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Bridging the Gap Between Crowdfunding and Album Delivery with Your Own Album Campaign
One of the most powerful aspects of crowdfunding is the direct connections to fans that make it possible. But too many crowdfunding campaigns default to an old school music industry model that even the music industry has been leaving behind. First you get the money and make a lot of noise, then you retreat into the ...
5 Recording Tips for Vinyl Releases
If you're thinking about putting out a vinyl album there's a lot to consider. The turnaround time for production takes longer and extra things need to be done during the recording process. PledgeMusic has a nice post looking at some of these issues. In addition to scheduling concerns and making sure you know what things cost ...
Free Updated Music Metadata Style Guide 2.0 from Music Biz
Music metadata is a boring topic, but a very important one. Today The Music Business Association (Music Biz) published version 2.0 of its Music Metadata Style Guide, which provides common naming conventions and data entry standards for music companies to use when listing, ingesting, and managing digital music. By following these standards, artists, labels and digital ...
Pandora Does Not Cannibalize Radio, Says New Study
Listening to Pandora does not mean that users listen to to less broadcast radio, according to a new study. Researchers at NuVoodoo Media Services interviewed 1100 respondents ages 14-54. Their findings indicate that 62% of Pandora users listen to Pandora at least 30 minutes per day and nearly as many spend that much time with broadcast radio. ...
Music Industry Mulls Single Global Release Day
Music industry trade groups the RIAA and IFPI are pushing for the adoption of a single global release day for music, according to reports surfacing this week. Currently new music is released on Tuesday, the UK on Monday, and Australia and Germany debut releases on Friday. No word yet if WIN, AIM, A2IM and other independent music ...
What's "Failed" Musician Mark Montgomery Got to Teach You? A Heck of a Lot About Business!
Mark Montgomery went to Nashville with $800 and dreams of a music career. That didn't pan out but he didn't stop playing music, he just started making money, lots of money, in other areas. In an interview with Andrew Warner of Mixergy, Montgomery shares his story and the business secrets he learned along the way. The ...
Blue Music Group Pulls Music from Spotify Citing "Pitiful" Rates
Niche jazz and classical label Blue Music Group has withdrawn its music from Spotify citing low royalty payments. Blue Music specializes in music from Scandinavian, one of Spotify's strongest markets. "Having the catalog available at Spotify's pitiful rates - and we're talking about fractions of cents per streamed song - kills all chances to produce new fruitful ...
20 Of the Worst Band Names Ever
Naming a new band can be tricky. After all, it needs to convey so much in just a few words, and you're stuck with it forever. Twitter account @pisspoorbands curates an ever growing list of horrible band names both real and imagined. Here. in no particular order, are 20 of the worst: Craig and His List Menstrual Pancake ...
CD Baby Adds Free Customized Music Players
CD Baby has added free customizable online music players. Users build playlists from any tracks in their CD Baby account and embed them on their sites, as well as those of bloggers and fans. A “buy" button takes fans to CD Baby to complete the transaction. Key Features & An Intro Video Create Custom playlists ...
An Industry Insider Explains Why Streaming Music's Already Profitable
By Thomas McAlevey, CEO of Radical.FM. This article was originally published on Radical.FM's blog. Just how bright is the future of the music industry really? A new generation has spoken and Access (streaming any music in the world from ‘The Cloud’) will win out over Ownership (collecting a finite number of songs as CDs or files) ...
