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What Live Nation's Acquisition of Bigchampagne Means to Future of the Live Music Industry
COMMENTARY: In February 2006, shortly after Micahel Rapino took the helm of Live Nation, he shared his vision of what the company needed to do to grow the live music business. He spoke of an industry where the vast majority of tickets are sold online yet the majority of marketing is still done via traditional media; ...
Steve Aoki Unveils New Music Using Turntable.FM
Electro house musician Steve Aoki has chosen to unveil his latest tracks in the context of a Turntable.fm DJ room—making him the first established artist to fully orchestrate a listening session using the platform. While many artists have debuted their tracks online before, this strategic move is a solid example of how one artist has a keen ...
Musical Capitalism
With the music industry suffering huge defeat in the onset of the digital age, the tendency to be all embracing of the latest glimmer of hope has become commonplace. To call foul of new developments often results in accusations of living in the past. However, for those who do wish to plough headlong into any reshaping ...
Ian Rogers Unveils New Haircut ...And Interviews Rhapsody President John Irwin
Topspin CEO Ian Rogers is starting 2012 off with a new haircut. At the risk of sounding like there's some kind of man crush going on, Rogers has long been known for long hair (before photo to left) that made him look like a skateboarder (which he also is) rather than a CEO and father of ...
How National Tour Packages Are Ruining Music and Artist Discovery
Guest post by Nick Hardy, first published on Sinizine.net. I grew up in Memphis, Tenn. and was involved in the punk scene from my first Rancid tape stolen from my high school. I had my crappy ska band and many of my friends had just as horrible punk bands. During the mid 90's Memphis was booming ...
Menyou: Partner with Fans to Sell Your Music
Menyou, one of midemlab's 30 finalists, offers an embeddable online store for your music that your fans can also use to sell and get a cut. Artists are provided with an ecommerce option, fans can spread the word via sales from their own sites and social media outlets and Menyou makes sure everyone gets paid. A ...
Soundslates Provides Platform for Online Music Collaborations
Swiss-based Soundslates.com (beta) is an online collaborative music-making community that's one part social media platform and one part creative exchange platform. The service offers a simple collaboration tool for musicians, producers, songwriters, and sound professionals around the world to contribute to and complete each other's tracks. “I was frustrated by not being able to find exactly the ...
Indie Labels Just 12% of 2011 U.S. Sales. Here's How the Major Labels Divided the Rest
Overall U.S. music sales rose 6.9% in 2011, as album sales increased for the first time since 2004, according to Soundscan. Digital powered the increase, with sales of album downloads up 19.5% over 2010. But for all the talk here and elsewhere about the ascendancy of independent music, indies accounted for just 12.1% of U.S. music ...
Bandcamp Rings up $1 Million in December Sales. New Stats Prove Direct-to Fan's Potential
New numbers from Bandcamp show that in December alone artists using the site grossed more than $1 million in music and merch sales, bringing the total to-date to $12.6 million. But the most promising insight from Bandcamp is proof that more and more fans are paying for music that they probably set out to get for ...
The Mainstream Music Establishment Wants You to Think You're Not Good Enough
This year the mainstream music establishment was preoccupied with letting the indie/DIY community know they were “Not Good Enough." In fact, some gatekeeping factions of even the DIY/Indie community seemed to reinforce this theme (more on this later). Who's A Grammy Darling? The rumblings started in February at The Grammys when Esperanza Spalding won Best New ...
