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Reverbnation Develops Venue Submission Dashboard for D.I.Y. Gig Booking

Source: HypeBot
March 16, 2012

After reviewing BandWagon's gig booking site, I got a demonstration of ReverbNation's new Submission Dashboard designed to facilitate gig booking for artists and venues using ReverbNation's services. It too is a well-designed product that benefits from the company's critical mass of artists and venues already in the system. It's one of those tools that adds additional value to an already useful toolkit. I spoke with Howard Han, VP and General Manager, Reverb Live at ReverbNation based in New York. Mr. ...

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Derrick N. Ashong & Soulfege’s "Million Free Download Campaign" Nets Over 25,000 Downloads In The First Month

Source: Carol Green, Redwood Entertainment
March 14, 2012

New York, NY: Ghana-born Derrick N. Ashong & Soulfège's Million Download Campaign has accomplished astonishing results in the first month of its existence. A global outreach initiative designed to broaden the band's movement of empowerment, the Million Download Campaign's mission is to offer a million free downloads of songs and remixes from Derrick N. Ashong & Soulfège's recently released and highly successful CD, AFropolitan, by Christmas of 2012. “We've always said that what we do is about more than music, ...

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10 Top Tips for Contacting Music Websites

Source: HypeBot
March 13, 2012

Music websites and magazines receive ridiculous amounts of emails from bands looking to get journalists to write about their band! Therefore, if you are unable to afford big money bribes, then you need to follow these simple guidelines for contacting music websites to improve your chances of being featured. 1) Local and national music blogs and websites Research and build a list of contacts in the region where you live. Regional websites are more eager to help good local bands ...

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Song Surgeon 3.0 for Mac Introduces Distortion Free, Pitch and Tempo Change Audio Software to the Broad Based Consumer Market

Source: Jim Todd
March 10, 2012

Doylestown, PA: Todd, Michael & James, Inc (TMJ) released today, Song Surgeon Version 3 for Mac, its “best in class" audio software for pitch (key) and tempo change. Song Surgeon provides high quality, distortion free audio for use by musicians, transcribers, translators, dance studios, DJ's, and churches (for music worship). Previously the software was available only for Window's machines. Song Surgeon Version 3 features not one, but two separate algorithms for pitch and tempo change. It yields unparalleled quality, until ...

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Amazon Backed Songza Launches 'Music Concierge' Songs for Every Mood

Source: HypeBot
March 6, 2012

Amazon funded streaming music service Songza today launched Music Concierge. The free ad-supported service matches a user's day, time, device and context to create a-curated playlist designed to cure “stale iPod syndrome" After clicking through a few simple options that identify things like the time of day, context (at work?) and your musical preferences (jazz, indie, etc.), the music starts. Player controls include Pandora-like features (skip, thumbs up or down) that adjust the offering. Unlike Pandora, which can take some ...

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MOG and the Coming Consolidation in Music Tech

Source: HypeBot
March 1, 2012

Is MOG for sale? Despite conflicting reports, the answer is probably yes with the most likely suitor Rhapsody, who recently purchased Napster. But what matters much more is that we're almost certainly watching the early stages of consolidation in music streaming and much of music tech. Within music streaming, the important consolidation trends to look for include: Who will be left standing and why? Will Apple or Amazon add music streaming? How will labels treat the remaining competitors when it's ...

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A Bright Future for Music Tech: Lessons Learned at SF Musictech X

Source: HypeBot
February 17, 2012

The number ten is quite a symbolic number, representing the start of a whole new order of numbers, and the culmination of the numbers that came before it. The number ten also implies the completeness of order. Last Monday at the Kabuki Hotel in San Francisco, the SF MusicTech Summit celebrated its tenth summit. With what has become arguably the most influential gathering of music technologists on the West Coast, came a degree of symbolism that the number ten represents; ...

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CDBaby: iTunes Still Accounts for 77.4% of Digital Revenues...

Source: Digital Music News
February 9, 2012

We're guessing rivals like Tunecore have similar ratios, and this probably extends beyond the unsigned and indie space. According to a year-2011 revenue analysis shared by the company, CDBaby artists pulled a massive 77.4 percent of digital revenues from the iTunes Store, on an aggregated basis. AmazonMP3 was a distant second, but still a substantial 10.5 percent of the total.

Here's the pie, as constructed by CD Baby. Physical CDs are a separate bucket.

So what about ...

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