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Selling Music Audiences to Advertisers is the Future of Recorded Music Revenue
By Audience Development Executive Paul Goldstein of The Content Is King. [OpEd] Uncertainty rocking both the broadcast radio and record industries has opened an enormous opportunity for recording artists and record labels. Growth for the music industry will come from expanding the overall online radio audience and ad pie at the expense of broadcast radio. When ...
Amazon's Contract Reveals Plans to Radically Lower Streaming Music Royalties
By Rachel Bailey of the Sonicbids Blog. [OpEd] Jeff Bezos’s online mega-store, Amazon, is the Walmart of the internet. In the two decades since its launch, it has positioned itself as the low-price leader of the web and expanded to become a clearinghouse for all manner of media, gadgetry, and other ephemera. But what many of ...
Buzzangle Music Preparing to Pose Serious Challenge to Soundscan's "Fuzzy Math"
A lot of folks in the music industry are somewhat underwhelmed by SoundScan's approach to reporting sales especially indie shops and small labels who feel their contributions are underreported. You may have heard of BuzzAngle Music already due to recent reports of their Record Store Day sales data. I had the opportunity to talk with Jim ...
Indie Labels Speak out Against Negative Effects of Major Labels on Record Store Day
Earlier this year I wrote about concerns related to major labels' getting into vinyl and sucking up more of the limited time of current vinyl pressing facilities. However that's just one of the problems affecting indie labels and record stores for whom Record Store Day was created. But even if indie shops withdraw from RSD as ...
Case Of Mistaken Identity Endangers St. Louis Jazz Landmark
When Mother Nature dealt a deathblow to the long-neglected Castle Ballroom in Midtown St. Louis, in the form of high winds that collapsed the building’s sidewalls, Pat Brannon, proprietor of South City’s famed Casa Loma Ballroom, never dreamed the aftershocks would impact his business. But confusion surrounding the two ballrooms that both begin with the letter ...
Eddie Condon: New York, 1964
Before the Swing Era, when jazz was shaped by jny Kansas City's big-band dance beats, Chicago's frantic small-group sound was hot. Among the Chicago greats was guitarist Eddie Condon, king of the rhythm-keepers. In 1964, ABC in New York broadcast a Carnegie Hall tribute to Condon featuring the cream of the Chicago gang. Part 1... ...
Big Data Changed How We Measure Success
By Emmanuel Legrand of Legrand Network. This story was originally published in French by IRMActu. Who's No.1? How do you assess and define success? Who are the most popular artists and recordings at any given time? Ever since there has been a music industry, these questions have obsessed record company executives and artists alike. And to ...
Bandpage Raises $9.25 Million in New Funding
BandPage, a free online marketing and monetization platform for musicians, has raised $9.25 in Series C funding. The round was led by previous investors GGV Capital and Mohr Davidow Ventures and brings BandPage’s total capital raised to over $28 million. BandPage launched in 2010, becoming a hugely successful Facebook app. Surviving several major shifts in Facebook's rules ...
UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador, World Jazz Legend, Herbie Hancock Supports Master-Jam Fest
The author and Producer General of Master-Jam Fest, Mikhail Freidlin received the letter of gratitude and support from Herbie Hancock, jazz legend of the 20th century, one of the most influential jazz musicians of modernity, 14 Grammy Awards winner, UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for Intercultural Dialogue and UNESCO International Jazz Day founder. Dear Mr. ...
Musician Seeks $5.2 Billion in Damages from Apple, Amazon and CD Baby
By Tim Cushing, republished from techdirt. The laws surrounding IP can certainly be absurd, and the ever-extending copyright term has turned the phrase “for a limited time" into a joke in search of a punchline. But there's nothing so absurd as those who take these laws into their own hands, find a lawyer willing to represent foolsand pursue supposed infringement in ...
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