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5 Ways to Influence Fans to Buy Physical Music
By Nick Moorhead on Sonicbids.com People don’t buy CDs anymore. I still buy a couple of CDs a month, but that’s because I’m a music journalist who's too lazy to steal music online like everyone else (torrents confuse me). When I tell people about the latest CD I picked up at Newbury Comics, they either yawn and change the subject ...
50% Of AM/FM Stations Will Be Gone in 10 Years, Says Top Analyst
Half of all AM/FM broadcast stations will disappear by 2024, according to a new report from top radio analyst Gordon Borrell. The reason? The rise of the so called “digital dashboard" and more choices for in-car listening. “There are other means of sending out audio - you won’t need an FCC license,” says Borrell. “That was one ...
5 Steps to Music Licensing Success
By Tyler Allen on Sonicbids Blog In 2008, many a teenage heart was broken over indie-rock group The Format's break up. Soon after the split, singer Nate Ruess scored huge with a licensing deal for his new band, Fun. This one deal single-handedly took them from underground darlings to worldwide superstars in a matter of months. The key word? Licensing. Let's explore how to get licensed, and how ...
Is Bandcamp's "Subscribe" Feature the Answer to Sustainable Digital Music Consumption, or Has Streaming Won the Race?
By Tyler Hayes, Freelance Writer & Blogger Bandcamp is a website on a mission to provide musicians with the tools necessary to sell their recorded music—both digitally and physically. It's an easy way for artists to give their fans a solid commerce experience and make more money than selling through iTunes or Amazon. Despite all the positive work ...
Count Basie Quartet: 1968
Count Basie's piano is deceiving. We're so used to hearing the pow of his band after one of his abbreviated blues introductions that we forgot just how glorious a player he was. In the following video, we have a chance to hear and see Basie's minimalist swing style develop in the raw, without brass or reeds ...
Guide to Music Crowdfunding - Part 1: Fans with Benefits
By Bryan Kim on Bryan Kim This post is the first in a multi-part series on executing an optimal music crowdfunding campaign, gathered from my hands-on experience at Think Steady Inc. I’ll share a detailed roadmap of best practices, and if you’ll let me, indulge in a few off-the-wall theories on why they work. I’ll be discussing this fuller in ...
Fair Trade Music: Coalition Calls for Better Digital Music Revenue Model
An international coalition of creators has joined forces to call for fairer rules and greater transparency in the distribution of royalties by digital music services. The proposals were presented in a new report on “Fair Compensation for Music Creators in the Digital Age", released by the International Council of Creators of Music (CIAM), with the support ...
Duke Ellington: Making Records
Following my post on Monday detailing films made by RCA and Capitol in the 1940s and '50s to tout the miracle of records and the recording process, Carl Woideck of the University of Oregon sent along a link to a short film produced in June 1937 by Paramount Pictures. Here, Duke Ellington is shown recording Oh ...
A Guide to Getting Gigs (Part 3): How to Promote Your Shows
By Yannick Ilunga on TheJazzSpotlight.com This is the final part of the three-article series A Guide to Getting Gigs. As the title suggests, in What to Do Before Looking for Gigs I talked about what indie musicians should do before trying to get booked. In How to Look for Gigs, on the other hand, I went over some of the tools you can ...
How a Small Startup Increased Ticket Sales by 690% (and You Can Too)
This story from Hootsuite shares how Ticketleap, an event marketing and online ticketer, stood out by empowering employees to share expertise and lend personality to the business. Meet Ticketleap. This tech startup helps its customers sell more tickets to their events. But if you’ve ever created an event through Ticketleap, you know that the team leading the charge ...
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