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Why Telling Artists to Stop Selling Music and Just Make Money Through Live Shows is Ridiculous
Giving away all your music for free and trying to make your living via other revenue streams can be a valid approach. Except that I don't know of any musicians actually doing that. The ones who do make all their music available for free are also selling it and some are doing just fine without touring ...
The Reasons Paid Music Downloads Are Going Downhill
By Tom Dillon of Evolver.fm. Paid downloads, the songs people pay for individually the way they do with CDs, have officially stopped their ascent. According to Nielsen SoundScan data, digital song sales dropped 2.3 percent over the first half of 2013 over the same period last year. In terms of the straight numbers, music fans purchased ...
mp3.com Domain for Sale for $1m+, is It Worth It? [michael Robertson]
By Michael Robertson, a seriel music tech entrepennuer and founder of the original MP3.com. His current projects include Dar.fm. I recently got a call from the owner of this iconic domain name asking if I was interested in buying the MP3.com domain name. MP3.com was the digital music pioneer I founded which offered free MP3 downloads ...
The Future of Music
Over the weekend, the Wall Street Journal/Europe ran my interviews with John Cale, Robert Glasper, Joan as Police Woman and Ari Picker on the future of music. Since the Europe edition is unavailable in North America and my interviews needed to be shortened to fit, I thought I'd make them available here in their entirety... Robert ...
How I Listen: Future of Music Coalition's Kristin Thomson
In our new series, How I Listen, we're asking industry leaders and artists to share how they discover and consume music. This edition features Kristin Thomson, Co-Director, Future of Music Coalition's Artist Revenue Streams Project. 1) What device(s) do you use to listen to music? At home: We have a three-zone Sonos system, including one in ...
Building a Music Collection in the Digital Age
By Aarti Kelapure of Evolver.fm. Recently, my editor lamented the challenge of collecting music when we find and listen to it from so many different sources. Without a one-size-fits-all solution, we end up forgetting some of the music we've stumbled upon across services. Other times, we come across something we don't have time to listen to, ...
Is Vlogging the Future of Music Marketing?
By Musician and Marketing Consultant Solveig Whittle (@shadesofsolveig). Vlogging is an increasingly popular communication medium, and I think it's a largely underutilized way for indie musicians to communicate with fans, perform live, do interviews, build their YouTube subscribers, and share information about themselves and their lives. Musicians might even find it an unexpected source of additional ...
Responding Positively to Bad Reviews with the Support of Your Fans
By Michael Brandvold @michaelsb of Michael Brandvold Marketing. What do you do when you get a bad review of your CD? A really bad review. It is something every artist will encounter at some point in their career. How you handle it and what you get out of the review can say a lot about how ...
Music Listening: Limited Attention, Abundant Choice
By Kyle Bylin of sidewinder.fm. When we talk about music, these two questions always come up: 1) Has music listening become a background activity? 2) Are music listeners overwhelmed by the plethora of options available online? In this interview panel, three thinkers in music and tech — Wesley Verhoeve (Family Records), Amber Horsburgh (Big Spaceship), Refe Tuma (music blogger) ...
Roundtable: Is Music Discovery a Feature or Product?
By Kyle Bylin of sidewinder.fm It's an important question. There are hundreds of websites and applications that promise to expose listeners to new music. But can they make money? Are they worth money? This is where the discussion becomes challenging for many music startups. They don't always provide value beyond what established services already do, and in many ...
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