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Former MOG, Beats CEO Raises $5m, Launches Chosen - "The Voice" Meets the Web
David Hyman, former CEO of Beats Music, has taken the lid off of his most recent startup venture, Chosen. The first of it's kind, Chosen is recreating the concept of hit TV shows like American Idol, X Factor, and The Voice by bringing the main stage to the consumer's pocket. By making competition accessible to any and ...
How to Connect with Influencers when You Have Zero Music Industry Contacts
By Courtney Harding on Sonicbids Blog A few weeks ago, the New York Times ran a profile of theAudience, a firm that connects big brands to social media influencers. Gone are the days when a big ad spend or tons of radio promotion was required to break a band – now, a kid with a big Tumblr following can move the needle just as ...
6 Ways to Reach Your Kickstarter Goal
By Hugh McIntyre on Sonicbids Blog We’ve all heard of Kickstarter and some of the amazing success stories that have come from its fundraising platform – LeVar Burton raising $2 million in two days to bring Reading Rainbow back, for example – but how is it done? There are tens of thousands of projects on the ...
The RIAA Responds: How David Pakman Shortchanged Role of Record Label
By Steven Marks (Chief, Digital Business & General Counsel, RIAA) on RIAA's Music Notes Blog I respect David and his accomplishments in the music space, but his blog “The Artist’s Share” misses the mark. The piece wrongly assumed that labels pay royalties to artists and simply keep the rest. This is not the case. Let’s take ...
When and Why Should You Invest in Radio Promotion?
By Rob Wilcox, Senior Manager of Alt. Radio Promotion at The Syndicate. This article originally appeared on TheDailyRind.com So you’re in a band, or perhaps you’re a manager of an up-and-coming artist — or perhaps you run a record label and have a release you want to create additional exposure for. What do you do to create ...
Spotify Royalties Now Exceed iTunes Payments in More Markets
Music publisher Kobalt has released new stats which show that its writers’ European earnings from Spotify have overtaken those from iTunes. Royalties collected from Spotify’s streaming service in Q1 2014 were 13% higher than those from the iTunes download store in the EU. These numbers says as much about the decline in digital music sales as they ...
If You Schmooze, You Lose: 5 Things to Avoid at SF Music Tech
We've all been there - you walk into a conference where hundreds of people are gathered for a common cause or interest, and without fail, there are those people who know they can do “it" better than everyone else in attendance. Whatever “it" is, they've got the monopoly on the best ideas and they're going to let you know ...
The Musician's Guide to Snapchat
By Keidra Chaney on Sonicbids.com For a working musician, the thought of yet another social media platform may seem exhausting, especially considering that Facebook and Twitter are already pretty time-consuming. While video- and photo-sharing networks like Vine or Snapchat may seem nonessential for musicians, don’t overlook them. Photo messaging platform Snapchat, founded in 2011, is a particularly hot platform for younger-skewing music audiences and genres like EDM. Unlike photo ...
It's Time for a Streaming Pricing Reset
By Mark Mulligan of MiDA on his Music Industry blog. There is a growing realization that that streaming revenue is not growing quickly enough to offset the impact of declining download sales. It is an eerily familiar echo of the recurring narrative of the noughties that download sales were not growing quickly enough to offset the ...
10 Reasons Why Every Artist Should Be on Spotify
By Kami Kanke, founder of Bands Under the Radar music podcast, blog and record label. This post originally appeared on BandsUnderTheRadar.com There’s a lot of buzz these days around music streaming subscription services and how they will impact the music business. It seems like every other week some famous artist is ranting about how much they hate Spotify, ...
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