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Understanding Spotify: Access over Ownership [Jay Frank]
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By Jay Frank on FutureHitDNA.com Young people prize “access over ownership”. This sounds like the kind of thing a digital music strategist like myself would be saying to support streaming services like Spotify. However, that’s not where the quote comes from. This was said by Sheryl Connelly, who is the head of Global Trends and Futuring for the Ford Motor ...
What's With This Uncool Surge in Jazz Bashing?
How did jazz lose its position as America’s homegrown musical treasure to lately become a symbol of pretentiousness and 'eat-your-broccoli art'? Jazz doesn’t get much coverage in the mainstream media, and hasn’t for many years. But something strange has happened during the last four months. Over a period of just a few weeks, a host of ...
The Dangers of Positive Thinking: Bursting the Music Industry Feedback Bubble
By Alex Jae Mitchell, Co-Founder and CEO of Audiokite Having listened to probably more than a thousand artists as a songwriting contest judge and music startup person, I’m no stranger to giving feedback to musicians. And I have a confession to make: rarely is the feedback I give 100% honest. I’ll hear a track with major ...
How to Fix Streaming Music's Business Model
Op-ed by David Lowery of The Trichordist. It’s not that streaming can’t work. It can. It’s that Spotify is a bad business model that has unsustainable economics and exploits artists because it is a wall street financial instrument and not a music company. We’ve previously published a couple posts on streaming music where we explore how access ...
Why You Should Stop Sending so Many Press Releases to the Music Press
By Lueda Alia from Alueda. Last night, I came across an article titled “I Read and Replied to Every Single PR Email I Received for a Week” by Zach Schonfeld, which describes my daily, exhausting experience with my inbox(es) all too well. Many years ago, reading press releases was the best way to keep updated with ...
Are Low Music Sales Simply Due to Bad Music?
Guest post by Peter Getty. In 1991, Nielsen Soundscan started tracking album sales around the world. Back then, this data gave us valuable insight into current tastemakers, what genres were growing in cultural significance, and generally who the world was listening to. Lately, Soundscan’s reports are nothing more than a simple reminder that the music industry ...
The Streaming Effect: The Landscape May Be Gloomier Than Pictured
"The Streaming Effect: Assessing The Impact Of Streaming Music Behaviour" is a new report from MIDiA Research focused on the music market's reaction to streaming music options and the effects of listeners' choices on music sales. Listeners have an array of easy free choices, described in the report as a “hierarchy of free," from which to ...
Musicians: Give Up Your Fear and Create Music That Speaks to This Generation
By Prince Charles Alexander from the Sonicbids Blog. In 1979, I hated “Rapper’s Delight.” You could have shut down hip-hop right there for me and called that a novelty record. How dare they steal Nile Rodgers’ hard-earned intellectual property! Besides, I had just put out my first single and that record was taking up my airtime ...
Declaration of a New Alternative: No Pop
By Toronto music blogger/reviewer The Lonely Vagabond. In the digital age, in the age of social media, in an age where the music business model has virtually disappeared, the silos between eras and genres no longer exist. Commercial and non-commercial is the new paradigm. In a brief moment of inspiration I coined a new term, No Pop. ...
"Fifteen years of utter bollocks": how a generation’s freeloading has starved creativity
Arguments for digital piracy are drivel – it's high time we steered away from this cultural cliff, argues author Chris Ruen. Driving down civilisation road, it takes effort to grapple with the ramifications of our choices along the way. Out of basic self-interest, we often ignore our own effects upon the world. You throw your rubbish ...
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