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Tunecore Takes On Songwriter Royalties with New Game Changing Service
(UPDATE 2) With today's launch of a new service, TuneCore hopes to help revolutionize songwriter royalty collection as it did digital music distribution. The company's Songwriter Publishing Administration Service helps navigate the confusing world of global performing rights organizations (PROs) and speeds often slow payments directly to the creator. Tunecore has also cut direct deals with ...
Pete Townshend: "Rock Music is Junk", iTunes is a "Vampire" and "What's Next is Already Here."
The BBC invited The Who's Pete Townshend to give a lecture in honor of iconic UK broadcaster John Peel. During the wide ranging, smart and often amusing speech, Townsend professed his love of streaming music and called iTunes a vampire. But that was just the start... Pete Townsend: Firstly, I'm honored to have been asked ...
Legitmix: Make Money from Mixes Without Clearances (and It Might Even Be Legal)
Legitmix is one of the most innovative offerings I've seen to date. It allows you to create legal, monetizable mixes that include copyrighted work without getting clearances. I'm going to focus on what it does but, if it survives future legal challenges, which may well come, and if it works properly with large numbers of users, ...
iTunes Store Deletes Amazon Cloud Music Player
Earlier this month, Evolver posted about how to play the music stored in your Music Beta by Google account on your iPhone using an app called gMusic. Today, we had planned to do the same for aMusic, a $2 app that lets you play music in your Amazon storage locker on iOS as well. Just one problem: It ...
The Essential Role of Artist Management in a Post-Label World
James Barton and Brian Message are London-based music managers and representatives of the Music Managers Forum UK. They recently shared “Lessons from the Industry Formerly Known as 'The Record Business,'" via the Harvard Business Review's Blog Network, addressing the emerging role of artist management in the careers of musicians as the focus shifts from selling records ...
Dave Allen: Supporting Musicians on the Social Web
The online music “business" has long been a minefield for musicians, especially unsigned independent musicians. When the default business plan for streaming services such as Spotify, Pandora and Mog, is to raise investor money, license music from the recording labels and then launch a service that requires advertising in the stream, one has to wonder what's in it for ...
5 Tough Lessons Former CEO Mike Jones Learned from MySpace
Michael Jones spent the last two years at MySpace, first as co-president and then as CEO, attempting to turn the company around. Despite a wide range of changes the relaunch never quite worked and Jones left in August as new owners took over. Now he shares the lessons he learned. When Michael Jones took what probably ...
Michelle Shaprow's Facebook Friends Help Her Get a BMG Publishing Deal
When we first checked in on singer Michelle Shaprow, she was getting big in Japan while struggling with how best to maintain personal contact with her growing fanbase on Facebook. Since then she's continued to build her Facebook following while developing business contacts facilitated by her Facebook activities and expanding her activities to other countries. She ...
Let's Get Physical: Even in the Digital Age, Musicians Shouldn't Forget About CDs, Vinyl and Tapes
Regular readers of musician advice blogs like ours at PerscriptionPR will no doubt have picked up on the fact that much of the advice that has been imparted relates to digital aspects of music industry—whether that's to do with recording, distribution, PR or marketing. And for good reason really: to misquote Madonna, we are living in ...
Musician Website Quick Fix #1: Turn Off Auto-Start
This is the first of a series of quick posts we're working on to give simple, actionable tips and advice that can help you make your website a little better and more effective. The first is one that not everyone will agree with, and even within the Bandzoogle team, folks have different opinions. Either way, here's ...
