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NARAS Messed with the Wrong Latin Jazz Artists...
What started as a plan to simplify the Grammys is now getting really, really complicated. On Tuesday, a group of Latin Jazz artists decided to sue NARAS in New York Supreme Court, a move that follows months of frustration. The suit, filed by artists Bobby Sanabria, Ben Lapidus, Mark Levine and Eugene Marlow, alleges that the ...
Big Machine Says Anti-Piracy is Just as Important as Marketing...
One is all about control, stamping things out, and shutting things down. The other thrives on organic growth, emotional connections, and word-of-mouth. Yet Big Machine Records puts anti-piracy on the same level as marketing in its releases, as evidenced by a recent campaign for Taylor Swift's Speak Now. The anti-piracy policing starts pre-release. “Stopping pre-release leaks ...
Just 8% of Albums Were Sold by Indie Retailers Last Year...
Doesn't that change the debate a little? Despite their impressive cache and importance to real music fans, indie retailers come nowhere near level of tonnage offered by big box retailers, large chains and iTunes. That's according to Nielsen Soundscan, which found that just 8 percent of albums were sold through independent retailers last year, compared to ...
Believe It: Sirius Just Passed 21 Million Subscribers...
Imagine: getting fans to pay a modest amount every month, in exchange for an incredibly huge amount of music. It's the salivating dream of everyone from Spotify to Pandora, though Sirius XM Radio is actually pulling it off—and beating everyoneelse by a longshot. But is Sirius a long-term survivor? For now, there's something to clap about. ...
Why Vinyl Pressing Plants Keep Raising Red Flags...
The simple version is that growing demand for vinyl will result in more capacity to handle that demand. Certainly makes sense over the long-term, though right now, it's just not that simple. For starters, there are a lot of sticky production and expansion issues surrounding the recent surge in vinyl, including a deepsuspicion among pressing plants ...
It's Everywhere: Vinyl Sales Jump 55% in Britain...
This is a cross-Atlantic phenomenon, and now we have more numbers to prove it. According to latest stats from the Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA), sales of vinyl LPs surged 55 percent in the first half of this year, to 168,296 units. Leading the charge was Radiohead, whose King of Limbs shifted 20,771 copies. But the story ...
Oh, It's On: Eventbrite Now Selling in Ticketmaster's Backyard...
If you purchased Warped Tour tickets this year, you probably went through Ticketmaster. Except if you went to the recently-staged event in Ventura, CA, where Eventbrite stealthily injected itself as an experimental ticketing provider. Pretty sneaky, huh? Well, if the strategy is to chip away at the behemoth, it seems to be working. The Ventura gig ...
Ready to Ditch the in-Dash CD Player? Ford Is...
Last time we checked, CDs were still selling in the hundreds of millions per year. But automakers have multi-year product cycles to think about, which is why Ford is now officially ditching the in-dash CD player—just like the tape player before it. “In-car entertainment technology is moving digital more rapidly than almost any other element of ...
Streaming, on-Demand Services Reaching Just 10% of Americans...
This is either the beginning of a huge opportunity, or a really huge buzzkill. According to stats just released by Nielsen, the broad range of streaming and on-demand audio services in the US command an active user base of just 10.2 percent, with near-zero growth. Make no mistake, this is a pre-Spotify study, though it does ...
Breaking: Amy Winehouse Found Dead...
Amy Winehouse was found dead this morning in London, according to information now confirmed by local, MetropolitanPolice. Medics apparently responded to an emergency call during the early-morning hours, only to find the singer unresponsive at her residence. Winehouse may have been pronounced dead just ahead of 4 am, local time. The exact reasons for the death ...
