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Musician's 30 Minute Daily Strategy for Social Media Marketing
By Brian Thompson of Thorny Bleeder. What follows is an article I wrote for Songwriters Magazine, published by the Songwriters Association of Canada in their 2013 Fall Edition. For the musician who isn't a digital native (someone who grew up immersed in Internet culture and online networking), the world of social media can be incredibly daunting. Some might ...
Grammy 2013 Lifetime Achievement Winners: Ravi Shankar, Lightnin' Hopkins, Carole King and More
The Recording Academy this morning announced its 2013 Special Merit Awards recipients. This year's Lifetime Achievement Award winners are Glenn Gould, Charlie Haden, Lightnin' Hopkins, Carole King, Patti Page, Ravi Shankar who died yesterday just hours before the nomination, and the Temptations. Trustees Award winners are Marilyn and Alan Bergman, Leonard and Phil Chess, and Alan ...
The Opportunity of Streaming Services for Artists
Guest post by Rishi Mirchandani (@rmirchandani) for sidewinder.fm, a music and tech think tank. He handles operations for Turntable.fm. There has been a lot of debate over streaming services and the royalty rates they pay. Critics point to royalties from services like Spotify, where it takes 200 streams to earn the equivalent of one download, as evidence ...
CD Baby Milestone: $250m Paid to Indie Musicians
CD Baby, founded as a backroom enterprise by Derek Sivers and sold to DiscMakers in 2008, announced that it has paid out over $250 million to artists for digital download sales, on-demand streaming revenue, physical CD sales, and sync licensing royalties. $50 million was paid in this year alone. “For years, we've been paying musicians every ...
A D.I.Y. Artist's Successful $30 Download Experiment
By Laurence Trifon, manager for indie electronic act Trifonic (@ltrifon). Will fans pay $30 for a digital download of a band's new album? In Trifonic's case, the answer is yes. A Unique Offer for Fans For the release of Trifonic's Ninth Wave album last month, we offered the typical assortment of direct-to-fan packages on our website: ...
Data Science and the Music Industry: What Social Media Has to Do with Record Sales
Guest post by Liv Buli and Victor Hu for sidewinder.fm, a music and tech think tank. Buli and Hu work for Next Big Sound, a music analytics company. Twenty years ago, as a music fan, you would hear a song you enjoyed on the radio, head to the record store to buy the album and wait until the ...
Yamaha Entertainment Group Founder Chris Gero Discusses New Record Label
Yamaha recently launched a new record label under the auspices of the Yamaha Entertainment Group of America. The news itself was worth noting as an example of the current range of experimentation with music business models and approaches including corporations creating in-house labels. I took the opportunity to speak with Founder Chris Gero to find out ...
2013 Jazz Grammy Nominees
31. Best Improvised Jazz Solo Cross Roads Ravi Coltrane, soloist Track from: Spirit Fiction [Blue Note] Hot House Gary Burton & Chick Corea, soloists Track from: Hot House [Concord Jazz] Alice In Wonderland Chick Corea, soloist Track from: Further Explorations ...
The Holy Grail of Music Listening: Social, Discovery, and Recommendations
Guest post by Sagee Ben-Zedeff (@sageeb) for sidewinder.fm, a music and tech think tank. Ben-Zedeff is the founder and CEO of Serendip Media. Three months ago, Nielsen published one of my favorite reports of the year, Music 360. It's a rather comprehensive, in-depth study of consumer interaction with music in the US. The results this year didn't surprise me, ...
Dear Kyle, Music Discovery is Neither a Lie nor a Path to Failure
By Paul Lamere, the Director of Developer Platform at The Echo Nest. He blogs at Music Machinery. This week, the usually excellent Hypebot published a post by Kyle Bylin called Music Discovery: The Path to Digital Failure. In this post, Kyle takes issue with a recent Billboard article about how music discovery is one of the ...
