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Google Home Smart Speaker Sales Soar, Great News For YouTube Music
Two analysis of the smart speaker market paint a somewhat different picture. But both point to two trends: smart speaker sales are soaring and Google Home smart speakers are gaining ground on Amazon. That's good news for all music streamers, particularly YouTube Music. A new Strategy Analytics survey concluded that Amazon shipped 4 million Echo speakers ...
An Expert's Tips On Music Business Networking
While networking's value as a tool for getting ahead in the music industry has long been established, how to do it effectively, and what is exactly it is are somewhat harder to define. In this piece we hear some tips from a pro on what exactly makes for good networking. Guest post by Jason Blume of ...
Grant Green: Funk in France
Blue Note Records probably owes Grant Green's family an apology. The guitarist was the finest jazz guitarist of the 1960s, topped only by Wes Montgomery. Today, virtually Green's entire discography has made it into the digital age. But it may surprise many that a good number of his albums for Blue Note weren't released during his ...
Electrifying Track: Tranein' In
From time to time, I intend to focus on a single track that I find electrifying and represents a definitive work by a significant jazz artist. The purpose of such a narrow focus is to separate one song from an artist's body of work, put it in context with the time in which it was released, ...
The Reason Record Labels Hate Free Streaming Tiers
While streaming services may often be touted as the saviors of the music industry, label execs are no fans of the 'free tiers' offered by most of these platforms, arguing that the widen the music business's value gap. Guest post by Bobby Owsinski of Music 3.0 If you were to poll record label execs off-the-record on ...
Why Twitter Still Matters For Musicians
Although some self-promoting musicians may choose to eschew the platfrom, Chris Robley here details why the controversial social network still holds significant value for artists as promotional tool, particularly in comparison to some of the other social media platforms out there. Guest post by Chris Robley of DIY Musician Twitter lets musicians do three things they ...
How Record Labels Screwed Up The Music Industry, And How Spotify, Apple Saved Them
ALTERNATIVE TAKE: Mike Masnick explores the sordid history of how the record labels' behavior in the early days of the internet literally brought the music industry to its knees, and how these same labels have been saved by the tech industry led by Apple and Spotify. By Mike Masnick from Techdirt If you've been following how much the ...
Mixcloud Pacts With EU Licensor ICE For 12M DJ Sets
European digital music rights organization ICE announced a new multi-territory licensing deal with dance music-focused digital music service Mixcloud. Mixcloud’s new ‘Core’ licence deal with ICE covers PRS, STIM and GEMA repertoire for their combined 290,000 members and repertoire for some of the leading independent music publishers. Mixcloud currently has over 1.2 million content creators and ...
Vevo To Shutter Apps, Site And Stream Only Via YouTube
Vevo has announced that it will shut down its mobile apps and video web site in the coming weeks, and make YouTube its sole delivery platform. The shift also strengthens YouTube's dominance in music just as it launches its biggest push into paid streaming yet. Vevo is shuttering its mobile apps and web site, the music ...
How To Diversify Your Music Promotion Efforts
With music consumption habits changing so much in recent years and showing no signs of stopping, the techniques for promoting must also adapt. Here we look at the importance of diversifying how to promote your music. Guest post by Patrick McGuire from the TuneCore Blog It’s a complicated time to be making music. Factors like music ...
