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Future Of Music Coalition Praises FCC Moves Towards Real Net Neutrality
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler is to present his plans to preserve an open Internet where musicians, composers and content creators are ensured the ability to reach fans and audience members without being infringed upon by extrinsically motivated internet service providers. The proposed rules are said to include a reclassification of broadband as a “telecommunications service“ - ...
FAWM Challenges Artists To Write 14 Songs During The 28 Days Of February
Inspired by National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), FAWM Founder, Burr Settles issued the same type of charge to musicians in the form of February Album Writing Month (FAWM) - where artists are challenged to write 14 songs during the 28 days of February. The 11th Annual FAWM challenge is already underway, bringing artists of all ages, ...
7 Useful Tips To "Earning" People's Help
Guest Post By Bobby Borg, Music Business Consultant, Author, Musician Let’s face it, every young and developing artist could use some help with getting to that next level of their career—whether it’s getting a producer excited about recording your music at a discount price, or getting a well-connected consultant interested in recommending you for that audition. But to ...
5 Crowdfunding Backer Rewards That Work for Indie Musicians
Guest Post by Adam Bernard on Sonicbids Blog You're an artist, you need money, and you want to attempt to generate those funds via an engaging crowdfunding campaign. That's all well and good, but as soon as you've figured that out, you have to stop thinking like a band and start thinking like a fan. Crowdfunding has become one of the ...
Music Licensing: An Insider’s Perspective
Guest Post by John Steen I had a chance to talk with Adam McCants from The Music Bed on a recent podcast, and he gave me the raw scoop on how to get your music licensed. Adam works with major licensing opportunities every day and The Music Bed library gets over 2 million views a month, so ...
New .BAND Domains Offer Online Visibility For MusicIans
Rightside, a provider of domain name services has added .BAND domains to the global music industry as the fourth new Top Level Domain (TLD). .BAND is geared to both emerging and mainstream artists, industry influencers and online music services. The new domain aims to provide access to a bigger audience and differentiation from an otherwise saturated ...
SoundExchange Bests Personal Record With $773 Million In Royalty Payouts In 2014
SoundExchange released it's 2014 year end numbers this morning, revealing a new record for the company of $773 million in royalty payouts to recording artists and record labels. 2014's total payout is up 31% from the $590 paid out to artist and labels the year prior. The fourth quarter of 2014 also brought with it a ...
How Creative Industries Are Refining Automation For Discovery
By John Kohl, Leader and Founder of music discovery platform TuneGO. Recent discussions around automation are centered on making sense of the mass of data that lives online. After all, there’s no reason any market shouldn’t take advantage of the wealth of information users leave behind on the Internet like golden breadcrumbs. A broad spectrum of industries, ...
Why Are Artist Managers Taking Center Stage?
By Eric Peckham on Medium.com The evolving music industry is turning top managers into moguls—operating across media, tech and consumer brands The evolution of the music industry is putting greater power into the hands of top artist managers and transforming their firms—traditionally very small, behind-the-scenes operations—into miniature conglomerates operating across media, tech, and consumer brands. The root of this ...
Sony To Close Music Unlimited, Partners With Spotify For New Service
One major sign that a sector is heating up is the quantity and quality of the deal making, as rivals jockey for position. By that, and almost any other measure, streaming music is on fire; and today's announcement that Sony Music Limited will shut down to be replaced by a new partnership with Spotify is a ...
