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Fair Trade Music Initiative Launched
New artist-first movement seeks to improve artist compensation at critical time as digital music continues to grow in popularity and influence. Denver, CO—Frustrated with the ad-based, stream-for-free paradigm of digital music, the Fair Trade Music Initiative launched today with a simple premise: music, like all valuable art, should not be free. Musicians deserve to be paid ...
Fair Trade Music Initiative Seeks To Improve Artist Compensation
The Fair Trade Music Initiative is on a mission to foster a sustainable music ecosystem by giving fans an uninterrupted listening experience that fairly compensates artists through Mad Genius Radio. “It’s a sad but true fact that the first exposure many people had to online music was an illegal, free file-sharing service,” said Eric Neumann, founder ...
ArtistDirect, UlitimateMusic Sold For $1 Million [REPORT]
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In an online music world dominated by Pandora, iTunes and Spotify, it is tough for independent music sites to compete. Now ArtistDirect, one the web's original music destinations, is once again being sold. Ryan Kavanaugh's Relatively, the owners of online music retailer ArtistDirect, has reportedly sealed a deal to sell the company and related assets to an ...
Dan Aykroyd & Judy Belushi Announce Creation Of Blues Brothers Records
NEW LABEL DEDICATED TO NURTURING UP & COMING BLUES TALENT TO BE DISTRIBUTED BY BLUE NOTE RECORDS Dan Aykroyd and Judy Belushi have announced the creation of Blues Brothers Records, a new record label dedicated to the development of blues artists that will be distributed by venerable jazz label Blue Note Records, a flagship label of ...
Making The Case For A Freemium Reset
"Freemium absolutely can work as a model and it has achieved a huge amount already, but it needs recalibrating to ensure it delivers the next stage of market growth in a way that minimizes the risk to the rest of the business." Guest Post by Mark Mulligan on Music Industry Blog Ministry Of Sound’s Lohan Presencer ...
If Major Labels Are Dinosaurs, Why Do Liberty Media and Softbank Want To Buy One?
Looking for signs that the recorded music business has a future? Aggressive Liberty Media chief John Malone and a Japanese telecom giant each wanted to buy The Universal Music Group. Liberty Media head John Malone reportedly made an overture to Vincent Bolloré, the chairman and biggest shareholder of Vivendi, expressing an interest in acquiring Universal Music Group. According ...
Spotify To Pay Universal Music Group $1 Billion, According To Leaked Email
Spotify is locked in difficult talks with the major labels. None are more contentious than with Universal Music, whose CEO has stated publically that it is time to change the music streamer's freemium model. Spotify expects to pay Universal Music $1 billion over the next two years, according to a leaked internal email. That's a number equal ...
Rightsify Gives Rights Holders An Interactive Platform To View And Analyze Industry Data
Rightsify is bringing key data to rights holders and licensees by way of an easy-to-digest online dashboard that helps them better understand important industry trends to grow their business in the new digital world. Rightsify operates as a cloud based analytical system compatible with any royalty or revenue source. The platform streamlines data compilation, allowing users to ...
A Manifesto For The Future Of Free Music
In the thankfully long gone days of DRM downloads it could be fairly said that ‘music was born free yet everywhere it is in chains’. Now music is free of DRM and, for most consumers, of price too. Guest Post by Mark Mulligan on Music Industry Blog Of course the majority of consumers have always spent most of ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, March 6-12
It's a weekend of local heroes followed by a week of visiting legends and legends-in-the-making, from JT Bates' Organ Trio, Eric Gravatt and Dean Magraw launching a new weekly jazz series and Anthony Cox and pals in a live recording gig to visits from David Sanchez, Cassandra Wilson, and an ensemble with Jack DeJohnette and Roscoe ...
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