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What Are You Hiding? An Easter Eggs Primer for Musicians
One of the greatest ways to engage your fans is to play with them. Before you get any dirty ideas in your head, allow me to explain. On Wednesday, Andrew W.K.'s twitter followers got into a tizzy because their favorite party/animal motivational speaker has started hiding samples of his new air freshener around New York and ...
Here's a Better Version for Free - How One Band Responded to Their Song Getting Leaked
These days songs leak out. And if you have rabid enough fans, they'll start listening to, downloading, and postings such songs before you intended. But how do you respond? Threaten to sue. Say damning things. Maybe even quit music—forever. This band, not so much. Once Eisley found out that their new song “Smarter" had leaked - after having ...
Luke Lewis: "Streaming Will Stop Looking Like the Future - Which Means Piracy Will Flourish."
This grim end-of-the year forecast comes from NME Deputy Editor Luke Lewis. He starts off his article of digital music predictions for 2011 by saying that, “Streaming will stop looking like the future... which means that piracy will flourish." His reasoning: “Spotify lost £17 million last year, and key albums keep getting yanked from its library. Last.fm ...
Report: Piracy Sites Attract 53 Billion Visits Yearly
A report from security firm MarkMonitor states that 43 sites identified for piracy attract 146 million visits daily for a total of 53.29 billion a year. 67% of those 43 sites are hosted in North America or Western Europe and according to the study the 3 largest—RapidShare, MegaVideo and MegaUpload—collectively get 21 billion visits each year. ...
Nielsen Ratings at Odds with RIAA's Claim of 'Lost Sales"
In April of 2004 I was working on a piece for Keyboard magazine about bar codes. I was trying to determine if the “free" barcode many CD Replicators provide is a real added value to the indie artist, or just a bogus premium. But what evolved was a much bigger and more important story. Talking to ...
53 Billion Visits a Year...
How many visits are pirate sites getting in a year? Well, one security firm drew a circle around 43 'pirates,' and found traffic levels of 53 billion visits a year. MarkMonitorcounted a range of upload, torrent, and P2P destinations, though actual trades were not tallied (a critical component). “Traffic to sites suspected of offering pirated content ...
In Defense of Ultimate Chart - It's More Than Hype
After comparing the hype surrounding Ultimate Chart with the result, Richard MacManus, the Founder and Editor of Read Write Web, felt underwhelmed. Numerous publications and music industry thinkers, including myself, proclaimed Ultimate Chart to be nothing short of a game changer and a Godsend. So why, after all this publicity and enthusiasm, does Ultimate Chart look ...
Supreme Court Says Major Label Price Fixing Lawsuit Can Move Forward
The U.S. Supreme Court has made the decision to allow a lawsuit accusing the four major labels of conspiring to fix music prices to move forward. The labels appealed to prevent this from happening, but the Supreme Court has chosen not to stop the lawsuit. "The case is Sony Music Entertainment v. Kevin Starr, though it involves ...
Merlin "Concerned" Indies May Not Get Fair Deal from Google Music, Signs Deal with Rdio
Indie trade group Merlin has signed a deal with Rdio to stream the music of its members which include such key indie labels as Rough Trade, Epitaph, Naxos, Beggars, Merge and Domino. The deal fills a major hole in the Rdio offering. At the same time, a leaked email to Merlin members states that while talks ...
Filling Catalog Holes - Rdio Makes Nice with Merlin
Rdio filled a few catalog holes today by partnering with Merlin. This deal will give the streaming music service access to titles by top indie artists including Arcade Fire, Vampire Weekend, Spoon, The xx, The National, Vampire Weekend, The Pixies, Belle and Sebastian, Tim McGraw and Boards of Canada. The Rdio—Merlin relationship will initially focus on ...
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