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10 Best Social Media Management Tools
As the social media landscape continues to shift, promoting your events on social media, be it a tour or a merch sale, has grown increasingly difficult, particularly where organic reach is concerned. Here we look at ten of the best social media management tools that can help you up your promotional game. Guest post by Alyssa Torres ...
Music Consumption Trends and What They Mean
As we dive into 2018, it's important to take a look back at some of the music consumption data from last year which shows an unsurprising bump and streaming, as well a rise overall. Guest post by Bobby Owsinski of Music 3.0 As we enter into the new year, it’s sometimes useful to look back at ...
Democrats Set To Force Vote to Save Net Neutrality
The end of net neutrality has wide reaching implications for the musicians, music tech and the broader music industry. The Trump controlled FCC has gutted the regulation, which guaranteed equal access to the internet. Now Democrats in Congress, using the Congressional Review Act, are offering a glimmer of hope that it can be saved. Democratic senators on ...
The Power Of Music Nostalgia
Here Fred Jacobs explores how his dives into music data and analytics has revealed that, while the technology surrounding music has changed dramatically, nostalgia still has an incredibly powerful on consumer's listening habits. Guest post by Fred Jacobs of Jacobs Media I enjoy my role as “Data Whisperer” – taking available analytics and research and identifying ...
40% Say They Would Gladly Pay More For Music
How much will consumers pay for music? A new survey conducted by MusiComms of 5,000 consumers across all demographics and regions in the United States offered some surprising, contradictory and yet hopeful trends amoun music fans. A new MusiComms surveyed asked 5000 U.S. consumers questions like: How much will consumers pay for music? Will they ever pay ...
Scott Yanow Reviews Tony Adamo For The L.A. Jazz Scene
Scott Yanow Reviews Tony Adamo For The L.A Jazz Scene Published: January 01, 2018 A fine singer, Tony Adamo is also a master at what he calls hipspokenword." He enjoys interacting with major jazz musicians while telling stories having to do with the music and life in general. His lyrics and narratives are intelligent, ...
Lenny Breau and Ron Halldorson
Few guitarists are as admired by fans and musicians alike as Lenny Breau. He played a 12-string electric guitar with a natural swing and elegance. treating the instrument like a piano. He'd play single-note melody lines while accompanying himself with chords, much the way a jazz pianist performs on the keyboard. Except with Breau, what you ...
Why Does Apple Want Shazam?
The recent acquisition of Shazam by Apple for a relatively modest 400 million has left many wondering what the tech giant could want with the music identification service. Given that Apple has had similar infrastructure for some time, it seems the purchase was likely motivated more by interest in Shazam's historical user data. Guest post by ...
BuzzAngle Year End Music Report 2017: It's All About Streaming
Music data firm BuzzAngle Music has some good news for the recorded music industry, unless one loves old-fashioned purchasing habits. Album and song sales dwindled in 2017, dropping 14.6% and 23.2% respectively, with physical sales declining only 7% percent, according to BuzzAngle. Audio stream consumption leaped 50.3 percent to 377 billion streams, up from 127 billion streams ...
What Music Has In Common With Bookstores And Swiss Watches [Jack Kelly]
Despite their turbulent sales histories and brushes with obsolescence, print on paper books and Swiss watches have both managed to make impressive rebounds and have of late shown steady profitability. Here we look look at some important takeaways that could potentially apply to the music industry. Guest post by Jack Kelly of the Adva Mobile Blog ...


