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How Do Indie Music Blogs, Radio Survive? The Harsh Reality
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Over the past few years I’ve watched many indie music blogs and independent radio come and go like the wind. We often hear about supporting the artists, which is exactly what these independent platforms do. The people behind the indie platforms sacrifice their health, families, lifestyle and quite often go into debt struggling to pay for the necessary costs associated with running such platforms. MusicTalks recently ran a poll on twitter which asked the question; ‘What would you do if ...
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Owning Music Is Important - Vinyl Can Help
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With the rise of the digital age, music has ceased to become something we own as much as something we rent. One format, once thought of as obsolete, is shifting this new balance, however. Here we look at why ownership of music is still important, and how vinyl is making it relevant again. Guest post by Mark Henshall of Sound Matters Since the birth of the internet, music has shifted from being something we own to something we rent. This ...
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This May Not End Well... Top UMG Top Suitors Are A Streaming Service and A Private Equity Firm
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If history is any guide, this may not end well... The two top suitors eyeing a $20- $25 billion bid for a 50% stake in Universal Music Group are US investment firm KKR and China’s Tencent Music Entertainment Group. The news comes as UMG parent Vivendi interviews firms to handle the sale. “Sell-side banks are expected to be appointed in March, with a process likely to kick off in the second quarter, according to Reuters. “But informal discussions with potential ...
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Gracenote Partners With Muzooka For Photos, Artist Assets
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Gracenote is now using Muzooka's unified artist asset management platform to help deliver the latest photos and more. Gracenote is a leading provider of music metadata to many top music platforms and electronics devices. With the Muzooka partnership, when an artist or manager updates a photo on the Muzooka platform, that photo will be made available to Gracenote for inclusion across their client platforms and devices. SOCAN and GRAMMYConnect are also among the growing number of music sites and services ...
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Next Big Sound Adds Pandora Streams To Audience Map: Know Where Your Fans Are
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Pandora owned analytics platform Next Big Sound has improved its Audience Map with adding an important metric- where an artist's Pandora streams are coming from. Launched last last November, the chart had previously only highlighted the areas where an artist received Pandora Artist Station Adds over the last 28 days. Station Adds for the last 28 days show growth in an artist's more dedicated fans. Here’s the map of the Artist Station Adds of Yung Booke, an up-and-coming rapper from ...
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2019 Must-Attend Music Conferences
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Music conferences can a be a life changing experience, and the perfect place to educate yourself about the industry, connect with your contemporaries, and make contact with the powers that be. They can also be a huge waste of time however, so we've here provided a short list of must-attend conferences. Guest post by James Shotwell of Haulix Not all music conferences are created equal. Some will change your life, but others are a waste of time. Music conferences are ...
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AMLC Makes Case For A More Independent Mechanical Licensing Collective
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The Music Modernization Act calls for the creation of a Mechanical Licensing Collective to oversee the blanket mechanical licenses that the new law established. So far, two groups ave applied to the Copyright Royalty Board, who will chose the new collective in July. One group has been spearheaded by the National Music Publishers Association is made up of industry heavyweights. Another, the American Mechanical License Collective, brings together a more diverse group, no less versed in the world of music ...
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When Do We Become Uninterested In Discovering New Music?
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While music discovery has, in many ways, become easier than ever, a new study suggests that there's a limited period of time in the average consumer's life when they're actually finding new music, and at a certain age 'musical paralysis' sets in and the discovery ceases. Guest post by Fred Jacobs of Jacobs Media Strategies Believe it or not, I still have friends in the record label community, despite my lurid past as “The Classic Rock guy.” And just about ...
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