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Beats Music Trumps Spotify In Artist Payouts
In terms of subscribers and market share, Beats Music (acquired by Apple as part of its purchase of Beats in May of last year) is way behind Spotify. But there's one area where Beats Music appears to be ahead - the per-stream payout to artists/labels. Guest Post by David Harrell on Digital Audio Insider The first payouts from ...
Instagram Now More Effective At Reaching Fans Than Facebook
It doesn't matter how large a social network is, it's all about how many of your fans you can reach. That's the message from a study by the research company L2 when evaluating Facebook and Instagram. Guest Post by Bobby Owsinski on Music 3.0 Blog It turns out that brands, bands and artists are posting much more content on Instagram these days, mostly ...
What The Music Industry Can Learn From The Beer Industry
Beer sales have been in steady decline for many years with the big brewers coming to terms with changing consumption habits of consumers and the impact of disruptive new models. Sound familiar? Guest Post by Mark Mulligan on Music Industry Blog Over the next few weeks I will be writing a series of posts that illustrate what lessons ...
The United Sates Of Events: America's Top Concert Going Cities By Genre
Ticketing and event platform Eventbrite has released a list of America’s top event-going cities and the United States of Events, a visualization of the event-going trends in America's largest 25 cities. The company leveraged its platform of millions of events to zoom in on attendance themes. Overall Music Ticket Sales 1. Austin2. San Francisco3. ...
RIAA Report Shows Streaming And Vinyl On The Rise In US While Recording Industry Dips
The RIAA has released its official figures for 2014 assessing the music industry's value at $6.97 billion, a 0.47% decline from 2013 valuation of $7 billion. Despite the slight dip of the industry as a whole, growth was charted in specific areas. Digital music grew by $140 million to $4.5 billion, up 3.2% from $4.37 billion ...
Become Your Own Gig Booking Guru
Do you have trouble booking shows? Are you playing for the wrong crowds? Do you send email after email with no response? It's tough being an independent musician – booking your own gigs, doing your own promotion, all while focusing on the growth of your music. Guest Post by Sam Friedman on Sonicbids Blog It's important to understand how bands ...
Jazz this week: Greater St. Louis Jazz Festival, Dizzy Gillespie Afro-Cuban Experience, Jazz Edge Big Band, and more
Check out more events at Jazz Near You: St. Louis. It's looking like the busiest weekend so far this year for live jazz and creative music in St. Louis, with a number of touring bands and musicians passing through town in the next few days, as well as some particularly noteworthy shows from local players. Let's ...
Hall, Pass and Alexander
The late 1960s and early 1970s are often viewed as jazz's skid row—a depressed time when rock, pop and soul came to dominate the music scene and the present and future seemed hopelessly grim for aging improvisers. The truth is not all jazz albums then were pop hybrids or jazz-rock experiments. Three examples of jazz brilliance ...
Fair Trade Music Initiative Seeks To Improve Artist Compensation
The Fair Trade Music Initiative is on a mission to foster a sustainable music ecosystem by giving fans an uninterrupted listening experience that fairly compensates artists through Mad Genius Radio. “It’s a sad but true fact that the first exposure many people had to online music was an illegal, free file-sharing service,” said Eric Neumann, founder ...
Google Launches "YouTube For Artists" Free Toolkit For D.I.Y. Musicians
Music helped make YouTube successful, and now YouTube is helping the people who make music find more success on and off the video streamer. Its all part of a trend we're seeing at Spotify, Pandora and else finding ways to add value to creators that don't include raising payments to them. Google's YouTube has launched YouTube ...
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Bill Bruford And Pete Roth: A One-Of-A-Kind Juxtaposition
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Steve Coleman on Dave Holland
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Isaiah Collier Plays Coltrane: Live at Jazz Alley in Seattle
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John Scofield: Meant To Be
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