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Even for Majors Labels, It's a Direct to Fan Future
UMG & Mozes Expand Latin Fan Outreach Direct to fan marketing and sales has been the indie d.i.y. mantra for months, and now even the major labels are getting into the game. With an increasingly fractured media landscape and a decreasing retail marketplace, what choice do they have? Recent surveys have shown that mobile interactivity trumps ...
Spotify Gets a Major Upgrade Unifying Cloud and iTunes Playlists in a Single Player
Details & A Video Introduction (UPDATED) After six months of development, Spotify has released a major upgrade that allows users to import tracks from their download library into the Spotify player along with a new Spotify Social feature that encourages music discovery. Users can friend each other to share tracks and there is full ...
Free SoundExchange Artist Webinar Today and 10 Reasons Artists Don't Register
Digital royalties collection group SoundExchange is offering a free webinar open to the first the 1,000 musicians to register today at 2:00pm EST. Participants will learn about SoundExchange, maximizing digital performance royalties , the process of getting their money, and activities in Congress that will affect their career. Daryl P. Friedman, VP, Advocacy & ...
Last.FM to Add "Play Direct" Indie Artist Program
But Don't Expect To Get Paid 10 days ago Last.fm dropped single track streaming pushing it off to scrobbling partners like MOG, Spotify and Hype Machine. Among those most impacted and vocally upset we're indie artists who had been gaining fans who used Last.fm as a music discovery platform. Music fans who wanted to know what ...
Nimbit Expands Direct to Fan Toolkit with nimbitPro
At the ASCAP Expo in Hollywood today, direct to fan services provider Nimbit announced the addition of nimbitPro, an improved suite of tools and services designed to allow artists and their teams to manage their direct to fan marketing and sales efforts via a unified dashboard. With nimbitPro, artists and their teams can use the dashboard ...
The 'Broken' System: Deconstructing Consumption
Kyle Bylin, Associate Editor (@kbylin) Edited by: Refe Tuma(@refeup) of Creative Deconstruction In our previous post we wrote aboutthe barriers of music consumption, gave an overview of how those barriers shaped the experiences of previous generations, and examined in great detail why the removal of such barriers recontextualized the ways in which ...
Paul McCartney Rejects EMI, Takes Catalog to Indie
It was not the news that a struggling EMI wanted to hear. Yesterday Sir Paul McCarthey revealed that he'd re-release his post-Beatle catalog through indie Concord Music Group. EMI had previously handled almost his 2 dozen albums of McCartney solo and fronting Wings under an exclusive license. The former Beatle worked with Concord on a 2007 ...
Facebook Partners with Pandora for Social Music
Pandora and Facebook will be deeply integrated according to an announcement at the F8 Developer Conference today. using Facebook's new Open Graph protocol, Pandora will stream music directly onto the social networker from bands that fans have “liked" using Facebook buttons placed on other web sites. Users can also see what kind of music their friends ...
A Look at the Top 6 U.S. Music Download Stores
A sample purchase of 10 rock, folk, country, and classical albums including six recent releases and four back catalog showed a distinct difference in the purchase price of tracks. The comparison is particularly interesting since iTunes owns Lala. SELECTION - According eMarketer in January of this year, iTunes had roughly 11 million tracks, Amazon sold 10 ...
Share Your Favorite Record Store Memories
Record Store Day is this Saturday April 17th and most stores have lots of great things planned. This year there are signs that with a little help from vinyl and used goods; but mostly by selling more than just music, the downward trend for indie record shops may be finally slowing. But that doesn't mean that ...
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