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Could This Company Be The Last To Distribute CDs?
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While the CD has hung on longer than some might have guessed, it's decline has been steady. That said, some are still turning a profit from this outdated form of music. Here we look at Alliance Entertainment, the largest wholesaler of physical music in the US. Guest post Bobby Owsinski of Music 3.0 The CD is fading away, not as quickly as was predicted, but the long slow decline is occurring nonetheless. Streaming is the root cause, of course, and ...
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Music Industry In UK Booms As Brexit Disaster Looms
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A British Phonographic Industry report shows that British music exports are now at their highest level in almost two decades. According to the BPI, UK labels generated revenues of £408.4 million in 2017, up by 12% over the previous year. The strong performance contributes to more than £5 billion in revenue generated by the sector since 2000. Taking into account payments made overseas, UK labels generated a net £200 million balance of payments surplus for the UK economy in 2017, up by ...
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How Streaming Is Changing Shape of Music [Mark Mulligan] Part 1
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MUST READ: This is the first of two thought pieces by MIDiA analyst Mark Mulligan on how streaming is reshaping music from creation to consumption. By Mark Mulligan of MIDiA and the Music Industry Blog The streaming era has arrived in the music business, but the music business has not yet fully arrived in the streaming era. Labels, publishers, artists, songwriters and managers are all feeling – to differing degrees – the revenue impact of a booming streaming sector. However, ...
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14 Ways To Maintain Mental Health As A Struggling Artist
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It's no secret that being a musician, or indeed working as an artist in any creative field of goes hand in hand with depression, anxiety, and other mental health struggles. Here we look at fourteen steps artists can take to keep their mental health in check. Guest post by indie musician Dave Cavalier Art is hard. If it was easy we wouldn’t love it this much. For those of us who dared to decide that our dreams wouldn’t involve a corner ...
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What Netflix Can Teach Us About Font Psychology [Infographic]
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HypeBot
Whether you're in the music business or some other realm of the entertainment industry, the power of fonts cannot be overstated when it comes to marketing. Here we look some valuable lessons in font psychology learned from video streaming giant Netflix. Guest post by Bobby Owsinski of Music 3.0 Fonts are a big part of our lives. Every piece of marketing that you’ll ever release probably has or will have at least a couple of fonts, so instead of just ...
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No Old Wine In New Bottles: Remastering Does Mean New Sound Recording Copyright, says 9th Circuit
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The remastering of tracks has long created controversy in the music industry over whether these revampings necessitate the creation of a fresh copyright- a problematic notion to say the least. The 9th Circuit Court, however has decided a new coat of paint doesn't change things all that much. Guest post by Stephen Carlisle of NOVA Southeastern University On August 20, 2018, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower court ruling that basic digital remastering of pre-1972 sound recordings created a ...
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A lyrical legacy endures
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Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
Johnny Mercer's imprint is all over The Great American Songbook. He's best known for writing the lyrics to more than a thousand songs- for Broadway, for Tin Pan Alley, for film, and for pop singers. Johnny Mercer's imprint also is all over Savannah, GA., the verdant and historic city where he was born. Any place live music is performed, Mercer's material seeps out at listeners. You might even hear “Moon River" a few times a night at a piano bar ...
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Sony, Universal Earn $500K Every Hour From Streaming
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While streaming is often slammed for how little money it brings in, it turns out that this is more an issue for the artists, and the major companies behind the music like Sony and Universal are pulling down plenty of cash from streaming. Guest post by Bobby Owsinski of Music 3.0 The naysayers have always been so negative on the fraction of a cent payout that comes from a music stream, but it’s never been so evident that those small ...
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