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Zane Lowe Could Do More For Discovery At Apple Than EchoNest’s $25.6 Million Does For Spotify
When BBC Radio One DJ Zane Lowe announced an unexpected move to Apple, Mark Mulligan interpreted that as writing on the wall. Take a closer look at the shifts happening within the streaming service sector and what they could mean for the industry as a whole in this guest post from Music Industry Blog. BBC Radio ...
TightTalk RecorderPlugin Reinvents The Cassette Recorder For Modern Use
Remember when recording was revolutionized by the cassette player? Hip Hop artist Trace Marx (Mark Larmon) is on a mission to initiate another revolution by taking the cassette recorder concept and merging it with modern technology - thus, the RecorderPlugin. TightTalk's RecorderPlugin seeks to put top of the line convergence technology in the hands of industry ...
Pandora, Spotify, iTunes Hatch Plan To Make Musicians Love Them
Musicians unhappy with the size of their payments from streaming music services have meant an ongoing public relations nightmare for Spotify, Pandora and their competitors. Attempts to plead for patience, explain the complex math and blame the record labels have all fallen on deaf ears. So the music streamers have each hatched a plan to win ...
It's Time For Artists To Get Paid For AM/FM Plays
Many digital services would like to see AM/FM radio pay a performance right, too, but the American federal government is giving giant commercial broadcasters a subsidy—one that’s gone on for nearly a century. The Future of Music Coalition believes its high time to put an end to it. It’s pretty weird when you think about it: when you hear ...
Pandora Tests Direct To Fan Audio Messaging Service For Artists
Some in the industry have been critical of Pandora's payments to artists and labels. As part of a campaign to show that the platform can help artists, the music streamer began offering a free analytics dashboard. Now Pandora is experimenting with allowing artists to include audio messages in their streams. At the Code/Media conference yesterday in Laguna ...
Pandora Has “No Comment” About “Steering” Payola In Direct Deal With Naxos Records
Pandora is bringing back the $50 handshake by striking another “direct" deal this week with Naxos Records; and is looking for any pre-ruling leverage that they can find, according to David Lowery of The Trichordist. Ed note - The $50 dollar handshake was record industry slang for the age old practice of illegal payments by record labels to radio stations for preferential airplay. ...
Reporting On SoundCloud: Past, Present & Future
In the seven years since its inception, SoundCloud has worked to build the ideal platform for maximizing exposure and connections for musicians, and, in doing so, has dramatically changed the music industry. Griffin Davis explores how in the Music Business Journal. In the years since the rise and subsequent fall of Napster, the distribution of recorded music ...
Signature Brew, Music-Based Brewery Opens Up For Public Crowdfunding
Have you ever dreamed of going into business with some of your favorite artists & bands? Now you can by investing in London's own Signature Brew alongside Frank Turner, Baby Godzilla, Chicane, HooDoo Pop, Ed Harcourt and many more! Signature Brew, a London-based brewery, offers music and beer fans the opportunity to tap into creative collaboration by ...
Domino.fm Enters The Streaming Services Arena With High Hopes
Ladies and gentlemen, another streaming service has made an entrance. In an already saturated market dominated by algorithm curated content, Domino.fm hit the market today with hopes of combating competition with a distinctly human touch. Domino.fm curates it's musical selections directly from the industry's leading blogs and music news sources. By determining individual preferences based on the news ...
Why China's Music Industry Should Be Extremely Wary Of Its Mobile Providers
What happens when an industry’s well-being lies in the hands of a monopolistic group of state-owned enterprises that don’t care about sustainability, much less the growth, of the industry, and don't invest the money they make on others’ content back into nurturing that industry? Archie Hamilton takes a closer look in this post on Billboard.com Back in 2008 ...
