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Jazz Drummer Charlie Harrington now with 500 Registered Followers

Source: Charlie Harrington
September 19, 2010

Jazz Drummer Charlie Harrington has achieved the distinction of having 500 registered followers at the leading jazz music website, All About Jazz. This makes him the most followed jazz drummer on the premier site and the second most followed musician on the site behind jazz legend Miles Davis. Charlie's dynamic style and approach continues attract attention and garner accolades from fans and critics alike. All About Jazz is a leading jazz music website for enthusiasts and industry professionals based in ...

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Mashable's Top 10 Twitter Tips for Musicians

Source: HypeBot
September 17, 2010

Twitter is the most useful tool ever created to grow the artist/fan connection. A few, like Amanda Palmer, have even figured out how to make some money using 140 charracters.  Tweeting seems incredible easy. Just type in what you're doing and share it with hordes of adoring fans. But in truth there's a lot more to be done to grow a fanbase and keep them coming back. Mashable writer Brenna Ehrlich took a look at useful ways that bands are ...

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Serve the Fan: Topspin Adds VIP Access

Source: HypeBot
September 16, 2010

A cornerstone of modern music marketing is the understanding that artists have different levels of fans. Some just want a free single; while others will pay well for access to much more. To help maintain and monetize the relationship with an artist's most ardent fans, music marketing platform Topspin has just added Topspin VIP Access. Rather than creating the typical “become a member or not" club offering, artists and marketers using Topspin VIP Access can create an unlimited number of ...

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New Twitter Offers More Opportunities for Music

Source: HypeBot
September 16, 2010

Twitter has been expanding its on the web offering far beyond the boundaries of 144 characters.  But enhancements rolling out to users starting yesterday offer an even richer online experience and include a number of opportunities for artists to share a deeper connection with their followers. A List Of App Partners &  A Video Demo On the new Twitter.com, you'll see the familiar timeline, but underneath each Tweet a summary of information. Click on an individual Tweet and a details ...

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How Technology is Transforming and Challenging the Live Performing Arts: Ben Cameron Speaks at Ted

Source: HypeBot
September 19, 2010

In this TED talk, Ben Cameron, who is Director, Arts, at the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, talks about the state of the live arts and questions whether or not they can compete with the always-on Internet. He is immensely passionate about the professional performing arts and worries that they are being endangered and possibly even dismantled by technology. Within the whirlwind of 3 to 5,000 marketing messages that the typical consumer is battered with every day, he fears that the ...

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Spotify is Now Hitting 10 Million Users. of Which, 500,000 Are Paying...

Source: Digital Music News
September 16, 2010

Is this the kind of ratio that makes sense? Spotify is now approaching 10 million users, of which 500,000 are paying premium amounts. Spotify is planning a shindig in London later this month to toast its milestone. Here's the latest tee-total:

10 million users. 500,000 paying subscribers. 7 European countries. $300 million company valuation. 10 million-plus songs.

The 500,000 figure, shared by Daniel Ek with Music Week in July, specifically referred to higher-end, 10 euro-per-month accounts. A 5 euro-per-month, more ...

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Manufacture & Sell Physical CDs on Indaba!

Source: Michael Ricci
September 14, 2010

Watch a video about selling music on Indaba or read below to get the details about how to manufacture and sell physical CDs on-demand. Our newest feature allows you to sell fully customized physical CDs directly to fans, on-demand. Instead of printing thousands of CDs and paying huge up-front production costs, you can sell CDs on-demand, one-at-time to your fans. For each release, you will be able to set your own ...

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What Press Releases Do That Twitter Can't

Source: We All Make Music
September 14, 2010

As the music business continues to groan and writhe and metamorphose into its newest form, a lot of its former features have begun to fall off like sheaths of dead skin.

Artist development budgets? Gone.

Albums as the primary unit of sale? So 2002.

But press releases?

AdAge's Simon Dumenco posted an article today which supposes that Twitter has killed the press release. As far as Dumenco is concerned, artists (and, by extension, other celebrities and businesses) can simply bypass ...

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