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What Pandora's Genome Can Tell Us About The Sounds Of 2017
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HypeBot
Here we look at breakdown of popular music on Pandora from a genre-based angle and how streaming, in addition to bringing in a majority of the revenue in music, is also reshaping the music itself, and allowing a more diverse group of artists and musical influences to reach listeners. Guest post by Emily Blake of Next Big Sound We’ve known for a while now that in the ragtag family of the music industry, streaming is the breadwinner. Streaming overtook digital ...
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YouTube On Track To Launch "Remix" Streaming Music Service In March
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HypeBot
While YouTube has made multiple attempts to get its users to go the extra mile and buy into its paid subscription services, it has had minimal success with either its Music Key or YouTube Red. That said, the popular video sharing platform has high hopes for its new Remix streaming service, said to be ready to drop this coming March. Guest post by Bobby Owsinski of Music 3.0 YouTube has repeatedly tried to get music fans to buy into its paid ...
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Sound Diplomacy: Improving Music Cities Worldwide
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HypeBot
For a music community to develop and thrive, it needs a city to grow in. So what is about iconic cities like London, Chicago, and Nashville that allow a local music culture to thrive, and how is this culture affected by governments and business? Sound Diplomacy seeks to answer these questions. Guest post by Leticia Trandafir of Landr Music communities don’t exist on their own—they need cities to live. Some cities are famous for their music scenes: London, Chicago, Nashville, ...
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Live Music Today: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
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HypeBot
In this piece Joe Rinaldi reflects on the state of the live music industry, and how the rise of the streaming age and the drop off in retail sales has further increased the necessity of live performance for artists looking to make it in the music industry. Guest post by Joe Rinaldi, Managing Partner at San Diego’s Music Box In recent years, live music has become the backbone of the industry, replacing much of the revenue that was once earned ...
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How Can Record Labels Make Connections With Independent Artists
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HypeBot
In the music business, your actual abilities can often take a back seat to your network and who you know. Whether you're an artist, a label or even a mixing engineer, making industry connections and expanding your network are essential. Here we look at how record labels can better connect with independent artists. Guest post by Emma Miller of Bizzmarkblog & Oranacreative What’s more important: who you know or what you know? In the music business, the first one takes the win, as ...
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The Data-Driven Future Of Media and Entertainment [Sergey Bludov]
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It is by now an accepted fact that the future of the music business, media, and entertainment will likely be data driven, but what the exact implications of this may be for creative industries is, as yet, unclear. In this piece we look at how music, film & TV, and small data could be affected. Guest post by Sergey Bludov, Senior Vice President of Media and Entertainment Practice at DataArt The future will be data-driven. But, for the creative industries, what kind of ...
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Tips from 40+ International Jazz Festival & Club Promoters
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Jazzfuel
As an independent jazz musician, it’s not easy to know how to reach festival and club promoters and – when you do – to know exactly what they are looking for. As always, the best way to get some more insight into this is to ask the promoters themselves! So, I recently put together a super short survey which 40+ promoters around the world were kind enough to take part in and I just wanted to share the results in ...
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How Will Soundtrap Acquisition Change Spotify? The Industry?
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Here we look at the implications of Spotify's recent purchase of Swedish cloud-based collaborative creative space Soundtrap as the streaming giant looks to increase the breadth of its offerings by providing consumers with more than just streaming in advance of it's anticipated IPO. Guest post by Tyler Lyon of SongCast On November 17th, 2017, Spotify announced its intention to acquire Soundtrap. For some context, Soundtrap is a Swedish startup that offers an online music studio which provides a free and ...
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