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Pandora Learns From Spotify's Mistakes, Offers Fairer Terms For Songwiters, Publishers
If you think that streaming music treats musicians unfairly, take a look at how it affects songwriters. Pandora has taken a small but significant step towards righting that wrong. By Chris Castle of Music Tech Solutions Music industry licenses that require a music service to pay a royalty to a copyright owner have traditionally included what’s come to ...
Do Freemium Music Services Actually Offer Greater Revenue Per User Than Radio + Sales?
Many in the music industry seem to long for a simpler time when free ad-supported radio was used as a mechanism for selling records, but was the revenue from that model that much greater than the freemium streaming which we see today? Guest Post by David Touve on Rockonomic The purpose of this story is rather simple: ...
Indie Empresario Graham Stairs On The Music Industry, Great Songs And Staring A New Record Label
Here Odario Williams speaks with Graham Stairs about his new digital label imprint known as the Confidence Emperors, what it's place is in the industry, and what he looks for in a song. By Odario Williams Graham Stairs got his start in the business with Intrepid Records where, as their A&R rep, he was responsible for ...
Business Entities And Taxes: A Musician’s Basic Guide
As a band or artist, it can often be smart to establish yourself as a loan-out company or some similar form of corporate entity, as doing so can both shield you from liability and allow for numerous tax write-offs. Guest Post by Justin M. Jacobson, Esq. on the TuneCore Blog [Editors Note: This guide is written by Justin ...
AMA, Record Store Day Partner For Americana Music Month
Americana music is hard to define until you visit Nashville. There, an audience not vested in corporate country, has embraced artists as diverse as Jason Isbell, Lumineers, Darlingside and Ben Folds collectively known as Americana. The Americana Music Association and Record Store Day have announced a partnership to create Americana Music Month, which will take place throughout June 2016. ...
Court Declares Remastered Old Songs Get Brand New Copyright
In a recent piece of bad copyright news, the courts have ruled that pre-1972 music should, in fact, receive a new copyright once it has been remastered, meaning copyright extensions can be piled on ad nauseam, without a track ever falling into the public domain. Guest Post by Mike Masnick on Techdirt Whoo boy. Did not ...
Booking Career-Building Shows: What Many Bands Don't Understand
As and independent artist, your time, energy, and money are all limited, meaning you can't afford to play too many shows that don't in some way help you build your career. Here we look at the sort of characteristics which a career-building show has, and how to recognize a good opportunities. Guest Post by Liam Duncan ...
As on-demand streaming loses its novelty, music needs personality
With the exception of the occasional flashy exclusive, its harder for the average streaming music users to tell the services apart. So, to combat user fatigue and spur growth, Slacker Radio has added both curation and personality; and CEO Duncan Orrell-Jones makes a strong case that most users want more than just continuous music. Guest post by Duncan Orrell-Jones, ...
Understanding Streaming Music Income
In this piece we look at the details of streaming music royalties, how they're determined, and why the initial parameters which we once used even as recently as in the time of downloading, no longer apply in the streaming era. Guest Post by Bobby Owsinski of Music 3.0 In Part 3 on my series on streaming music royalties, ...
When Rappers Are Affected By White Fragility [Talib Kweli Greene]
In this essay, Talib Kweli Greene takes on the complex issue of how 'white fragility' affects rappers, as he walks us through Twitter battles and unfounded accusations of racism from fellow hip-hop artists Remedy and Diabolic. Guest post by Talib Kweli Greene Let’s deal with the facts. Hip-hop was primarily created by black and Latinx youth living ...
