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Is Apple Preparing to Offer High-Resolution Music?
By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. We've heard rumors that Apple would start selling high-resolution music — as in “better than CD quality" — for years, but so far, “lossless" has been as good as it gets, and the only way to get it in iTunes is to rip your own CDs. Evolver.fm has received word ...
42 Ways to Make Money as an Independent Musician
While often difficult, it is never entirely impossible to make a sustainable living as a musician these days. In fact, the Future of Music Coalition assembled a list of 42 ways that musicians can potentially earn money in today's music space - demonstrating the multitude of revenue streams that today's working musician must keep into account ...
Internet Radio Fairness Coalition Forms to Overhaul Net Radio Royalties
The Internet Radio Fairness Coalition, which has been assembled by several Internet and broadcast radio services including Pandora, Clear Channel and many others, officially launched last week. The Coalition comes together with a mission of urging Congress to support legislation of the Internet Radio Fairness Act of 2012 (IRFA), which they believe will bring the royalty ...
TuneSat Helps Musicians Get Paid for Unreported and Unlicensed Use of Their Music on TV
Earlier this year Zoe Keating raised awareness of the peculiar reporting processes of ASCAP for performance royalties in live settings. Now TuneSat, a music detection tech company, is doing the same thing for television reporting. Claiming that a majority of uses of music on tv are not reported to Performing Rights Organizations and that those that ...
SoundExchange Reveals What Pandora Pays Artists
By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. Earlier this month, Pandora revealed artist payouts in the millions, as part of its ongoing campaign to reduce the royalty rate for online radio — or at least add a similar burden to FM radio, which pays no performance royalty. To be clear, Pandora phrased this carefully in its blog ...
Future of Music Summit 2012 Free Live Stream 11/13
This year's Future of Music Summit, taking place in Washington, DC, November 13th, a week after the election, will be free to attend or to view live online, including here on Hypebot. That's a good thing because they've reached capacity registration on attendance and the online summit is now your only chance to participate in this ...
Groovebug's Blue Note is First Curated IOS Music Subscription App
Yesterday, we reported on the first iOS app in iTunes that lets fans of the classic rock band Crosby, Stills, and Nash subscribe to the band for $4/month through an iPad app. The band calls this “the first" artist subscription app in iTunes, and we believe that to be the case. It's a fascinating idea, this ...
A Closer Look at the Plight of Uninsured Musicians
New York Magazine's recent story with Grizzly Bear exposed several economic realities of being an independent artist in today's music business. The NYM went on to reveal that, “some band members don't even have health insurance." The Brooklyn-based rockers are far from being alone, as one third of full-time working musicians do not have health insurance, ...
What Happens when an Artist Makes Their Music Free for One Day [Case Study]
There's a lot of debate about whether giving away your music for free is a good practice or not. Some say that it devalues your music and keeps people from taking you seriously. Some say it's necessary to get people intrigued and listening. This post isn't meant to convince you of one of those opinions, but ...
Beyond the Music: How Artists Create Communities
Guest post by Richard Pulvino (@rpulvino) of sidewinder.fm, a music and tech think tank. The word “community" is thrown around too loosely these days. Social media marketers work to convince fans that following an artist or band on Facebook or Twitter constitutes a commitment to becoming a member of their community. This is a fallacy, and ...
