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Century Media Pulls All Labels from Spotify to 'Protect Artists'
Heavy metal and hardcore label group Century Media has pulled all its labels from Spotify, according to the company, “to protect the interests of their artists". Labels include Century Media and associated labels InsideOutMusic, Superballmusic, Ain't no Grave Records, Hollywood Waste and People Like You. “Spotify in its present shape and form isn't the way forward," ...
Get Your Band National Media Coverage with Pendulum Pitching
I'm kicking off a series of posts about successful approaches to music marketing with some insights from Adisa Banjoko, a marketing professional based in the Bay Area who I first met while blogging at ProHipHop. Adisa has employed an approach he calls “Pendulum Pitching" with great success both before and after the Internet kicked in. Adisa ...
Wal-Mart Shuttering Its MP3 Download Store...
And today's lesson? It looks like price isn't the most important thing when it comes to music downloads. Once upon a time, Walmart was an 'iTunes-killer' with deeply-discounted, 88-cent MP3s. But discounts meant little compared to integrated iPod and iPhone integration, a superior iTunes user interface, and the tether created by stored credit cards (which Apple ...
Spotify: 1.4 Million American Users; 175,000 Paying...
Spotify has quickly amassed 1.4 million American users, according to stats just shared by the Wall Street Journal. And ofthat, 175,000—or 12.5 percent—are premium subscribers. Spotify has declined any official confirmation on the numbers—perhaps a worrying detail—though they did note that uptake “exceeded expectations" upon launch. Sounds like a great start, especially considering that Spotify has ...
5 Top Characteristics of Full Time Musicians
This guest post comes from Dave Cool, the Blogger In Residence at musician website and marketing platform Bandzoogle. I've now been involved in the Montreal music scene in some way for 17 years, and have seen many artists and bands come and go. Now that I'm in my 30's, I'm starting to truly understand what ...
Top New Music Industry Leaders Share Tips on Telling Your Story to Press and Fans
StoryAmp, a soon-to-launch self-marketing service for indie musicians is currently offering a free ebook, “Amplify Your Story: Getting More Press through the Art of the Pitch," as bait for future customers. It's an excellent guide to getting press and attracting fans by telling the stories of your life as a musician as well as the stories ...
Something Else! Featured Artist: Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin's image, dating back to the band's debauched 1970s heyday, has grown so outsized that it sometimes obscures, well, the music. After all, that was time when—as Rolling Stone's Stephen Davis famously wrote in a late-period Zep review—you could “give an Englishman 50,000 watts, a chartered jet, a little cocaine and some groupies and he ...
Billboard Pro Closes After Just 4 Months
Billboard has closed new registration to its independent and d.i.y. artist subscription site Billboard Pro after just over 4 months of operation. “We are not accepting new registrations at this time, pending a revamp and relaunch of the site later this year," reads a notice offering no hint of a relaunch date. Existing users paying $9.99 ...
Trumpeter Thomas Heberer's Trio on "Klippe," Solo Trumpet on "One" for "Clarino," a 2-LP Set
Trumpet stalwart Thomas Heberer is doing in his own way what a guy like Peter Evans is doing in the States. Making it new. Heberer's double LP Clarino (No Business LP 31/32) gives you two aspects of his music: “Klippe," a chamber trio offering, and “One," a solo trumpet record. Joachim Badenhorst brings his post-Giuffre clarinet ...
5 Ways to Turn Superfans into Super-Marketers
Sanjay Dholakia, CEO of Crowd Factory, recently shared his insights on encouraging teens to become superfans who will broadcast your message beyond the level of basic participation. Such fans are motivated by the chance to support artists they care about, hooking up their friends with rewards and receiving recognition for their supermarketer status. “How To Turn ...
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