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Digital Music Prices: Is Cheaper Better?
If you visit Amazon's digital music store and browse the top albums chart one thing you might notice is how low the prices are. Almost every album is “on sale" in some way making it one of the cheapest places to buy digital music. On the other side, glancing at the iTunes top album charts you ...
How Music Streaming Services Could Help Artists, Fans, Labels, Charities and the Music Industry
Guest post by Benji Rogers (@benjikrogers), Founder & CEO of PledgeMusic. I'm not into streaming. I've never really made a secret of that, and as such it occurred to me that rather than simply bashing it and those who seek to profit from it, I should come up with a solution that would make it work ...
Are Music Fans Craving Exclusivity?
Unless you've been hiding under a rock, you'll most likely be familiar with Amanda Palmer's impressive KickStarter campaign (she's raised over $750,000 through the crowd-funding platform). At risk of being 'one more to add to the list', I want to focus on what we can learn from her and what the success of her campaign suggests ...
Jazz on the Bosphorus: Troubled Waters
by Francesco Martinelli
For seven years now the rather laboriously named Istanbul Jazz Center (confusingly the logo includes the letters “JC's," I don't know why) has been one of the major clubs of the Turkish city. Situated in the posh neighborhood of Ortakoy, in the shadow of the first Bosphorus Bridge, its schedule has featured major international jazz stars ...
Can We Rebuild/Reboot the Jazz Audience?
In the always thoughtful NPR jazz blog A Blog Supreme editor Patrick Jarenwattonan poses the question “IF not jazz education, what will rebuild the jazz audience.” In the piece he cites a music educator who questions the tired old saw that suggests that if we just pour more money into jazz/music/arts education in general we will ...
New Music Stats - Yearning for Audio Quality
Here are some sobering stats that I found on the Smart Money site and a great infographic that sums them up. The most frustrating thing for everyone in the music industry these days is the reality of digital music sales. As you can see in the graphic, digital sales have not replaced the revenue from the ...
'Taps' Turns 150 Years Old
Taps—the American bugle call that today is played solemnly at memorials and soldiers' funerals—has a fascinating history. In today's Wall Street Journal (or online here), I write about why the 24-note song was conceived in 1862 and how it evolved over the years. In the longer online version at WSJ.com, I also include rock and jazz ...
Fanculture: Building a Fanbase as a Lifetime Relationship
FanCulture: The Evolution of Influence is a nearly 30-minute documentary focused on the relationship of brands with their fans. Created by Amplify, an agency specializing in “brand strategy, experiences and amplification," the documentary is somewhat of a meditation on the nature of fans and their interest in brands from a group of marketers and superfans. In ...
BAM: Bremen Art Music?
by Francesco Martinelli
[Editor's Note: It's been quite a few years since Italian writer, music educator and general provocateur Francesco Martinelli last contributed to All About Jazz. Having recently returned home from Jazzahead! 2012 in Bremen, and with the current debates about the meaning, future and relevance of the word “jazz" fresh in his mind, Martinelli posits an alternate ...
Musicians: Stop Building an Email List
Guest post by Chris Rockett of Music Marketing Classroom. I know the title of this post may seem a little bit weird considering I have been banging on about fan capture for the past guzumteen years, but hear me out... Something was buzzing around my head this morning that I probably stole from somewhere but let's ...
