBot
Live Nation has signaled that they may be willing to sell a portion of their venues at favorable terms to their chief rival, AEG Live in a bid to get the Justice Department to sign off on their proposed merger with Ticketmaster.
While the sale of Live Nation's venues to their chief rival may seem like an unusual move, it may serve two purposes; offering a concession to help convince federal regulators at the Justice Department to approve the merger ...Continue Reading
Jam in the Dam Updates: Packages, Music, More
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JamBase
JAM IN THE DAM 2010 UPDATES INCLUDE ADDITIONAL MUSIC, NEW PACKAGES, MORE
JitD 2007 - Amsterdam by Sam Friedman Jam in the Dam is now just two months away so there's still time to plan your trip. Airfares are about the same as they've been since fall and tickets, while selling well, are also still available. Europe sales are ahead of any year to date, and the JitD folks are expecting them to make up nearly 40% of the crowd. ...
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Digital Release Date Dilemmas
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This guest post comes from Clyde Smith who recently celebrated both his 50th birthday and the 5th anniversary of the founding of ProHipHop: Business News. He also publishes Hip Hop Press: Releases and has slowly begun blogging at Cultural Research: Library Innovation Blog. .
The move to digital album releases has raised some problems for me related to release dates.
I feel the initial release is whenever a complete copy of the album is released, whether a digital ...
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Notes from the Net: Miles in Montreal; the Persistence of "Audiophoolery"; Plus News, Reviews, Interviews, and More
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Here's the latest compilation of assorted news briefs and links related to jazz, improvisation, and creative music in St. Louis, including news of musicians originally from the Gateway City, recent visitors, and coming attractions, plus assorted other items of interest:* In this week's Miles Davis-related news, the museum exhibit in Paris devoted to the trumpeter is closing, but will be reborn on this side of the Atlantic in April as “We Want Miles" at the Montreal Museum of ...
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Red Cat Publicity - Five Years and Running Strong
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Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
Here we are in January 2010 celebrating the 5th Anniversary of Red Cat Publicity! Part of that celebration is starting this blog so I can keep you, and myself, up to date on what will be happening in the realm of Red Cat over the next few years, and what's happening now in the life of the man with four names - me - Jason Paul Harman Byrne. A side benefit might be a sharpening up of my writing chops, ...
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Don't Confuse the "Music Industry" with the "Record Industry"
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"The term 'music industry' is a misnomer. In reality the 'music industry' is not one industry, it is several independent industries. This is an important distinction because if we say that there is a “crisis in the music industry" it suggests an equal amount of misfortune for everyone (musicians, the recording industry, the live-music industry, Internet radio, etc.) and in fact this not true. Misuse of the term 'music industry' distorts the reality of the situation.“
- Chris Castiglione on ...
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