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3 Sites To Help You Determine Your Brand
While most musicians would rather focus their artistry on what they do best (music) there are a number of visual components when it comes to building the branding necessary to achieve industry success. Here we look at three sites that can make this process much easier. Guest post by Susan Paulinksi for the TuneCore Blog It can ...
Sony Music Buys $185M Stake In 'Peanuts' Brand
Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) has today announced that it has acquired a stake in the iconic ‘Peanuts’ brand. Created by Charles M. Schulz in 1950 and owned by Nova Scotia-based DHX Media, Sony purchased 49% of DHX Media’s 80% stake in ‘Peanuts’ for $185 million. DHX originally acquired the ‘Peanuts’ brand as part of a $345 million ...
Frank Sinatra and Ernie Freeman
As I recall growing up in Manhattan in the mid-1960s, the Beatles were only big in bedrooms. Kids listened to Fab Four 45s on their portable phonographs sitting on the floor next to their beds or heard the group on AM radios under their pillows. Outside the bedroom, in the world I encountered—the living rooms of ...
Could Spotify Buy Universal? Should It? [MARK MULLIGAN]
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Vivendi has been openly exploring spinning off Universal Music Group. Publically the talk is of a possible IPO, but the rumor mill has spun out several scenarios, including a purchase by Apple or Alibaba. But what if Spotify bought UMG? Could that bold move solve its ongoing profitability problem? By Mark Mulligan of MIDiA Vivendi is ...
Sam Trippe's Short, Tragic Career
Painfully little is known about trumpeter Sam Trippe's career. Based on my research last night, Trippe was born in 1923 and grew up near Rochester, N.Y. He married in 1945 and lived with his wife, Dorothy, in the village of Endicott, N.Y. According to a 1946 ad in the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, Trippe played jam ...
Earl Zindars and Bill Evans
To fully understand the music of pianist Bill Evans, it's essential to know the works of composer Earl Zindars. Evans recorded several of Zindars's songs, including Elsa, How My Heart Sings, Mother of Earl, Lullaby for Helene, Quiet Light and Sareen Jurer and the two were close friends. Today, Zindars' pieces sound like the spirit of ...
How New Streaming Methodology Will Impact Billboard Charts
Billboard recently greenlit some promised changes to how music streams would be weighted when assembling their Hot 100, with the new methodology lending more weight to hybrid paid/ad supported services than those supported by ads alone. Guest post by Sammy Pisano, Manager, National Accounts at The Orchard from The Daily Rind After announcing potential adjustments to their chart methodology in October ...
Warner Music Quietly Launches Free Tunecore Competitor
Warner Music Group has quietly launched a digital music distribution service that is a direct competitor to Tunecore, CDBaby and DistroKid. Level Music, which WMG has never announced it's involvement is live online, accepting artists and offering some additional service. A video walkthrough of Level Level Music has launched as a digital distribution platform for unsigned ...
What Sweden Has To Tell Us About Streaming's Future
Although none of it is shocking new data from the most recent IFPI study has given us a glimpse of what a later stage streaming economy might look like, thanks to the numbers coming from Spotify's home country of Sweden. Guest post by Bobby Owsinski of Music 3.0 The latest IFPI annual study on last year’s global music sales ...
Taking Flight Again: Twitter Is Making A Comeback
While it's future seemed to be somewhat on the rocks for awhile, Twitter seems to have bounced back to relative stability, posting a second quarter of profits and showing substantial user growth. Guest post by Bobby Owsinski from Music 3.0 For a while it looked like Twitter would eventually become a casualty of the social media wars, as its user ...
