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SoundCloud Revenues Up 80%, Tops $100 Million
SoundCloud, the Berlin-based music streaming platform, made good on its promise to bring in more than $100 million for the 2017 calendar year, according a filing with UK Companies House this week. According to the filing, SoundCloud’s global revenues hit $102M in 2017. That’s an increase of 80% over the previous year. The figure also accounts ...
SoundRoyalties Opens Nashville Office, Networking Space
Sound Royalties has added a Nashville location. To oversee the expansion of the music industry specialty finance firm, Sound Royalties’ CEO and Founder Alex Heiche is now operating full time out of Nashville. The company will also host events and gatherings in its Nashville space, independently as well as in concert with other music organizations. The ...
Is Printing, Selling Physical CDs Still Worth It?
While there is a lot of nostalgia surrounding the CDs and CD buying culture, the manufacturing costs and associated complexities of creating them leave a lot of more contemporary artists wondering if, in the digital age, CDs are really worth it at all. Guest post by Brad Pack of Soundfly's Flypaper When was the last time ...
Harry Edison: The Swinger
Trumpeter Harry “Sweets" Edison is perhaps best known for providing chrome-tinged obbligatos behind jazz-pop singers. His muted trumpet can be heard playing tightly wound touches on the albums of singers such as Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald. When they paused between verses, arrangers had Edison fill the space. At times, he mirrored the vocalist's phrasing before ...
Michel Legrand (1932-2019)
Michel Legrand, a French pianist who began writing arrangements for jazz musicians in the early 1950s before becoming one of the new sophisticated sentimentalists of American film in the 1960s and beyond as a composer, arranger and conductor, died on January 26. He was 86. Legraand's jazz recordings began with Dizzy Gillespie and the Paris Operatic ...
Michel Legrand, 1932-2019
Michel Legrand, the pianist, arranger and prolific composer of film scores, died today at his home in France. He was 86. Dozens of Legrand’s melodies became popular hits, among them “The Windmills OfYour Mind,” “What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life?” and “Watch What Happens.” The wide range of performers who collaborated with him ...
Why We Need More (Quality) Music Journalism
In this piece James Shotwell argues that, as music industry becomes increasingly crowded with artists, the need for more music journalists grows, and that social media's ability to fill this void is sorely lacking in the quality department. Guest post by James Shotwell of Haulix Music journalism matters more now than ever before. At no other ...
Music Distribution: Upfront Revenue vs. Revenue Sharing
Once you've finished creating your music, its time to develop a strategy for how you want to release it. With so many digital distributors out, it picking one can be a difficult choice, something made more complicated by the decision of whether you want to pay an upfront fee, or allow the distributor to share your ...
Royalty Exchange Passes $50 Million Paid Milestone
Royalty Exchange announced this week that it had paid out over $50 million from 535 royalty transactions in the three years since the company relaunched in 2016. 255 investors participated in the funding. Royalty Exchange is touting the marketplace as a funding source for the musical middle class with 52% of the catalogs listed earning $20k ...
StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Introducing Jaimie Branch
This week, let's take a look at some videos featuring trumpeter Jaimie Branch, who will be making her St. Louis debut in a concert with cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm and drummer Ståle Liavik Solberg to be presented by New Music Circle on Saturday, February 9 at The Stage at KDHX. Branch, who's 34 years old, grew up ...
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