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Fans Favor Experiences Over Downloads
A new Nielsen Music 360 report is out revealing, perhaps not unsurprisingly, that fans would rather spend their hard earned cash on live music experiences than digital downloads, as well as several other revealing numbers regarding consumer habits. Guest post by Taylor Mims from Amplify Fans are more willing to spend more money on live music than digital downloads, ...
Abbey Road Adds 3 Promising Music Tech Startups To Incubator
Abbey Road Red, the music tech accelerator based at the iconic Abbey Road Studios has named its latest group of startups. It's the second class for the only music tech incubator in Europe. The latest 3 music tech startups named to the Abbey Road Red accelerator program are: Audio Hunt- an online marketplace and community that ...
How To Make Money From Teaching Music, Even If Your Schedule Is Full
In addition to providing an excellent added source of income, teaching music can go a long way towards helping you to expand your fan base. Here we review five tips that can help you make teaching music work, even with a busy musician's schedule. Guest Post by Gfire Mayo on the TuneCore Blog [Editors Note: This is ...
New Drone Service Delivers On Demand Vinyl. Just Kidding! Sort Of
In this op-ed, CMO Taishi Fukuyama of the company Qrates discusses how is organization is working to capitalize on the recent vinyl boom, and working to push the boundaries of the medium and implications it might have for the future of the music industry. Guest post by Taishi Fukuyama of Qrates Industry observers have been stunned by vinyl’s ...
A Streaming Service's Metamorphosis: Radical.FM Founder Shares His Startup Journey
In this piece traveler and music business entrepreneur Tom McAlevey walks us the through the development of his music streaming startup Radical.FM and how the service has evolved over time to fit the needs of the industry. Guest Post by Tom McAlevey on Radical Indie My life swings between insane adventures and intense business undertakings like a ...
Apple Music Best Practices For Musicians: They Updated, So You Should Too
As a kind of followup to their earlier 'best practices' piece, The Daily Rind takes use through the updated Apple Music iOS 10 interface, with an refresher on the best practices to adopt with this new interface. Guest Post by Tricia Arnold: Senior Director, Retail Marketing on The Orchard's The Daily Rind Last week, Apple released its new ...
Why Would Music Tech Startup BandLab Want To Buy A Stake In Rolling Stone? [Mark Mulligan]
Why would a new model music tech company invest in an old school rock magazine? That's what analyst Mark Mulligan asked on the news that BandLab had bought 49% of Rolling Stone. By Mark Mulligan of MIDiA News emerged yesterday that Singapore music creator community and collaboration platform BandLab bought a 49% stake in Rolling Stone. ...
"Their technologies don't and won't last. Our art - if we do it right - will." - T Bone Burnett's AmericanaFest Keynote
Bashing Spotify and YouTube is easy. But T Bone Burnett did much more than that during his keynote address given at AmericanaFest, the Americana Music Festival & Conference last week in Nashville. He issued a call to arms, while reminding his fellow creators that art is a holy pursuit." T Bone Burnett's keynote address given at AmericanaFest, ...
Consumerless Recovery: Music Revenues Up But More Pain May Be Coming [John Maples]
While the latest news from the music industry certainly seems positive, with eight percent growth in revenues courtesy of streaming, for those who look more closely there may also be some concerning indicators hidden within those numbers. Guest Post by Jon Maples News this week, for once, was positive for the music business. The RIAA released ...
How Many Fans Do You Need To Make A Living In Music?
While reaching a point where you can live off the money made from your music and fans is the end goal for many artists, most musicians are forced to work some kind of additional job in order to fund their creative exploits. Here we look at some numbers regarding exactly how many fans an artist really needs ...


