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Help Wanted! - FMC Artist Revenue Streams Project
The Future of Music Coalition has launched a project that seeks to assess if and how musicians revenue streams are changing. They're looking to conduct in-person interviews with a small but diverse set of musicians and composers to collect information about the ways that they're currently generating income from their music, performances or brand, and whether ...
Even Software is Now More Popular Than Pirated Music Online - And Porn is Downloaded the Most
I still remember the glory days. Somehow, Audiogalaxy became installed on our home computer. My brother must have done it. In one night, I could download twelve to fourteen songs—almost an entire album! We had 28k dial-up Internet. The kind that when you connected, it tied up the phone line and made horrible sounds. I lived on ...
Tuncecore Poll Shows 44% of Musicians Don't Copyright Their Music
A new Tunecore Soundcheck poll shows that a surprising 44% of musicians do not protect their work by copyrighting it. Reasons varied from “I don't know how. to “cost ($35 and up) to “It's too expensive" and “I don't see the need." Poll results and resources on how and where to copyright your creative output: SoundCheck ...
YouTube Says Free Music Now Pays as Well as Paid Music Plus What That Means for Music Streaming
Citing growing traffic, a 200-300% jump in advertising revenue over the last year and an imporved Content ID system that allows music rightsholders to profit from infringing content (like videos of cats singing Lady Gaga), YouTube says that free content on its site is often returning as much revenue as paid music. “Our larger music partners ...
Where Local Music Ecology Goes when It Dies
The record industry is dying. That's what we're told. The corporate behemoths have for too long gouged music fans and screwed over artists. Thus, the digital revolution is equal parts murder and suicide. Major labels shot themselves in the face and everyone else dug their grave. Yet behind the scenes of this tragedy, something much worse looms. ...
How To: Invest Tax Return into Your Music Career
This post is by Robin Davey of The Hoax and The Bastard Fairies. Interview. Those who watched the State of the Union may have caught wind of the President's plan to help small businesses with certain tax breaks. To clarify, it allows businesses to write off the full amount of qualifying equipment or software for the years 2010 and 2011. Normally ...
Defining Success: What It Means to "Make It"
This post is by Hypebot intern Hisham Dahud. His Twitter: @HishamDahud. Throughout my young music career, I've encountered far too many people obsessed with this idea of “making it big"—of becoming some sort of popular music star; with the word “big" associated with attaining a high degree of fame. For these people, how much closer they are ...
Why Hyperlocal Music Blogs Matter [interview]
Recently, I spoke with Jordan Stepp, Editor in Chief of Athens Music Junkie. Stepp started writing about the music scene in Athens, GA in 2008. Since she has interviewed and reviewed bands and artists from all ends of the spectrum, from local greats R.E.M. and Widespread Panic to little indie startup groups like Misfortune 500 to ...
New Approach to Fight Music Piracy Needed
Not a week goes by where we don't write one story that involves or mentions music piracy. To this day, it's the number one industry discussion topic. How do we curtail it? Are there any solutions? Today, I read one suggestion by that was insightful and clever. Like anything, I'm sure there are a few perspectives ...
Cash Music's "Seed" is Creating Free Digital Tools for Musicians and You Can Help
What Wordpress did for bloggers, non-profit CASH Music hopes to do for musicians. They've been creating free open source digital tools for for several years, and now they are reaching out to artists and the industry to help complete their most ambitious project yet, Seed. Details, A Video Intro & How You Can Contribute: Seed is ...
