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Compatible Quotes: Life In Music, Music In Life

July 30, 2016

"Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music!" —Sergei Rachmaninoff “They teach you there’s a boundary line to music. But, man, there’s no boundary line to art." —Charlie Parker “Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life." —Ludwig Van Beethoven “My goal is to live the truly ...

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Spotify Starts Selling Your Fan Data Out Their Back Door [Chris Castle]

July 29, 2016

Spotify recently announced that it plans to start selling its free users' identifiable information to major ad companies using pattern recognition and other data mining techniques to profile fans before packaging them for resale. Guest post by Chris Castle of Artist Rights Watch Spotify announced today that it is selling its [actually the artist’s] fans to several ...

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UPDATE: $9 Million Later, Music Dealers Abruptly Shutters Sync Licensing Service, Musicians Go Unpaid

July 29, 2016

A music tech startup going out of business is often just another sad story. But Music Dealers raised big money and cut big deals. Now it's founder has moved on to a glitzy new startup co-founded with a former exec of the defunct synch licensing site's top former clients. The result: many artists are left without payment. Now. Music ...

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Why Artists Need To Embrace The New 360 Model [Cortney Harding]

July 29, 2016

As 2016 shapes up to be a landmark year for VR technology, it's time for artists to begin embracing 360 video technology. The cost of creating such content continues to drop, but the returns continue to increase, as the ways in which fans interact with live content continues to shift. Guest post by music tech consultant Cortney Harding It’s already ...

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Pokemon Go: A Competitive Social Formula For The Music Industry? [George Howard]

July 23, 2016

Here George Howard looks at how the social, fun, and competitive formula which has made Pokemon Go the massive success that it is could potentially work in the music industry, and the hurdles it would have to overcome to do so. Guest post by George Howard I’ve long believed that in order for any web or ...

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Record Labels Need Change Of Culture In ‘Dashboard Era’ Of The Music Industry

July 22, 2016

Music streaming data makes it possible to understand the fan behavior behind each stream. “But the way we translate this creativity into monetizable, digitally-mediated experiences requires a culture change" within the music industry," says Samuel Potts, the head of radio at Columbia Records UK. Guest Post by Samuel Potts, head of radio at Columbia Records UK As ...

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Canadian Music PRO SOCAN Acquires Jeff Price's Audiam "to finally fix the global industry problems"

July 22, 2016

In May, Canadian performing rights organization SOCAN acquired music and metadata delivery technology provider MediaNet. Late yesterday, they added Audiam, a digtal music licensing and royalty collection service, to their music tech portfolio. Canadian performing tights organization SOCAN has acquired Audiam. Founded in 2013 by TuneCore founder and former CEO Jeff Price and former TuneCore CTO David ...

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Warner Music No Longer Selling To Small Record Stores

July 21, 2016

As if they didn't already have it bad enough, mom and pop music shops have been dealt yet another blow with the news that Warner Music will no longer allow direct accounts with stores which do less than $10k in business with them each year. Guest Post by Bobby Owsinski on Music 3.0 In another blow ...

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Most Musicians Are Not Entrepreneurs

July 20, 2016

This article examines how, in the modern era, artists need to be able to not only make music but also effectively sell themselves, something which most musicians are not naturally good at, meaning they need a good entrepreneurial team on their side. By Matt Voyno of The New Rockstar Philosophy In my internationally published, award winning book, ...

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Is YouTube Not Music's Boogie Man After All?

July 20, 2016

Although YouTube been taking a lot of heat from the music community of late owing to its alleged failure to pay sufficient royalties, some of the numbers used to make this claim may be not be clear enough to fully condemn the service, a service which seems to be waning in popularity. Guest Post by Bobby ...