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4 Major Live Music Trends Changing The Industry This Year
It may only be February, but the year 2017 has already proven itself to be one of major change for the live music industry. Here we look at five different trends, whether it's a rise in activism or immersive theater, that are reshaping the live music business. Guest post by Rachel Grate of Eventbrite We’re just one ...
What Really Happens To Your Concert Ticket Money?
The price of concert tickets has, in many places, risen to astronomical levels, but that doesn't stop fans dropping their cash on show anyways. Here we take a closer look at exactly where all this money actually goes when the dust has settled. Guest post by Bobby Owsinski of Music 3.0 The concert ticket you buy today ...
Songtrust Partners with DotBlockchain Music
Songtrust has partnered with DotBlockchain Music for the second phase of its creation of a “decentralized global database of music rights, combining the publishing and the performance information into a unit of music that the industry can use." The problem that Dotblockchain aims to solve involves the separation of copyrights creative material from the creators and ...
Thanks Alexa, Music Streamers See Lift From Amazon Echo
With more than 14 million consumers in the US now users of an Amazon Echo device, the conversation has once again shifted to music in the home, and whether Amazon will be able to make strides in the streaming market in 2017. Guest Post by Russ Crupnick on MusicWatch Based on the 15th edition of MusicWatch’s ...
Nielsen Completes Gracenote Acquisition
Nielsen announced on Wednesday that it had completed its acquisition of entertainment metadata provider Gracenote. Gracenote's data and technology is a key element of user interfaces and programming guides and includes everything from song data on compact discs to multichannel video programming distributors (MVPDs), smart televisions, streaming music services, connected devices, media players and in-car ...
With Music Marketing, Data Is Power
Although the digital age has been harmful to the music industry in a lot of ways, it has also opened the door to some valuable data-driven marketing practices, several of which Raffi Keuhnelian outlines here. Guest Post by Raffi Keuhnelian on Forbes Not that long ago, music marketing relied on sending press kits and mixtapes to DJs, ...
Major Labels Under Gun In The Carpenters, Sales v. Licensing Case
The age old dispute between artists and labels over digital download revenues is once again rearing its ugly head, with Richard Carpenter having recently audited his label A&M/Universal, revealing a rash of under-reported downloads. Guest Post by Erin M. Jacobson, Esq., it first appeared on Forbes The dispute between artists and labels over the income earned ...
SoundExchange Pays Out Record $884 Million Amid Uncertain Future
SoundExchange announced that its royalty distributions in 2016 were $884 million, an increase of more than $80 million over the previous year and an all time high. The record comes amid uncertainty over how SoundExchange revenue will be affected by an increasing number of direct deals between digital broadcaster and rightsholders. “We distributed record-setting royalties to artists ...
Billboard Adds Pandora To Chart Data
Slowly, the Nielsen Billboard charts are evolving to reflect how people actually consume music in 2017. The latest data to be added comes from Pandora. Billboard is adding streams from Pandora to its highly valued Hot 100 chart. Pandora streams will also impact other streaming-based charts, and Hot 100 formula-based genre rankings including Hot Country Songs, Hot ...
HMV Canada Is Bankrupt, Closing All 102 Stores
January 27th is being called “the day the music died" by many Canadians. That's the day that an Ontario judge approved bankruptcy for Canada's largest music retailer HMV. On Friday January 27th, an Ontario Canada Superior Court of Judge approved placing HMV Canada into receivership. The application was filed by HUK 10 Ltd, a subsidiary of ...
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