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6 Ways to Kill Your Music Career
By Bobby Borg on Sonicbids Blog Most artists spend months writing, recording, and finalizing their songs, merch, and live performances for the marketplace, only to make repeated mistakes when it comes to promoting themselves. Don't let this be you. Here are six career-killing mistakes you want to be absolutely sure to avoid. 1. Not communicating a consistent brand Many artists fail to understand that literally everything – their name, logo, song titles, merch designs, ...
Understanding Crowdfunding
By Luiz Augusto Buff and Peter Alhadefffrom Berklee College of Music's Music Business Journal Musicians, artists, and music business entrepreneurs need cash to start a project and nurture it to fruition. They are hardly unique in this respect, and face many of the considerations that the general public does: i.e. is the need for money for the ...
Where's the Cash for Musicians Today and Beyond?
At last month's SF MusicTech Summit, a panel including Dave Cool (Bandzoogle), Zack Greenburg (Forbes), Kristin Thomson (Future of Music Coalition), Wade Metzler (SoundExchange), J Sider (BandPage) and Amy Dietz (INgrooves) discussed where the money is for artists in today's music industry. Being a self-sustaining artist a hard row to hoe—as Dave Cool pointed out, some of ...
Pandora Releases Major Update to Mobile Apps, Adds "Un-Thumbing"
Pandora today announced major updates to its mobile apps with new station personalization features including the ability to “un-thumb" a previously liked track along with single swipe access to song and artist info. Currently in beta with just 3% of iPhone and Android smartphone users, the update will roll out to all Pandora mobile and tablet ...
Spotify's Secret Weapon
By Christopher D Amico from Berklee College of Music's Music Business Journal. Spotify announced in March the acquisition of The Echo Nest, the industry’s leading music intelligence company. The deal signals the rising importance of big data in the music industry. Founded by MIT Media Lab doctoral students Tristan Jehan and Brian Whitman, The Echo Nest provided intelligence to ...
Maximizing Musical Collaboration Through Video Conferencing
When it comes to enjoying music, there are more listening options than ever before. Whether you prefer the old school record or something more contemporary like MP3s or a streaming service, the fact is, music is so easily accessible that it’s just about impossible to imagine a time when you actually had to attend a live ...
Russell Simmons Discusses New Era of Music Industry
In a recent interview with Grammy U and All Def Digital, Def Jams' Russell Simmons spoke about the recent shift in the music industry - a shift he believes has taken the industry away from a royalty based formula. Simmons discussed All Def Digital, his new project with Steve Rifkind in partnership with Universal Music Group and Samsung. He highlighted the platform's matchmaking capabilities for ...
More Than Royalties - It's Time We Bring the Open Web to Music
By Jesse von Doom on Medium.com We talk endlessly about royalties, which is really a way of talking about centralization — giving power to a service or organization and asking them to sort out the model that pays people. Centralization will always lead to a system that can be gamed. Anything less than every participant acting altruistically means ...
Fon's Martin Varsavsky to Keynote Midem 2015
Martin Varsavsky, Founder & CEO of community WiFi network Fon has been named a keynote speaker at next year's Midem conference, where he will offer his views on the future of convergence and new collaborations between the creative industries and digital technology. The world's largest international music conference, Midem has moved from its traditional January slot to ...
Limited Edition Independent Music, Courtesy of Record Store Day's Black Friday Event
Record Store Day will be holding their fifth annual Black Friday event on Friday, November 28th. There is not an incomprehensible list of sale items being broadcasted as you've likely seen or experienced throughout this week in nearly every medium imaginible. Rather, in an effort to remove commercialized chaos from the experience, Record Store Day's Black ...
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