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Pledge Music Offers a Free Data Capture Widget

July 17, 2010

Pledge Music, a direct-to-fan fund raising platform, has developed a widget that allows artists to collect email addresses, Facebook fans and Twitter followers in exchange for a track. The widget is free to artists, completely customizable, and gives statistics and analytics that provide insight into who is viewing, listening and sharing.  Pledge Music also has a ...

Jeff Price of Tunecore "Apologizes" to Silverman

July 16, 2010

Jeff Price, CEO of the digital music distributor TuneCore, has been vocal about his disagreements with Tommy Silverman in the past, but when charged with the account of helping clutter the music environment with crap in a recent WIRED feature on What's Wrong With The Music Biz, Price became quite apologetic: “We're sorry that the ...

Greg Rollett: Outsource These 5 Things Now and Focus on Your Music

July 16, 2010

So many musicians that read our site or go through some of our training go back to the same problems. They are musicians, not marketers or internet superstars.  This post is not meant to be an argument for the musician / businessman, but rather for those that want to get some things off their ...

MidemNet Lab Calls for Music Tech Start-up Entries

July 16, 2010

MidemNet Lab, an international pitch platform for innovative music and music tech start-ups, is opening a call for entries for the 2011 edition. The event, now in its 2nd year, is doubling the number of companies that will have the opportunity to promote themselves during the Lab, which goes from January 23-25.  Companies wanting to enter ...

Numubu: Social Networking for Musicians and the Music Industry

July 16, 2010

Numubu, a social networking site for musicians and music industry professionals, is out of beta and offering $25,000, 5 iPads and more as prizes to entice signing on. The company is also developing tools to help market and sell music. Most of Numubu's offerings are free, but there is a premium membership that includes a share ...

TuneCore Launches Several Upgrades

July 16, 2010

Digital music distributor TuneCore has made several improvements to their service that will enable artists' music to go live more quickly at digital retail, be categorized more accurately and show up in more searches.  Artists can now do bulk uploads, allowing them to upload up to 20 songs at once and have their music delivered faster ...

ReverbNation Improves Their Facebook App

July 16, 2010

ReverbNation has made improvements to their Facebook app “My Band."  The additions include a more attractive layout and design, free custom header banner, fan-exclusive downloads, tour map with show schedule with details, enhanced sharing mechanisms, and links to retailers like iTunes and Amazon, among other things.  To check out how the new app looks and feels, ...

Bandcamp to Switch from Free to Paid Service

July 15, 2010

After several years of offering free services, music marketing and sales platform Bandcamp announced today that it will be switching to a paid platform in early August. Bandcamp will  charge artists 15% of each transaction, dropping to 10% as soon as an artist, management or label's all-time sales exceed $5,000.  The revenue share rate for existing ...

In 2008 the RIAA Paid out $16m, Recovered $391,000

July 15, 2010

NPD Survey: iTunes in Cloud Worth $1b in First Year

July 15, 2010

A new NPD Group study based on just under 4000 consumer interviews predicts that between 7 and 8 million iTunes users in the U.S. have a strong interest in paid music subscription options. Those surveyed indicated a willingness to pay a minimum monthly fee of $10, either for streaming music or access to their personal music ...