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Streaming Is Now 75% Of U.S. Music Consumption [CHART]
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There were 403 billion on-demand music streams (video + audio streams) in the United States in the first half of 2018, according Nielsen’s 2018 Mid-Year Music Report. Using the industry standard of 1500 streams equals one album sold, that means nearly 270 million albums sold in the last six month. As this Statista chart illustrates, streaming ...
How I Raised $40K With My Email List Of Fewer Than 2K Subscribers
Indie musician Cheryl B. Engelhardt recounts how she successfully raised $40,000 with a record funding campaign, and why its important to change the “starving musician" mentality when it comes to your email list. By Cheryl B. Engelhardt from CD Baby's DIY Musician The first time someone (who didn’t share my last name) contributed to my record-funding campaign, I was floored. ...
9 Tips For Increasing Social Media, Streaming Likes
Summer is the slow season for some, but Ariel Hyatt of CyberPR believes that it is a great time to connect with fans and gain new ones. Here she looks at generating more Likes across social media and streaming sites. By Areil Hyatt of CyberPR Summer is ON! And it’s a great time to increase social ...
Duck Baker On Thelonious Monk
Duck Baker Plays Monk (Triple Point Records) Duck Baker (Richard Royal Baker IV) may not be a household name among jazz devotees at large, but in his career of more than four decades he has become a hero to other guitarists. He has led or been involved in dozens of recordings of folk music from all ...
Change Needed Before Net Can Drive Creativity and Prosperity, say Musicians, Academics
In this except from a submission made to the EU's National Telecommunications and Information Administration, a coalition of performers, musicians, and academics issue a plea to restructure the web as a place where creative culture can thrive. Guest post by Neil Turkewitz, this first appeared Medium This is an excerpt from a submission made to the NTIA ...
From Ownership To Access: Disruption In Music and Media [Mark Mulligan]
The music and video industries are often cited as prime examples of digital disruption and resurrection. But while plotting comparable paths towards access-based models, a closer look by MIDiA analyst Mark Mulligan reveals some very telling differences. By Mark Mulligan of MIDiA and the Music Industry blog Last Wednesday we held the third MIDiA Quarterly forum, ...
T-Bone Walker: T-Bone Blues
In the early 1940s, when African-Americans in the South and Southwest moved north to the Midwest and west to Los Angeles in search of job opportunities at war-time factories, they packed their souls. As the Great Migration filled cities such as Chicago, Detroit and Cleveland and South Central in L.A., transplants from places such as Mississippi ...
7 Tips For Musicians To Write Emails Fans Will Adore
Gone are the days when the only thing you had to be good at as a musician was music. Artists are now required to do their share of marketing and management, something which doesn't always come naturally. This article provides advice on how artists can craft effective emails which their fans are guaranteed to adore. By ...
Fan Pyramid: How to Identify 5 Levels Of Fans, Engage Them
Think of your fans as a pyramid with your most devoted and loyal fans at the top. Michael Brandvold and Jay Gilbert discuss the five levels of the Fan Pyramid and how to recognize and engage fans at each level. The number one things your fans want is recognition, according to the Music Biz Weekly podcast ...
"Groove" Holmes in Popsville
A good number of jazz organists of the early and mid-1960s were put in a box. Many of their albums from this period were larded with tedious original blues and a handful of ancient Songbook standards. This mind-numbing approach allowed labels to avoid steep copyright bills, but the strategy also resulted in countless dull cookie-cutter recordings ...
