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A New Strategy For Releasing Music
As the music industry continues to change, so too must the strategy for releasing music. With the single once again more important than the album, artists and labels both big and small are having to reevaluate when to make their material available, and in what capacity. Guest post by Bobby Owsinski on Music 3.0 A new strategy ...
How Royalties From SoundExchange Kept Our Band Together
Here keyboardist Justin Wiseman of The Rocketboys reveals how royalties earned from SoundExchange helped revitalize his independent band in its darkest hour, and why other independent artists should make it priority to register with the service. Guest post by Justin Wiseman of The Rocketboys for SoundExchange I’m not saying anything that everybody doesn’t already know — ...
Growth Slows In Italy's Recorded Music Market
While streaming and vinyl were both bright spots for the sector, growth in Italy's music market appears to have stalled, growing by just 0.4% in 2016. Overall, the market was worth €149m in 2016, according to figures collected by accounting firm Deloitte for trade association Federation Industria Musicale Italiana, (FIMI). The decline of physical product, which remains ...
Inside Chuck Berry And Pandora's Genome Project [Glenn Peoples]
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In this piece, Glenn Peoples looks through the lens of Pandora's genome project to take a close at how the style and musical traits of Chuck Berry were copied and disseminated down through generations of musicians. Guest post by Glenn Peoples of Pandora Biologist Richard Dawkins used the term “the selfish gene” in describing how a ...
Bill Introduced That Will Politicize U.S. Copyright Office
Rep. Bob Goodlatte and U.S. congressional leaders have promised copyright reform; and if a new bill just introduced is any indication, that will mean putting more control in the hands of the RIAA and MPAA, says Mike Masnick. By Mike Masnick of Techdirt Well, we all knew this was coming, but Rep. Bob Goodlatte has been passing ...
SoundCloud Gets A Lifeline: $70 Million In Debt Financing
After publicly admitting that it could run out of cash later this year, SoundCloud has received $70 million in debt financing. The company had, for months, tried and failed to raise $100 million in venture financing Struggling music service SoundCloud has received a much needed $70 million loan from Kreos Capital, the Davidson Technology Growth Debt ...
Google To Let Musicians, Others Post Messages Directly Into Their Search Results
Imagine searching Google for “Kanye West" and finding a message purposely posted there by the mercurial musician? Google has begun taking applications for a program it had tested during the U.S. elections that enables this kind of direct in-search posts. Google is taking applications to verify museums, sports teams, sports leagues and movies in the US ...
iHeartRadio Passes 100M Users, Adding 10M In Just 7 Months
iHeartRadio announced this morning that it has more than 100 million registered users, up 10 million from just seven months ago. The milestone comes on the heels of its launch of a new on-demand music services in January. iHeartRadio, iHeartMedia’s digital music, podcasting and live streaming radio service, today announced it had passed 100 million registered ...
How To Run A Successful Crowdfunding Campaign: 10 Tips
Once you've got your music ready to go, the costs of making a record may quickly cause you to turn to crowdfunding, but doing so successfully is no easy task, and will necessitate massive amounts of persistence and hard work. Guest post by Leah Waldo of Berklee College of Music So you’ve got some killer tunes, ...
Welcome To The Post-DIY Music Era [Mark Mulligan]
Business is booming at CD Baby, Bandcamp, Tunecore, Bandzoogle and a host of other service providers for DIY musicians. But from Chance The Rapper to Stormzy and beyond, we are also witnessing a new chapter in artist self-development: The Post-DIY Music Era. By Mark Mulligan of MIDiA I recently took part in the True Music Forum ...
