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Grammys Cut 31 Categories. Indies Hit Hardest
The Recording Academy announced today that The Grammys are reducing award categories from 109 to 78. Hardest hit are indie labels and artists who often benefit from recognition in many of the eliminated categories. The minimum number of entries per category has been upped to 40 from 25. Award categories often won by indies that that ...
MTV Spotlights Music Tech for New Awards Show
MTV's new awards show, The O Music Awards, is now announcing categories and nominees. The best thing about it? Music tech companies are also getting recognized for their efforts. Unlike MTV's other shows, The O Music Awards will run year-round and continue to report on the changes in the digital music sector. This show, along with ...
9 Reasons Apple and Google Should Be Worried About Amazon
This guest post comes from Paul Lamere of The Echo Nest and his blog Music Machinery. For the last year we've heard rumors of how both Apple and Google were getting close to releasing music locker services that allow music listeners to upload their music collection to the cloud giving them the ability to listen to ...
Newscorp Begins MySpace Auction Wednesday
It feels like a race to the bottom, but at least the action has finally begun. After months of publicly bashing MySpace, parent NewsCorp is reportedly beginning the sale process in ernest on Wednesday. And, not surprisingly after months of tire kicking, there's no one bidder in the lead. Vevo, Providence Equity Partners and Silver Lake ...
Pick the Band - Fan Driven Online Label
(UPDATED) Pick the Band, a new online-only record label has launched what they believe to be an alternative to the traditional label business model that lets fans have a say in how the artists that they like are promoted and marketed. Fans pick the single, design the artwork and make the videos for the artists to ...
Facebook is Not the Sales Tool You'd Hoped For [chart]
It's pretty well proven that Facebook is a great way to find fans and communicate with them. But is it also a great place to sell? Some music commerce services like Moontoast have made Facebook sales tools their lead products, but a new Goldman Sachs survey shows that social networks may not be a major driver ...
8 Reasons Why You Need to Have Your Own Website
I was asked to write a guest blog on the topic of why it is important to have your own website. Well for whatever reason the blog was never posted and episode two of The Music Biz Weekly podcast reminded me that I still have this blog and that I should post it. This is a ...
Bands! - Social Networking is Not Just Online.
Post by: Robin Davey, Head of Music and Film Development at GROWVision. Before the internet was so ubiquitous with social networking, bands with a little knowledge of connectivity with their audience, would keep their own social network in the form of a physical mailing list. Email had yet to make an impact and artists were forced to get peoples ...
Does Pandora Imbue Impulsive Behavior?
In the past several months, I've spent lots of time using Pandora. Due to this, I've wondered if Pandora imbues impulsivity in us like email does. The reason why email is addicting is because it comes at varied times. In this sense, email is like a slot machine. We keep “pulling the lever" in hopes that ...
Bandsintown Debuts Facebook Tour Date App
In the past few months, Bandsintown has quietly been expanding its presence among artists and live music fans on Facebook with the release of their new, cross-platform tour dates app. While not the only concert app on Facebook, Bandsintown offers a particularly integrated solution. The app enables artists to manage and promote real Facebook events and ...
