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Who Says College Pep Band is Boring? These Students Rock to Rage Against the Machine
George Mason University has the best college band class ever. Hands down. In preparing for pep band, this teacher is showing his students how to rock out to the music styling's of Rage Against The Machine. As Digital Music Insider cleverly quipped, “And now you do what they taught ya." The things to watch out for ...
Billboard Targets Indie Artists with New Pro Service
Billboard has launched a new subscription-based service that targets indie artists and their entourage. The service, Billboard Pro, offers personalized artist analytics that track online and social network activity, airplay, and sales, among other things. Subscribers also gain access to editorial that focuses on artist-focused how-to's guides, case studies, and industry profiles. Members also gain access to ...
Twitter Study: Just .05% Generate 50% of Action
A new Yahoo Research study confirms that Twitter is more of a hierarchical broadcast network than a social network. A striking concentration of attention on Twitter—roughly 50% of tweets consumed—are generated by just 20K elite users. Media produces the most information, but celebrities are the most followed. The study also found a significant homophily within groups: ...
Another Study Predicts Cloud Music to Boom
Earlier this month, ABI Research predicted that cloud music to boom in the next five years, reaching a subscriber of 161 million by 2016. They believed that smartphone penetration, a lowering in price, and an emerging Asia-Pacific market would give services like Spotify and Rhapsody a boost. Now, Juniper Research is saying similar things; they suspect ...
A Psychological Analysis of Record Industry Decline
Everyone has their own theory on why the record industry is in decline. In part, they all hold a grain of truth. Hundreds of things helped exacerbate the process—some obvious, others not. The diagnosis will always remain open to speculation. After ten years (or more) of the smartest minds in various fields prognosticating and predicting the death ...
Streaming May Topple Music Industry Iceberg
The IFPI reports that digital sale grew a meager 5.1% last year and that in the U.S., growth was almost flat at 1.2%. These numbers and chart that accompanies them aren't that shocking, but they do illustrate why the major labels are both excited for Google and Spotify to come to the market, yet terrified about ...
Amazon Beats Apple, Google with Launch of Unlicensed Cloud Music Locker and Player
(UPDATED) Overnight Amazon beat both Google and Apple to market with the launch of a freemium cloud based digital media locker and robust integrated music player that accesses stored tracks across multiple computers and Android devices. The four major labels were informed late last week of the move which, Amazon insists, does not require them to ...
Phil Ramone, Larry Rosen, Larry Miller Form Roba to Create iPad and Android Tablet Music Apps
Music industry veterans, Larry Rosen (GRP Records), Phil Ramone (producer for Streisand, Dylan, Elton John), Larry Miller (AT&T's a2b music, Or Records) and entertainment attorney Leslie José Zigel have formed ROBA Interactive to develop iPad and Android tablet music apps. Their goal is to create a more immersive and interactive digital music experience. ROBA's patent-pending app ...
Simple, Effective Cross Promotion - Folk Artists Cover Each Other's Singles, Tour U.S. Together
Love a fellow musician's song? Do they love your music too? Perfect. Cover each other's singles and take off on a tour of the U.S. That's the strategy being employed by folk-singer Joe Pug and Philadelphia's Strand of Oaks. Before the tour launched, Pug covered “End in Flames" by Strand of Oaks, and Strand of Oaks ...
Another Industry First: Music Royalties Fall 1%
For the first time, PRS for Music reported a 1% annual fall in total royalties. Why the decline? PRS suspects that digital piracy and a fall in high street sales are to blame. Royalties are down £7m to £611.2m in 2010, the Guardian says. Recorded media royalties also “fell 8.8%." According to PRS CEO Robert Ashcroft, ...
