Home » Search Center » Results: HypeBot
Results for "HypeBot"
Is Music Piracy the Problem... or the Solution?
Yesterday in a comment left on one of Hypebot's Best of 2011 articles, one reader expressed a viewpoint that ending piracy is the #1 route to a professional career in the music industry. They went on to say: “You can't have jobs where there's no money. People who aspire to professional careers need to learn who is ...
Pandora Launches Web Hub for Live Concert Series
Pandora has announced an online extension of the free, live concert series that the company debuted earlier in the month. The Pandora live concert series hub is currently sponsored by Budweiser. The Pondora live concert series launched in Portland, Ore. on December 13 with Dawes, an emerging rock band from Southern California. As the official launch ...
Active vs. Passive Fans: Why Radio and TV Still Rank Tops for Music Discovery [best of Hypebot]
The data presented in a recent NPD Group/NARM study found terrestrial radio and syndicated television among the main influential sources of music discovery (60% and 49% respectively). With all the new avenues for music discovery out there, why are the majority of people still choosing to shape their musical tastes through premeditated and controlled media sources? By assessing the data, ...
10 Tips to Advance Your Music Business Career [best of Hypebot 2011]
No matter where you are in your career, it's important to look back at the basics. It allows you to think like a beginner again; back to when you could visualize the most possibilities. The following ten tips, taken from a NARIP event in San Francisco, will help move forward your career in the music business—however ...
The Voice Project: Rescuing Child Soldiers
Music has been a central element in The Voice Project's ongoing program to rescue child soldiers from forced conscription in the Lord's Revolutionary Army in Uganda. Combatants are welcomed home with messages in music by women of northern Uganda who have experienced the upheavals of war. The Voice Project is currently building an FM radio network ...
Rhapsody Hits 1 Million U.S. Subscribers, Thanks to Invisible DRM. CEO Shaves Head.
By Eliot Van Buskirk, Evolver.fm On the heels of its purchase of Napster, Rhapsody announced on Thursday that it now has one million subscribers in the United States, which it says makes it the most popular premium (i.e. paid) unlimited music service in the country. [Photo: Rhapsody CEO Jon Irwin made good on a pledge to ...
A List of the World's Top Piracy Sites
The newest listing of top global markets for piracy and counterfeiting from the United States Trade Representatives contains a few surprises. Most notably China's Baidu is no longer listed after new deals to create a paid music service seem to be moving forward. The World's Top Piracy Sites: 2011 Notorious Markets List—The list below identifies particular ...
Controversial Megaupload to Launch Topspin, Bandcamp Direct-to-Fan Competitor
Breaking a 10 year silence with a Torrentfreak op-ed, controversial Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom took on his many critics along with Universal Music for yanking his promo video from YouTube (“They decided to stop us at all costs... They have nothing and they don't even care."). But buried in his lengthy diatribe were also specifics of ...
SoundCloud Grabs Exclusive Unreleased Paul McCartney with Eric Clapton [listen]
SoundCloud is hosting the first track from Paul McCartney's upcoming album, a month before its official release next year. 'My Valentine,' featuring a guest appearance from Eric Clapton, will debut on the platform's newly released HTML5 player. LISTEN: Announced officially yesterday, Paul McCartney returns with a brand new album on 6th February 2012 through Hear Music/Concord ...
Exclusive Look Inside Artist Growth Musician Career Management Platform [video]
Artist Growth won't launch until January 17th, but we've got an exclusive look inside this mobile software platform which offers musicians career management tools, task tracking and group project coordination. Created by Nashville based musicians turned entrepreneurs Matt Urmy and Jonathan Sexton, Artist Growth's proprietary technology integrates finances, calendars, inventory, contacts, social media and mentoring resources within ...
