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TuneCore Encourages Members To Opt-In To $25M Spotify NMPA Settement, Artist Advocates Cry Foul
Spotify and the NMPA are contacting artists and publishers encouraging them to sign on to the $25 million settlement they negotiated over unreported and unpaid royalties for unlicensed streams. This week, TuneCore reached out to the artists using their music publishing platform encouraging them to opt-in. TuneCore sent an email this week to the tens of thousands of ...
How Live Music Can Save Itself From Disruption [Cortney Harding]
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While the live music market is strong and getting stronger, it may soon struggle, as increasing numbers of potential concert goers opt for a night in. It's time that the music industry take steps to make live shows more enticing. Guest post by music industry and music tech consultant Cortney Harding The timing for this piece, at first glance, seems ...
Reaching Millennial Fans Using Old School Billboards At Music Festivals
How to market to millennial consumers is a great mystery for most main stream marketers. It turns out that one of the best ways to reach millennial music fans- particularly superfans- is a very old school form of advertising- billboards. By Clyde Smith for Dash Two With Coachella kicking off the music festival season and images ...
Don't Count SoundCloud Out Yet...
With significant losses SoundCloud has been taking a significant amount of heat. Still, among the many streaming services, there are still a lot of things SoundCloud gets right that its competitors do not. As it expands its paid service in the UK and Ireland, we take another look. Guest post by Michael Kostaras from Berklee's Music Business Journal SoundCloud’s ...
Lessons From Prince And His Struggles With Digital Music
In addition to his legacy as an artist and performer, Prince also had, throughout his career, a complex relationship with the world of digital music distribution, and while he certainly tried many different tactics when it came to making his music available to the public, it's unclear just how successful he was. Guest Post by Zach Graves on ...
YouTube Exec Says "No other platform gives as much money back to creators"
YouTube has recently come under fire from labels and some in the music community both for its Content ID system and the size of payments to creators. Now, a top YouTube exec is pushing back with a rebuttal that offers Google's point of view. By Christophe Muller, Head of YouTube International Music Partnerships Lately, there’s been a ...
Ticketfly Scores 2 Big Wins In New York City
Pandora owned Ticketfly has scored two big wins in NYC: The Bowery Ballroom and Mercury Lounge. They join 200 venues and promoters who have switched from Ticketmaster. Jazz Near You is a Ticketfly affiliate and sells tickets via the Jazz Near You website, the Jazz Near You weekly eblast and the Jazz Near You app. Learn more ...
Led Zeppelin Could End "Stairway To Heaven" Lawsuit For $1
Led Zeppelin are facing a jury trial for alleged copyright infringement of their seminal hit “Stairway to Heaven." A District Court Judge has ruled that the hit was similar enough to the '67 instrumental “Taurus" by Spirit to warrant a trial. But the plaintiff's have offered Led Zep an easy way out. Attorneys suing Robert Plant and ...
This Startup Used A Chatbot To Sell $1M In Vinyl Records In 8 Months, Scores $3.5M Investment
Chatbots—"a computer program designed to simulate conversation with human users, especially over the Internet"—are all the rage in tech circles. Mark Zuckerberg says they'll transform Facebook, and an 8 month old startup has used one to sell $1 million in vinyl records. Online vinyl store, The Edit, has sold $1 million worth of records since launching ...
Rhapsody, Napster Report Usage Growth
On the heels of Rhapsody International's appointment of Mike Davis as its first CEO, the company announced new stats showing the highest consumer engagement in the company's history. Music streamer Rhapsody and it's international brand Napster say that the combination of recent product innovations and global partnerships have pushed average user playback worldwide up by more ...
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