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Signmeto Roadrunner Records is Fan-Sourced A&R
(UPDATED) Roadrunner Records has launched a new service called SignMeTo. The idea behind the site is to allow fans and unsigned bands to take part in the A&R process. Users operate as scouts and seek out unsigned band profiles, rating them according to their preference. As users interact with and rate more artists, the amount of ...
Bands as a Business: Invest Money in Marketing
This is second part of my interview segment with Paige X. Cho, who is the Administration and Promotions Manager for digital distributor Valleyarm and author of the Melbourne music blog Paper-Deer. In this part, Cho talks about the importance of bands thinking of themselves as a business, how pop suffers the most from file sharing, and ...
Why Piracy is Good for Innovation
This guest essay is written by Robbert van Ooijen. He recently graduated on online music and music piracy at the master New Media & Digital Culture at the Dutch University of Utrecht. Van Ooijen also blogs at HaveYouHeard.It. Last Tuesday, ARS Technica reported about the US government's upcoming list of the world's “notorious markets" for copyright ...
Warner Music Group Plannning $750m EMI Bid
Terra Firma's Guy Hands and EMI CEO Roger Faxon claim they have no intention of selling EMI. But its doubtful that their largest lender Citigroup agrees, and since loosing his lawsuit woth the bank, Hands may have no choice. Eager, as he has in the past to take advantage of EMI's struggles is Edgar Bronfman Jr's ...
What is Indie? An Unsigned Artist, Plain and Simple.
Recently, I spoke with Dave Cool, who is director and producer of the documentary film “What is INDIE? A look into the World of Independent Musicians." In it, he chronicles the experience of being an indie artist in the music industry and strives to define and challenge the term “indie" itself. In part one of this ...
What's the Best Time to Release Your Album?
[This guest post was written by Jem Bahaijoub, the founder of Imagine PR, a music marketing and PR agency based in Washington, D.C.] All too often, musicians rush their new album's or EP's release without considering what the best time-frame for that release may be. Just because your album is done doesn't mean you have to ...
Jazz Forward Coalition: "Business of Jazz" Launch
A Global and Unified Voice For Jazz Jazz is as vital as ever, with vibrant local scenes, active educators and thousands of jazz recordings released each year. However, the jazz community lacks a central organization to coordinate and maximize its vast resources, and must take a mainstream new media approach through social and professional networking. The ...
Too Much Choice Overwhelms More Casual Fans
I've written extensively about how abundant musical choice may not always be a good thing for fans. This video by Sheena Iyengar, one of the leading researchers in choice theory and author of the now famous jam-study, makes a point about the difference between novice and expert users. In music, casual fans may find too much ...
On Management in the Music Industry
"Music enterprises must be able to strategize and plan in order to create value for its customers." None Like Joshua writes on Music Think Tank about strategy, planning, and management in the music industry. He emphasizes the importance of aligning a company's core values and vision with customer values. Planning is essential to creating a targeted ...
Will T-Shirts Save Music? Results of Hypebot's Merchandise Sales Survey
(Updated) Are increased merchandise sales helping to offset lower revenue from recorded music sales? Or is that just another bit of new music industry wishful thinking? Just 34% of those that took Hypebot's recent poll thought merchandise was helping all that much. But the poll, while not a scientific survey, did offer insights and a bit ...
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