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There's Just One Territory for Releasing Music Now: The World
I came across this on Bravewords.com this morning: Starting at roughly 8:00am EST on Thursday, February 2nd, VAN HALEN's new album A Different Kind Of Truth will reportedly be available via the Australian iTunes store (12:00 midnight on February 3rd Sydney time). Go to www.apple.com/au/itunes for more information. A Different Kind Of Truth, will be released ...
Raditaz: Location-Specific User-Created Radio Stations
This week I spoke with Tom Brophy, Founder and CEO of Raditaz, a mobile and web-based radio service with a particularly interesting location-based aspect. Raditaz offers the option of creating your own station and listening to stations created by others along with some preprogrammed options. Given that streaming music and the radio metaphor have been explored ...
11 Top Ways to Create Compelling Music Video Content
Every artist should be using online video as part of their promotional toolkit. That means you must set up a YouTube account (also known as a “channel") if you haven't done so already. And once in place, your channel must feature new videos on a regular basis. Why? Because video allows you to connect with fans ...
Remember Ilike? The Social Music Network Officially Died Today
In the the spring of 2009, iLike had 45 million registered users and was the #1 music application on Facebook. “Is There An iLike Effect?," we asked then; and the answer was yes. The #1 and #2 albums on iTunes were Keith Urban's “Defying Gravity" and “Gavin Degraw's “Free"—two releases with nothing in common except that ...
New Music Marketing Opportunities on Tumblr, Instagram and Chill
Being an early adopter has its pluses and minuses. You can get wrapped up in chasing every new thing and lose site of your overall goal. But if you're already involved with a service or platform, new developments can give your music marketing a fresh look. For example, Tumblr is now offering highlighted posts for a ...
Pixsound: Turning Photos into Musical Instruments, It's Much Better Than You Think
Music iOS App Pixound takes an intriguing approach: letting you play any photo as if it were a musical instrument. That was enough to get our attention, and when we first started playing around with the Pixound (iOS $1), we thought it was a neat gimmick, but probably not worth a buck. Then we kept playing, ...
INgrooves CEO Robb McDaniels on Music Streaming: Setting the Record Straight
It's a format change—that's why it is stoking so much fear and anxiety in the marketplace. The ability to “access" your media and stream it to any device, anywhere is simply the logical progression of technological development that has led us from vinyl to cassette to CD to download to stream. With each of these format ...
Bonnaroo's First Decade Nets $5 Million to Charities
Promoters of the Bonnaroo festival announced that after the first 10 years of the festival, they have donated more than $5 million to local, regional and national charities and organizations. Festival partner Rick Farman explained that as they prepare for the 2012 festival, organizers have challenged themselves to surpass that over the next 10 years with ...
Live Nation CEO Predicts Strong Year for Live Music
Live Nation President and CEO Michael Rapino is upbeat about the live industry's prospects in 2012. In a recent interview with the Los Angeles Times, Rapino reiterated what the company had teased in an earlier quarterly earnings report; business in 2012 was up as much as 14%. The teaser also reported that the number of shows ...
Agile Music: Artist Creativity and Music Formats in the Age of Mass Customization
Today I want to talk to you about a concept called Agile Music, a framework for understanding how artist creativity, industry business models and music products must all undergo a programme of radical, transformational change. I'm going to start by outlining the catalysts for this change. This time last year on this very stage I argued ...
