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Hot Track: A Kick Out of You
In March 1954, a year before his death, Charlie Parker recorded a Cole Porter songbook album for Norman Granz's Verve label. Charlie Parker Plays Cole Porter would be Bird's final series of recordings. On March 31, 1954, Parker recorded I Get a Kick Out of You. There were two complete takes, one with Jerome Darr on ...
Pandora Reports Solid Q3, 6.8M Paid Subscribers
Pandora reported a sold Q3, including adding 784,000 subscribers in Q3, reaching approximately 6.8 million for its various paid services. That's a fraction of Spotify or Apple Music, but when factoring users of its free service, Pandora has 68.8 million active users, down slightly, with total listener hours of 4.81 billion. It's the streamers first earnings ...
How To Apply Lean Startup Methodologies To Your DIY Music Career
In this piece from The Uptown Plug, they explore how to apply the strategy and methodologies of the 'Lean Startup' to an independent DIY music business career as we enter this exciting new time period in the music industry. Guest post from The Uptown Plug With the rise of digital platforms, streaming services, easy access to ...
MusicTank Closes Suddenly
MusicTank has closed after 15 years of providing music industry data and analysis. The sudden closure appears to have come after funding ran out and was announced on Twitter and the organization's web site. “After 15+ incredible years, with profound sadness I am sorry to announce that MusicTank is closing," wrote Jonathan Robinson, Programme Director, MusicTank. ...
4 Most Important Twitter Practices For Artists In 2018
Twitter has been around for over a decade now, and has helped make or break many an artists career. Here we examine which practices have allowed artists to find success on the platform, and will likely continue you to do so for the near future. Guest post by Hugh McIntyre of TuneCore [Editors Note: This article was ...
Benny Green: Then & Now
At its finest, jazz is music of miraculous combinations. The best jazz recordings are a result of two or more artists working together with spectacular results—Clifford Brown and Max Roach, Lee Morgan and Benny Golson, Sonny Rollins and Jim Hall, Sonny Stitt and Gene Ammons, and Bill Evans, Scot LaFarro and Paul Motian. Pianist Benny Green ...
Will Streaming Music’s Growth Alter Streaming Music?
It wasn't that long ago that the music industry was experiencing its worst slump ever, with streaming seen as a dubious alternative to physical sales. Fast-forward and streaming revenue accounts for 75% of label income. But how will this growth change the medium of streaming itself? Guest post by Bobby Owsinski of Music 3.0 It seems ...
Mastering Isn't A Dark Art, It's Simply Misunderstood
In the music business, mastering has gained something of a reputation as mysterious “dark art". The reality is that mastering is quite simple at its core and, while not as sexy or glamorous as being a rockstar, is an important part of the music industry machine. Guest post by Steve Corrao of the TuneCore Blog Here ...
The S.T.A.G.E.S. Of Email Marketing [Part 4]
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In this third part of a multi-part series on the break down of the ins and outs of email marketing, Cheryl B. Engelhardt looks at combining the middle two S.T.A.G.E.S. of Awareness and Gathering, and tackling them together. Guest post by Cheryl B. Engelhardt of the TuneCore Blog In this fourth part of the S.T.A.G.E.S. of email ...
Randy Brecker: Together
The UMO Jazz Orchestra is a Finnish band founded in 1975 and financed by the Finnish Broadcasting Company, the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture, and the city of Helsinki. See what life is like abroad? National governments feel culture is so important and vital to the public's well-being that they create budgets that sponsor musicians ...
