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ASCAP Revenues Fall 6%
A report just released by ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) shows a 6% drop revenue in 2010 to $935 million. Despite the decline ASCAP paid out $845 million in distributions to members, a decline of just 2.1%. They blamed the fall in revenue on the slower economy and court setbacks which lowered certain ...
Topspin CEO Ian Rogers: "Record Industry Encouraged People to Steal for 8 Years."
Recently, This Week In Start Ups interviewed Topspin CEO Ian Rogers. In the interview, they spend a great deal of time talking about the early days of the web and file sharing. It's great look into the evolution of the MP3 and the record industry's initial reaction to fan behavior. Oh, and if you're looking for ...
Here's Why Amazon Picked a Fight with the Labels
Some are writing volumes about how the labels are going to force Amazon to license their new Cloud Player and Cloud storage locker. The real story is that Amazon already intended to. But in meetings late last week, they told the major labels that they were about to launch what they believe they already could—a place ...
2001 Flashback - Experts Believe MP3 Can Be Killed
Pho, an infamous music industry and technology e-mail listserv, unearthed a great WSJ article from 2001 the other day. It documents the uptake in interest in the MP3 several months before the first iPod launched. The record industry wanted to make the MP3 obsolete, since it was an “unprotected" format, and it looked to the tech ...
Share the Soundtrack to Your Life with Soundtracking
This post is by Alison McCarthy (@aliiimac). She's an intern at Hypebot. In the last few weeks, there have been a number of articles posted on Hypebot about the growing social music experience. As Kyle Bylin discussed, prior to the rise of the new social musics apps we're currently witnessing, the technology made available through our iPods and ...
Tomahawk: Next Generation Music Player?
This post is by Robbert van Ooijen; it originally appeared at Have You Heard It. Last week a new music player got its first public release: the Tomahawk Player. In an era where music is often scattered across multiple computers and multiple platforms, the player aims to solve this problem by organizing all of your music in ...
The Post Consumption Fan Meets Amazon Locker
The race to the cloud heated up yesterday as Amazon jumped the gun on Google and Apple and got a running start. Expect responses from the latter companies soon. This increased emphasis on music lockers, however, could have unintended consequences that actually make the record industry worse off than if they had embraced Spotify and others ...
$7000 Per Copy Report Says U.S. Digital Sales Will Pass CDs in 2012
You could pay $6999 for Strategy Analytics' Digital Media Strategies report, “Global Recorded Music Market Forecast“ or I can just tell you that it says that that digital sales will pass CD sales next year in the U.S. For you're $7K they'll also tell you: Total recorded music sales in the US declined by 7% to ...
The Ecosystem Approach: Introducing Non-Linear Music Marketing for the Digital Age
This post is by Bas Grasmayer (@Spartz), communication advisor for official.fm and new music business thesis student. Over the course of the last two years, I've been intensively researching and writing about the new music business for my bachelor thesis about this topic. My main frustration with most advice I saw (and still see) popping up ...
