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Survey: Is Merchandise Helping to Offset Lower Recorded Music Sales?
As sales of recorded music have fallen, the importance of merchandise sales has grown for most artists as well as many record labels. But with the world economy stalled and ticket prices soaring, are merchandise sales really helping to fill the income gap? To find out, Hypebot is asking readers to share how they are doing ...
People Like MTV. but Not as Much as They Like iTunes...
Perhaps the level of ubiquity and comfort surrounding iTunes is too frequently underestimated. But 'iTunes killers' rarely live up to their names—and even major brands have difficulty competing with this app. In fact, among music properties, iTunes narrowly edges out MTV on the Facebook front. These are the number of 'likes' for each: iTunes (7,071,721)
Top Five Ways Apple is Killing off the CD
Slowly but surely Apple is killing off the CD. The hands of its greatest enemy and ally, depending on who you ask, are murdering the lifeblood of the record industry. It may not happen today, tomorrow, or a year from now. However, if Apple has anything to say about it, this will happen. The CD will ...
10 Things Bands Can Do to Book More Live Shows
Looking to play more live shows? On our Music Think Tank blog, Chris Bracco gives 10 things you can do to get more gigs. Things such as creating a YouTube channel, making business cards, networking, and getting creative can help get your music out to the masses. A great way to get more gigs is to ...
MTT: The Music Manipulation Curve (Theory)
Bruce Warila discusses the constant trend of moving toward easier listening formats that allow for personalization on demand. Sites like Pandora utilize user feedback and hire professionals to break down songs and figure out what to recommend to listeners. Bruce thinks that services that feature “ubiquitous, on-demand streaming (or even downloading) of any song, brilliant user ...
Can You Dig It? Emporer X Buries New Songs Around L.A. for Fans to Find
Singer-songwriter Chad Matheny has been recording albums under the name Emperor X for years. He's gotten a little attention, but certainly not broken through to anything close to mainstream success. Now Matheny's started burying his new songs in the ground and giving fans clues as to how to find them. Recently, Matheny walked to a rock ...
Google Shares Impressive YouTube Stats
Google shared some impressive Q3 earnings numbers this week and for the first time broke down a bit more of how they achieved it. While Google didn't share specific revenue numbers for YouTube, they did say that they are now monetizing an impressive 2 billion views per week. That's a jump of 50% from last year. ...
What the Lawyers Are Hearing
Just like we said would happen, last night the New York Law School held an event called “Monetizing the Band: How to Be a Working Band in 2010." Just like we didn't expect, however, the room was crawling with entertainment lawyers. Not that there's anything wrong with that, mind you. We love entertainment lawyers! Some of ...
The Top 13 Things We've Discovered in the Digital New World...
Hey, we couldn't resist—hope you enjoyed the Columbus Day weekend. Here are the top lessons the music industry has 'discovered' in the early days of this 'digital new world.' (1) It's really, really hard to sell music to fans online. Whether the iTunes Store or Rdio, getting fans to allocate even modest amounts of their income ...
What Will the Next Decade in Music Look Like?
That's a big question. One that I promise that I don't have the answer to. It's provoked by the fact that ten years ago this week, Shawn Fanning graced the cover of Time Magazine. The cover raised the question, “What's Next For Napster?" Indeed, by now, most of us know that story all too well. Both ...
