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Digital Music Services and the Rise of EDM
By Grammy nominated electronic artist, songwriter, producer and DJ Ryan Farish. When I first started releasing my albums about a decade ago, I challenged myself to find my own voice, pursuing each new song with the hope and in the idea of discovering my own individual sound. I wanted to contribute something to music, and in ...
Venzo Digital's Free iTunes Distro Adds Music Videos, Passes $2 Million in Artist Payouts
Venzo Digital focuses exclusively on providing free digital music distribution to iTunes taking a 20% revenue share. This week they announced the addition of music video uploads to iTunes in addition to music, ringtones and mobile apps. Venzo also debuted Intranet Voice, introducing voice navigation to their site, and payouts now reaching over $2 million to ...
The Future of Music Discovery is in the Numbers
By Kyle Billings from Berklee College of Music's Music Business Journal. Information is changing the music industry; not only in the ways we consume and discover music, but as well in the ways companies are arming themselves for competition. Streaming services see gold in the figures that fuel recommendation algorithms, and now content companies, driven too ...
Jumpstart Your Music Career with Sync Licensing
By Neil Gillis, President of Round Hill Music, from the Sonicbids blog. When I first started in the music business (yes, the stone age), getting “cuts” of your songs by artists on new records was the key to driving creative success as a publisher. Everything came from that, including additional airplay, compilations, and usages in media. Nowadays, ...
Record Store Day Fallout: Even Its UK Coordinator is Questioning the Event
If you're interested in limited-edition vinyl released on Record Store Day eBay has a nice dedicated section that includes RSD by year. Such resales shouldn't surprise anyone but multiple musicians are expressing dismay at how quickly such items appear on eBay. In particular, Paul Weller discovered his release appearing the day before Record Store Day on ...
Rdio Catches up with 320kbps Streaming, Joins Bob Weir's New "Artists for Quality" Initiative
Music streamer Rdio has upgraded it's streaming quality to 320KpBS and joined Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead's new “Artists For Quality" initiative to improve streaming audio quality. The upgrade, which puts Rdio on par with Spotify, Beats, Deezer and most other major music streamers, highlights the increasing public debate over improving the audio experience. But it ...
Are You Psychologically Suited for Success in the Music Industry?
A recurring theme of business writers is the topic of personal psychology and success. Often this comes in the form of looking at an aggregate sample of successful entrepreneurs, figuring out top psychological traits and saying you need to be this or that personality type to succeed. Yet research into entrepreneurship has repeatedly shown that successful ...
Indie Labels Speak out Against Negative Effects of Major Labels on Record Store Day
Earlier this year I wrote about concerns related to major labels' getting into vinyl and sucking up more of the limited time of current vinyl pressing facilities. However that's just one of the problems affecting indie labels and record stores for whom Record Store Day was created. But even if indie shops withdraw from RSD as ...
Jacobs Media's Techsurvey10 Finds Radio Occupying "Both Sides of the Digital Tipping Point"
Jacobs Media's latest survey of radio listeners, Techsurvey10, finds that “radio is on both sides of the tipping point." That sounds painful but, as it turns out, they're saying that many listeners are still tuning in to broadcast aka terrestrial radio via traditional sources while a growing number are listening to those stations digitally. It's one ...
Researchers Claim That Releasing Youtube Music Videos Reduces Album Sales
A new report on the relationship of posting videos on YouTube and album sales claims that posting on YouTube reduces album sales. Taking the Warner Music YouTube blackout period in 2009, researchers apply advanced statistical methods to find causation and then total up losses using a “rough back-of-the-envelope calculation." This innovative use of mixed methods leads ...
