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Monthly Growth For Key Streaming Services [CHART]
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It's no secret that music streaming is exploding, with Spotify leading the way. But examining the month-to-month trajectory of that growth tells a more nuanced story. Can Apple Music ever catch Spotify, for example? And is it actually possible that Spotify free growth has slowed just enough and Spotify paid growth accelerated just enough, that Spotify ...
Musical.ly Just Sold For $800M, But Its Already Peaked, says Mark Mulligan
Musical.ly may have just sold for an eye-popping $800 million to $1 billion, but the app is already beyond its peak writes MIDiA analyst Mark Mulligan. The reason for the slump, says Mulligan, is that Musical.ly concentrated on building features and not products. By analyst Mark Mulligan of MIDiA and the Music Industry Blog News has ...
StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Russell Gunn's Blackhawk Revisited
Today, let's check out some videos featuring trumpeter and East St. Louis native Russell Gunn, who's bringing his “Blackhawk Revisited" project to St. Louis to perform starting next Wednesday, November 15 through Saturday, November 18 at Jazz at the Bistro. The word “Blackhawk" in this case refers not to the hockey team, the comic-book hero, or ...
Why Songwriters Must Pay Attention To A Trump Tax Reform Plan
In 2006, congress reclassified songwriters income from the sale of a catalog as “capital gains" as opposed to ordinary income, giving artists an important tax break. Under the newly proposed tax reform bill, however, artists are at risk of losing this big break. Guest post from Royalty Exchange Songwriters came dangerously close to losing a key ...
Radio Still Rules Music Discovery Despite Streaming Growth [CHART]
While streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music are growing exponentially, the 2017 edition of Nielsen's Music 360 report found that 49% of people still discover new music on AM and FM broadcast radio. As you can see in the chart after the jump from Statista, that compares 27% who say they discover music on online music services. Music discovery is one of ...
Unbundled: Shifting the Paradigm
The unbundling, whether as single album tracks on iTunes or the distribution and marketing that once only a record label could do, has affected every corner of the music and the music industry. But a new music paradigm is rising out of the wreckage of unbundling, writes Alex Marx. By Alex Marx This is a continuation ...
38% Of The Music Business Now Indie Labels
While it may be a commonly held belief that a choice few major labels dominate the music industry, new data reveals that this simply isn't the case, with indie labels having generated over $6 billion in the past year, and making up roughly 38% of overall music business. Guest post by Bobby Owsinski of Music 3.0 ...
Jazz this week: John Wiese, "Duke Ellington and Film," Weather Forever, and more
This week's calendar of live jazz and creative music in St. Louis features a concert of music written for the movies by one of the greatest composers and bandleaders in jazz; a tribute to two of the most successful bands in jazz/fusion; a brand-new work created by a St. Louis expat for more than 20 local ...
Successfully Releasing Music On A Tight Budget
For independent artists on a budget, the prospect of releasing an album brings with it several significant financial challenges, with little guarantee that you will see a return on your investment, or even break even. Here we look at how to execute a successful release on a budget. Guest post by Patrick McGuire of Landr Figuring ...
Chet Baker: Limelight Sessions
In January 1964, trumpeter Chet Baker was arrested at the Blue Note in Berlin. Earlier, at a local pharmacy, he had foolishly tried to fill prescriptions for Jetrium from two different doctors—a sign of abuse or hoarding with an intent to sell. More commonly known as dextromoramide, Jetrium was a powerful opioid analgesic about three times ...
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