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4 Mentalities That Will Kill Your Music Career
The life of an independent musician is a stressful one, and in order to make your career a success, it's important to avoid slipping into the following four mentalities, regardless of what ups and downs the business throws at you. Guest Post by Eric Bernsen on the Sonicbids Blog In the world of independent music, you can rest assured ...
Concord Bicycle Music Acquires HighTone & Bandit Records Catalogs
The Concord Bicycle music group continues its multi-year buying spree of both independent record labels and music publishers with the acquisition of two iconic indies Americana, folk and blues label HighTone Records and country legend George Jones' label imprint Bandit Records. Concord Bicycle Music announced that they have acquired some new assets, including the catalog of storied indie ...
Spotify Acquries Social Apps Soundwave, Cord Project
In its drive to compete, Spotify is constantly iterating and adding new features. Usually that's been done in-house or via major acquisitions like The Echo Nest. But now they've taken a different tact, acquiring two social music apps. Spotify has acquried two social music apps Soundwave and Chord Project The Soundwave app, which has been downloaded ...
Starbucks Turns Up Volume On Spotify Partnership With Song Saving
Music has always been an integral part of Starbuck's imaging; and when fans began the shift from physical goods to streaming, the 7500+ store chain partnered with Spotify. All Starbuck's baristas get a free Spotify Premium account and they're using them to create playlists. Now customers who like what they hear, can easily save that song ...
Grammys To Be Broadcast Live Nationwide For The First Time
In the age of Twitter and social media, live anywhere is live everywhere. Succumbing to that reality, the Grammys are making delayed broadcast optional for the first time ever. The Grammys have announced that CBS will offer its stations in Mountain and Pacific time zones the option to air the awards show at 8 p.m. ET, ...
After Cancelling IPO, Deezer Raises $109 Million In New Funding From Powerful Partners
One of Spotify's biggest rivals, Deezer looked like it was in a bit of trouble after cancelling its IPO and some unflattering questions about user counts last year. Today, the France based music streamer roared back with some major new funding from some powerful partners. France based music streaming service Deezer has raised 100 million EU ...
Patreon Raises Additional $30M "To Fund the Emerging Creative Class"
Kickstarter virtually created mainstream crowdfunding and PledgeMusic refined it for musicians. But Patreon has taken a decidedly different approach to helping fans fund undervalued musicians and other creators by championing and facilitating ongoing patronage. Patreon, the Jack Conte cofounded fan patronage platform for musicians, YouTubers, podactsers and other creators today announced an additional $30 million in ...
Blockchain And A Cryptocurrency Fueled Music Economy
This article looks at what we've from learned from the era of illegal downloading as well as the evolving role of record companies in a potentially cryptocurrency fueled music economy. Guest Post by Bryce Weiner on Zapchain Digital rights management (DRM) solutions utilizing blockchain technology have long been a dream of evangelists, however nearly every existing implementation ...
Bowie Scores First Ever #1, Makes Vevo History With 51M Video Views In Single Day
Just a week after his death, iconic rocker David Bowie’s final album Blackstar debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 chart, his first ever No. 1 album. Bowie reached a major video milestone, as well. Vevo announced that following the music icon's passing, David Bowie's catalog drew 51M views on January 11th, the most views for any ...
Why Hustle Beats Talent When Talent Don’t Hustle
In this interview with Jesse Tolbert, the Detroit born audio engineer and entrepreneur discusses the changes he has witnessed in recording technology over the years, and the challenge of being able to capture a song's “feel" from digital instrumentation alone. Guest Post by Rory Seydel on Landr Jesse Tolbert has a tattoo on his arm. Its message is ...
