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Rewind: Bandcamp Charges for Free Downloads, Billboard Targets Unsigned Artists, Amazon Shuts Down Amiestreet, Songza Gets a Facelift, and More
(UPDATED) This week in the music and record industries tons of news broke. Major announcements relate to Bandcamp, Billboard, iTunes, Ping, and Eminem. As well, The Hypebot Hit Song Contest wound down and we are more than happy with the results it garnered. Take a look through this week's recap of the news and make sure ...
Apple Says Go to Distributor to Get iTunes Ping Artist Profile and TuneCore's Response
Ever since Ping launched, there has been a bit of confusion and discontent about how indie artists can get their own Artist Profiles on iTunes 10's new social network. Today came the answer. “Those interested in creating Artist Profiles on Ping should contact their label or aggregator," an Apple spokesperson told Hypebot. “iTunes is working directly ...
Interview: Jared Moya, Chief Editor of Zeropaid PT. 2
This is the second half of my interview segment with Jared Moya (read part 1), who is currently the Chief Editor of ZeroPaid.com. In it, Moya talks about the merits of embracing chaos, the Great Reset in the music and record industries, and how new ways of working and living will drive the post-crash prosperity. Putting ...
Music, Community and File-Sharing; Fan-Funding Techniques; and Merch Table Essentials
This week there are three great essays over at Music Think Tank worth checking out, covering topics ranging from merch table essentials, insight into fan-funding, and the evolution of music communities. Take a moment and read through these insights into various aspects of the music and record industries: Music, community & file-sharing: from Napster to Ping. ...
Video: Google Instant Search Takes On Bob Dylan
Yesterday Google announced Instant which speeds up its already fast results by predicting your search as you type. To demonstrate the new feature, which will roll out in the coming weeks, Googles used the famous video for Bob Dylan's “Subterranean Homesick Blues," combining his flash cards with phrases from the song with Instant search results of ...
Corey Taylor of Stone Sour and Slipknot: "I Refuse to Think That the Record Industry is Dead..."
At age 35, Stone Sour and Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor is old enough to long for the days when the liner notes of an album where like the holy grail to music fans. Like him, I remember studying their contents for hours and reading through the acknowledgements section. It's interesting to me though, because I recall ...
Did You Miss Re-Launch of songza.com? Don't.
Lost in the media coverage that AimeStreet was being been bought and shut down by investor Amazon and that the AmieStreet team's focus was shifting to Songza, was that a slick new version of Songza.com also launched. The new ad supported Songza enables groups to collaborate to create a shared online radio station from a library ...
IODA and Next Big Sound Integrate Data
IODA and Next Big Sound have partnered to incorporate digital sales activity data from online retailers into NBS's new Premier analytics platform. This affiliation will integrate digital distributor IODA's sales data, allowing their clients to get real-time social media activity along with their sales data from digital retailers. Clients will be able to view this data ...
ASCAP Members Now Get 25% off Tunecore
(UPDATED) In an effort to expand their member benefits, ASCAP has partnered with TuneCore and is now offering their base of almost 400,000 songwriter, composer and publishers a 25% discount on distribution to digital retailers. **A reader pointed out that this deal, for now anyways, is only good through the end of October. I imagine there ...
Free Downloads Are No Longer "Free" in Bandcamp
Almost two months ago, Bandcamp switched from a free to paid service. Some of their users were less happy than others, but, from my understanding, a number of them loved the company so much that they didn't mind helping them diversify their revenue streams and stay afloat. This new announcement could prove to be slightly more ...
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