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6 Ways to Fail at Promoting Music Online
On the Culture Bully blog, Chris DeLine takes whack at almost every indie band, label and publicist that ever tried to get the attention of a music journalist. “How to Fail at Promoting Music Online" is both a chronicle of bad behavior and a roadmap to more successful pitches. Here is a summary of Deline's beefs: ...
What You Need to Know About the New Copyfight
You may have heard rumblings and grumblings about a Senate bill that would “effectively destroy“ YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, Google+, and any other service that lets people post things on the internet. If a “directory, index, reference, pointer, or hypertext link" is found to distribute content without permission, the PROTECT IP Act (.pdf) would allow copyright ...
SoundHound: Delivering 1000 Songs Per Second Music Discovery
Music discovery app SoundHound has released stats that show it processing more than 4 million music searches per day and user engagement of more more than 1,000 hits per second. The traffic comes from a reported user base of base 50 million worldwide on iOS and Android. Competitors include Shazam. SoundHound upgraded its apps earlier this ...
Getonic: Buy Music Directly on Any Facebook Wall. No Credit Card Required
The focus for musicians to sell directly to their fans continues to intensify, and looks like it won't slow for the foreseeable future. By bypassing the labels and traditional distribution channels, artists are able to take home a bigger profit and form a better, longer lasting relationship with their fans. With this trend comes an increase ...
SoundExchange Pays out Record $88 Million
In it's largest distribution to date, SoundExchange announced that it sent checks totalling nearly $88 million to more than 18,300 payees during the third quarter of 2011. Total distributions made by SoundExchange in 2010 were $249.2 million, up from $155.5 million in 2009. The funds are statutory performance royalties paid to recording artists and recording copyright ...
HP Expands Music Influencer Program with Artist #talk Listening Parties
Hewlett-Packard (HP) is refocusing its Music Influencer program on smaller, influencer-heavy events featuring Arjan Timmermans of ArjanWrites.com as host. Dubbed ARTIST #TALK, these listening parties feature musicians and help spread conversations about HP products and their work with Beats Audio. The new phase of HP's Music Influencer program, ARTIST #TALK, was actually conceived by Arjan Timmermans, ...
U.S. Vinyl Record Sales May Be 6x Higher Than Soundscan Reports
The jump in vinyl sales—both for audiophiles and for fans who just love physical mementos—is well documented. But the trend may be far bigger than the industry previously believed. “SoundScan only gets about 15%," Vince Slusarz, the owner of top vinyl manufacturer Gotta Grove told the New York Times. Here's why: Last year, 2.8 million vinyl ...
Studies: Consumers Prefer Mix of Music Ownership and Free Streaming
eMarketer compares two reports on studies of consumer music preferences to reveal that not only do listeners prefer music ownership over subscription streaming but that they tend towards a mix of ownership and free listening. Given that the most recent survey reporting stats on streaming music would have been conducted before Facebook's F8 Conference, it remains ...
Steve Jobs on Facebook, Music and Google [video]
(UPDATE 2) In addition to the audio tapes of Steve Jobs played by biographer Walter Isaacson ruing last night's 60 Minutes interview, is a candid conversation only available on the web of the Apple founder sharing his view of rivals Microsoft, Google and Facebook. Jobs has harsh words for Google and Microsoft, but only priase for ...
How One Database Could Help Musicians Pay Rent
In over a decade of digital music writing, one of my favorite pieces is a Wired.com article called “4 Reasons Music Needs One Big Database." My argument there was that if every song had a unique identifier attached to it—the same identifier, regardless of the service where the song appears—it would solve all sorts of problems ...
