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ASCAP Expo: The Hot Topic is the Future
By Geoff Nudelman of Telos Studios. For the songwriters, composers, and producers in attendance, the Expo's second day took a bigger focus on the future of the business from a variety of perspectives. Ken Jordan of The Crystal Method and RJD2 opened the day with a very technical conversation about how the quality of music has ...
The Most Important Problem the Music Business Must Solve
By David Sherbow (@MusicBizGuy) of My Life With Music. What is the greatest problem which the new music business must solve to maintain it relevance in the future? In my humble opinion, it needs to figure out how to simply curate new music, filter it down to a small enough selection that is easily digestible and ...
Can Understanding the Brain Help You Sell More Music?
By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. A McGill University study found that activity in the brain's nucleus accumbens reflects one's willingness to buy music after hearing it for the first time. It's hardly surprising that a part of the brain also known as the “reward center" would be responsible for deciding whether to buy (or like/favorite/collect) ...
Bandzoogle Acquires Musician Website Platform NoteWay Media
Bandzoogle, the popular website platform for musicians, today announced that it has acquired the assets of NoteWay Media, a niche competitor that also provides a self-serve website platform for musicians, performers and entertainers. Details of the acquisition were not released. NoteWay hosted websites are being moved to Bandzoogle's servers over the next few weeks and NoteWay ...
Soundexchange Distributes $117.5 Million in Q1 2013
Despite growing efforts by Clear Channel and others to licence music directly, digital music performing rights organization SoundExchange had announced a first-quarter 2013 distribution of $117.5 million. It's their largest first quarter payment ever and 10% above Q1 2012 distribution. Fourth quarter 2012 payments were $134.9 million - the largest quarterly distribution in SoundExchange history. SoundExchange ...
Pandora's Biggest Weakness, Potential Opportunity
By Kyle Bylin (@sidewinderfm), founder and editor of sidewinder.fm, a music and tech think tank. Pandora has evolved during its tumultuous, decade long rise to ascendancy in the Internet radio sector, but the product is not perfect. Avid users lament about the repetitious nature of their custom stations and their tendency to pander toward certain artists. The alternative ...
For Music Discovery, Definition Often Varies
By Kyle Bylin (@sidewinderfm), founder and editor of sidewinder.fm, a music and tech think tank. Over the years, the definition of music discovery has changed. For some, music discovery encapsulates the serendipitous event of finding a new song or artist, which is often wrapped with infatuation of a new crush. You can't stop talking about the ...
SiriusXM Takes On Pandora, Custom Radio with MySXM Powered by the Echo Nest
The music service with more paid subscribers than any other is taking direct aim at Pandora and other custom music stream providers. Today satellite broadcaster SiriusXM launched MySXM which, with some help from The Echo Nest, allows users to customize the mix of 50+ SiriusXM music channels. When listeners first start listening to a MySXM channel, ...
The Tools of Music Fan Engagement [part 1]: Blogging
In a previous post I spoke about developing a strategy for fan engagement. One of the best tools that we encourage Bandzoogle members to use to engage with their fans is a blog. A blog is essentially a web log, an online journal where you can post entries and where your fans can leave comments. Blog ...
Audiosocket and YouTube Network Stylehaul Provide Indie Music Licensing to Videomakers
Indie music licensing service Audiosocket today announced a partnership with Stylehaul, a fashion-focused YouTube Multi-channel Network (MCN), to provide easy licensing of indie music for producers' videos. It's a bit different from February's announcement of a deal between Universal Music Publishing and YouTube MCN's in that it features direct licensing through a StyleHaul-branded Audiosocket music store. ...
