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9 Critical Things You Should Know About Music Publicity Before You Make Your First Move
By Ariel Hyatt, a regular contributor to MusicThinkTank, whose Ariel Publicity is an indie music focused digital pr firm and educational experience wrapped up in one very cool package.. I just got back from teaching social media master classes throughout Finland, Norway and Iceland and many musicians asked me to help them understand what traditional publicity ...
Just How Much Does Rhapsody Pay Artists?
Last week, Paul Resnikoff of Digital Music News asked some basic questions about how much the music streaming services pay labels/artists. He had a hard time getting detailed responses from any of the firms he contacted, including Rhapsody. Here's how I'm paid for my self-released albums in the Rhapsody catalog: 1. A penny per stream. For ...
So What Should MySpace Do Now?
Last week Specific Media CEO Tim Vanderhook and Justin Timberlake discussed MySpace at Advertising Week. Their pitch was to marketers and they described themselves as the “Hulu of Music" in keeping with their ongoing effort to reposition themselves as a music community rather than a social network. Given that this is a reiteration of their summer ...
Bjork to 'Takeover' eMusic
This summer eMusic debuted eMusic Radio featuring staff curated streaming music channels. Now Bjork is helping eMusic launch their new Artist Takeover program featuring Bjork's editorial selections in celebration of the release of her Biophilia album Bjork's new album, Biophilia, caught a lot of attention earlier this year for her decision to release mobile apps for ...
Ian Rogers: The Evolution of Web Distribution, a Mass of Niches and the Era of Trusted Brands
On Thursday afternoon, Topspin CEO Ian Rogers was a keynote speaker at Digital Music Forum West. His speech, which follows in its entirity, begins with a quick trip through the evolution of internet distribution and onto where we are now: the era of social distribtuion. Next, Rogers shares where he believes we're headed—a mass of niches ...
RCA Hits "Refresh", Closes Arista, Jive and J Records
As part of a major rebranding and consolidation RCA is closing three of its most successful labels “In an effort to refresh RCA Records, all label imprints —J Records, Arista Records and Jive—will now be under the iconic RCA Records label," read a statement from RCA issued Friday. No word yet on more staff cuts, but most ...
Jay Frank Launches DigSin: A Next Generation Free Digital Music Label
(At Digital Music Forum West today, Jay Frank is launching DigSin, a digital music company that offers subscribers all releases free. A departure from the usual record label model, DigSin will focus on single song releases from new artists with a goal of maximizing the listening audience. Ex-Yahoo! and MTV Networks executive, Frank is familiar to ...
Indie Artist Scotty James Goes Door to Door and into the Music Industry
The story of Canadian busker Scotty James, who took his act door to door and in the process found a manager, is similar in some respects to that of radically different acts who've made it online like Odd Future and Kreayshawn. What these acts share is not only a facility at using networks to build support, ...
A Guy Named Brian Camelio Wants a Cut of Your Fan Funded Project
On February 8, 2011, ex-Journey studio musician and record producer Brian Camelio was awarded U.S. Patent No. 7,885,887—"Methods and apparatuses for financing and marketing a creative work" which he assigned to his Fan Funded, LLC , the operater of a company called ArtistShare. Since then Camelio repeately contacted fan funder KickStarter “to discuss ArtistShare's patent and ...
