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Next Big Sound Analyzes 2013 Music Data
A special report from Next Big Sound. Looking at the online music industry data for 2013 in aggregate across sources ranging from the major social networks, streaming services, sales figures, and key events for more than a million artists, we reveal an industry that is decidedly lopsided. In our rankings of the most popular artists across ...
Want to Live Stream Your Music Concert? Here's an Overview of Options
One of the most difficult aspects of writing about tech startups is that when a concept makes sense and gets funded, all sorts of other companies will get in the space. That quickly makes things hard to sort out. Over the last couple of years, Hypebot has covered numerous startups that offer ways to live stream ...
Day in the Life of a Modern Day Music A+R
By INDMUSIC's Channel Manager Arshan Sadri. Leading A&R for YouTube's Largest Music Network sounds like a made up job, or at least one that most people didn't know existed until about three years ago. Over the last few years, YouTube has become one of the largest and most talked about platforms for discovering music. From VEVO ...
Vinyl Pressing Plants in Short Supply
With vinyl sales growing strongly over the last 6 years, it's not a surprise that vinyl pressing plants appear to be in short supply. Yet vinyl sales aren't enough to spark a resurgence of vinyl pressing equipment manufacturers and so, as some old equipment is sold for parts, the tools of the trade are also beginning ...
Is Pandora Prepared for the Launch of Beats Music?
As Beats Music prepares for its big day tomorrow, other services like Spotify and Rdio have been preparing with pre-emptive strikes expanding free listening, a feature Beats Music will not have. Pandora's already free but they've been running a creative commercial campaign, last week added recommendations to ease that awkward “paralysis moment" and keep growing by ...
Make More Money with Your Official Band Website
There are a lot of ways to make money on the web when you have your own site. But it's easy to fall into a rut with a band or label's website, monetizing music online in the expected manner by selling music, merch and tickets, requesting donations and crowdfunding. While you don't want to go overboard ...
5 Stories That Will Shape the Music Industry in 2014
By Alex May (@AlexmDrums) In a recent episode of the Upward Spiral podcast, we talked with Darren Hemmings, who is the founder of Motive Unknown, a strategic digital marketing consultancy, about the top stories of last year. Ranging from music royalties gaining press attention to Billboard’s including YouTube video views and online music stream in chart rankings, 2013 ...
6 Things I Learned Submitting My Music for a Grammy
By Musician and Marketing Consultant Solveig Whittle (@shadesofsolveig). Sometime in the summer of 2013, I decided to join The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS), AKA The Academy®. I had heard it was a great way to network with other local musicians – including Seattle’s own Grammy®-winning writers, producers and artists like Sir Mix-A-Lot, ...
Researchers Discover Kickstarter Phrases That Pay
Two Georgia Tech researchers have crunched the data on over 45,000 Kickstarter projects and claim they've revealed the top 100 phrases that signal that a crowdfunding project will or will not be funded. But the possibly more useful part is their analysis of the language styles indicated by these phrases and their relationship to the psychology ...
A Look at the Team Curating Beats Music
New music subscription service Beats Music says that when it launches on January 21st, it will revolutionize the listening experience through expert curation. And while it's inevitable that Beats Music founders Jimmy Iovine, Dr. Dre, Luke Wood, Trent Reznor and Ian Rogers will have a hand in fine tuning what Beats users hear, they've also hired an ...
