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Jonathan Coulton on His Business Model and How Now is Best Time Ever to be a Musician
NPR's Panet Money recently featured successful d.i.y. musician Jonathan Coulton (@jonathancoulton), dissecting his success and asking if other musicians could follow a similar path, Hypebot's look at the interview “How Jonathan Coulton Made $500,000 Last Year As A D.I.Y. Musician“ received heated comments and questions that he's agreed to answer. But first, we wanted to share ...
Facebook and Spotify Partner for New Streaming Music Service
Facebook and Spotify are partnering on a streaming music service that could launch as early as next month in countries where the music site has deal, according to Forbes. The association is part of Facebook's long term strategy to become an essential hub for its users—messaging, email, news movies and now music. Details: Facebook users will ...
The Battle over Venue Sales Reports to Nielson Soundscan and Billboard
Earlier this month, Billboard and Nielson Soundscan issued a new set of guidelines for reporting music sales at venues and ticket/album bundles. Documented venue sales are combined with other sources to determine position on a many Soundscan and Billboard charts. Most controversial, was a new requirement that fans buying a CD at a venue must sign ...
Napster Co-Founder Sean Parker Says Now is the Time to Invest in Music
Sean Parker, the co-founder of Napster and Spotify investor, says that now is the time to invest in music. He's particularly interested in the record labels and publishing companies. “In the last 10 years we have presided over the greatest destruction in value in the history of the music industry," Parker said during e-G8 conference this ...
Aftra Union Demands Money for Artists from $105m Limewire Settlement
The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, AFL-CIO—a national union of more than 70,000 professional recording artists, performers and broadcasters—praised the recent $105 million copyright infringement settlement against LimeWire, and said it will fight to make sure that the labels pay all artists fairly. “AFTRA is moving quickly and aggressively to ensure that the settlement ...
Levon Helm Does Well by Doing Good
Supporting good causes is one way for musicians to show that they are making a positive contribution to society while making it clear that their success is about being part of a community rather than simply profiting from a community's interest. Though one may understandably feel that one's music is the main contribution an artist can ...
Tunesat Gets $6m from GE for Audio Fingerprinting
TuneSat, an audio fingerprinting technology that enables rightsholders to track music usage on TV and the net it has raised $6 million in a funding round led by General Electric Pension Trust. Gracenote founder and former CEO Scott Jones together with several existing TuneSat investors, also participated in the round. Jones and Carlos Monfiglio of GE ...
30 Seconds to Mars' Jared Leto on Creativity, Community, Content and the New Path to Success
Jared Leto, the actor and singer-guitarist for rock band Thirty Seconds To Mars, has found success by intentionally not following the rules. Leto considers himself a “content delivery machine" constantly involved in a conversation with his fans. His goal is to build community. “Why else would a bunch of people who don't know each other show ...
3 Major Labels Say They'll Share Limewire Settlement, but New PR Nightmare Emerges
When Hypebot and others suggested that, based on previous statements, none of the $105 million settlement that LimeWire is paying to labels was unlikely to find its way to artists, the RIAA contacted us to say that they really weren't in control of who got the money. So we went to the four major labels and ...
Google Translate Inspires Both Youtube Hit and Beatboxing Tool
Google Translate was originally created by the internet giant to lower language barriers and make global web content more easily accessible. But in yet another testimony to the power of Google's free and open API's, several inventive artists have been inspired to use Google Translate to create music and in one case invent a genre. The ...
