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Amazon Takes On iTunes Match with Upgraded Cloud Player, Label Deals
Amazon today launched an upgraded Cloud Player along with licensing agreements with Sony, EMI, Universal, Warner Music, and more than 150 independent distributors, aggregators and music publishers. Aimed straight at the same market as iTunes Match, Amazon's scan and match technology offers access to music anywhere, but on a wider variety of devices including the Kindle ...
Indie Label Century Media Returns Catalog to Spotify
In late 2011, heavy metal and hardcore label group Century Media pulled all its labels from Spotify in order to “protect the interests of their artists". Labels include Century Media and associated labels InsideOutMusic, Superballmusic, Ain't No Grave Records, Hollywood Waste and People Like You. Having initially cited “survival" as the primary reason for the pullout, Spotify's promotional value ...
Social Media and Email Management for Musicians
Guest post by Brian Hazard of Passive Promotion and Color Theory. Engaging with fans is fun and rewarding. It can also be an addictive time suck. If you check your email, Facebook, and Twitter first thing in the morning, you're doing it wrong! Better to start your day creating something worth tweeting about. As a self-confessed ...
Major Labels Admit They're Not Sharing Any Pirate Bay Award Money with Artists
When the prison sentences were made against The Pirate Bay defendants earlier this year, it was ordered that they would also have to pay €550,000 (approx $677,000) to several major labels including EMI, Universal Music, Sony Music and others. While the Swedish court had originally awarded the damages in order to compensate both artists and rightsholders, ...
The Young and the Digitally Restless
Guest post by Michael San Pascual. A new, technologically capable generation of music listeners is approaching adulthood. These former MySpacers are evolving into sophisticated music consumers with new and challenging expectations. They have heightened demands for mobility and social connectivity; they value the freedom to actively seek music, and also the choice to passively discover it. They ...
Text of Robert Plant, Pete Townsend and Brian May Letter Calling On Google, Isps to Fight Piracy
Robert Plant, Pete Townshend, Brian May, Elton John, Simon Cowell and six other UK musicians and music industry leaders have signed a letter addressed to Prime Minister David Cameron demanding that he fully implement the Digital Economy Act 2010, anti-piracy legislation which passed in 2010. The letter also called on ISP and search engines, online advertisers ...
Music + Games: Opportunities Abound
By Neil Cartwright, Business Development Manager, Audiosocket. Let's kick off with just a few facts about the Games industry: In 2012 the estimated turnover of the games industry will be $56bn, twice as much as the music industry. Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 grossed over $400m on it's first day of release and over $1bn ...
A Casual Scam: The Truth About Pre-Sale Tickets
Guest post by artist manager and booking agent Justin Herring. December 2005, the band I was playing in was offered a show at this venue in Tampa called The Masquerade. It was the venue in Tampa. I saw all my idols there growing up. Slayer, Down, Superjoint Ritual, Fear Factory, Cannibal Corpse, GWAR, Clutch, Lamb of God, ...
Ticketfly Secures $22 Million for Expansion
Social ticketing platform Ticketfly has announced today that they've secured $22 million in series C investment, bringing their total investment to $37 million since their launch in 2008. This round of financing was led by SAP Ventures with participation from Northgate Capital, Cross Creek Capital, and Series B lead investor Mohr Davidow Ventures. The money is ...
Turn Your Band into a Virus... with a Book?
Guest post by Aarti Kelapure of Evolver.fm. We have learned to be leery of marketing. After all, marketers and advertisers are paid to push commodities — human and otherwise — on the defenseless masses whether or not they believe in what they're selling, or so the story goes. Perhaps I'm being too cynical, but we've all ...
