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CD Baby Artists Earned $100 Million In 2018
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CD Baby has revealed that it's artists earned more than $100 million in 2018. That impressive number includes income from digital distribution (streaming and downloads) along with YouTube, music on Facebook and Instagram, music publishing, sync and direct CD sales. CD Baby represents more than 750,000 artists, 170,000 songwriters, and over 9 million tracks.across 800+ genres. In August, we reported that CD Baby was delivering an average of 2,000 new tracks a day or an estimated 50% of the new ...
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Futures Of Music Coalition Sets 2019 Policy Priorities
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The Future Of Music Coalition (FMC) shared that it is prepping the launch of a new, mobile-optimized website with a focus on making it easier for musicians and fans to take action. The US based musician's advocacy group also shared it's priorities for 2019. From the FMC: Fairness in Music Licensing, Business, and Copyright. This will include finally requiring that AM/FM radio pay musicians (while ensuring that college and community radio stations aren’t unduly burdened). We’ll work to ensure the Music Modernization Act ...
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Online Media's New Model
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In this piece, Daniel Pines looks at how mainstream media is reinventing itself in order to accomodate the rise of independent online content creators, and how this new media model is, and will continue to impact the music industry. Guest post by Daniel Pines from the Berklee College of Music: Music Business Journal Introduction In recent months, major record labels such as Universal Music (UMG) have been scrambling to find and make deals with new multimedia groups such as Mass ...
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Gary Burton on Brad McCuen
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Yesterday, I posted on Eddie “Lockjaw" Davis and Paul Gonsalves's 1968 album Love Calls. I noted that the recording along with two other RCA gems by Davis in the late 1960s were produced by Brad McCuen. Then I provided some bio information about McCuen and mentioned that he had produced eight of vibraphonist Gary Burton's superb albums from that same period. The list includes Duster, a groundbreaking album from 1966. After my post went up, I received an email from ...
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Naxos Acquires Indie Label ARC Music
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After 42 years as an independent World Music label, ARC Music Productions International is now part of Naxos Music Group, following its acquisition by Naxos Rights Europe. Under the terms of the new agreement, Naxos Music Group, which has been distributing the ARC label digitally worldwide and physically in several key markets for some time already, will provide funding to ARC enabling the label to sign more artists, increase its number of releases, and strengthen its worldwide presence. Julia Beyer ...
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Prediction: Spotify To Incubate 'No Records Label Group'
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Chris Castle envisions a 2019 Spotify that adopts a “No Records" model in lieu of a traditional label, allowing them to bask in the glory of having major artists signed without actually having to release any of their music. Guest post by Chris Castle of Music Technology Policy Streaming services like Spotify are faced with a squeeze–how can they be more like Facebook? That means how can they get really get into that Web 2.0 game by getting more people ...
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2018 On-Demand Music Streams +42%, Paid Streams +50% In Q4 [BuzzAngle Music]
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On-demand audio streams set a record high of 534.6 billion in the US in 2018, up 42% over the previous year, according to the BuzzAngle Music Industry Year End Report. But the best news for artists and labels came thanks to 50% growth in streams by paid subscribers. Those 157.4 billion higher paying subscription streams now account for 85% of all on-demand audio, according to the respected music data monitoring service. Competing formats continued their rapid decline. In 2018, ...
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How Music Streamers Could Empower Fans On The Road Toward Sustainability
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While Spotify's recent stock market roller coaster has failed to offer much benefit to artists, Chris Castle here looks at how some interesting moves by streamer Tencent could be adopted by other streaming companies to put fans on a path to greater artist sustainability. Guest post by Chris Castle of Music Tech Solution After the one-time pop of Spotify’s public stock offering cash-out, the new reality is going to be increasingly obvious–we’re stuck for at least a generation with trading ...
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