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Recording Academy Reorganizes To Offer Stronger Grassroots Activism For Music Creators
Yesterday morning, The Recording Academy announced it will merge it's Advocacy and Membership divisions in an effort to enhance the grassroots advocacy happening on behalf of music creators at a local level. The merge will allow the music community a direct line to approach Congress with an informed & unified voice at a time where effective ...
Blank Media Levies And The Precedent Of “Who Pays?” Has Ramifications Way Beyond Music…
The idea of a blank media levy is not at all new. The debate has been around since cassette tapes enabled affordable, large-scale private copying. Today, it seems as if this idea is losing importance given that the ‘access’ model of music consumption is gaining ground against the prevailing ‘ownership’ model in which music is purchased ...
TuneCore Paid $36 Million To Indie Musicians In First 3 Months Of 2015
Earlier this month, Believe Digital acquired flat fee D.I.Y. digital music distributor TuneCore, in a move that reshuffled the indie music distribution deck. Today, Tunecore shared its most recent payouts to indie artists. TuneCore announced today that it paid $36 million to artists in the first three months of 2015. That's a a 5% increase versus ...
Google, Amazon, Pandora, NPR Unite To Fight Better Pay For Musicians
A coalition of lobbying groups and large corporations have united to fight efforts to that would raise payments to musicians and creators from broadcast radio and online music services. The movement to increase payments to creators and revamp antiquated copyright laws has been gathering momentum with new legislation filed, reviews underway by key regulatory bodies and in ...
What Most Musicians Don't Understand About Selling Music
Why did you become a musician? I bet “because I love promoting and driving sales" wasn't on your list of reasons. But these days, musicians have to take on the responsibilities of promoting, distributing, and selling themselves, especially during the early stages of their careers. It may not be the reason you set out on your ...
Jukely Adds $8 Million In Funding To Expand $25/Mo. Concert Subscription Service
Jukely promised tickets to unlimited concerts for just $25 a month; and they appear to be delivering in way that's exciting live concert fans and encouraging discovery. To fuel expansion, investors have just added $8 million in funding. Concert discovery app Jukely has raised $8 million in a seed extension round from existing investors, led by ...
4 Music Promotion Hacks The Lazy (Or Insanely Busy) Musician
Not many have the luxury of being full-time musicians with no other commitments. Typically, musicians juggle a career, school, day job, family, or a combination of the four. Unfortunately, they're often a bit too busy to put the hours that they want into music. Or, on the flipside, music is just a fun hobby or, hey, maybe ...
25 Ways To Get The Most Out Of Your YouTube Channel
What do all successful YouTubers have in common? They create great videos. But beyond that, smart video creators are using some of YouTube’s tools and features to harness the power of those videos and their intended viewers. Is your channel optimized? Guest Post by Chris Robley on The DIY Musician Here’s a simple checklist you can reference to make ...
What Is Bitcoin And Why Should Musicians Care?
Music has a long history with peer-to-peer technology. Napster was the first to allow us to download mp3s directly from our peers. Music fans were so frustrated with the pricing strategy and delivery mechanisms dictated by the music industry that they felt justified not paying for tracks. So what killed Napster? Guest Post by Alan Cross ...
Turning Artists Into Brands: A&R In The Digital Age
The traditional music business model was based on selling physical copies of recordings. With the advent of digital technology and a sharp decline in recorded music sales, the focus is shifting slowly but surely into turning artists into brands.2 From an A&R perspective, the goal has become finding artists that have a great following–not artists that just ...
