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The Anatomy of a Live Nation Concert Ticket
Digital Music News has posted on its site a breakdown of where all that money spent on a LiveNation concert ticket actually goes. Turns out most of it goes to the talent. Of the average $55.65 price tag for concert tickets for Live Nation shows in North America, $34-47 dollars goes to the artist. That's an ...
Bandcamp to Start Revenue Sharing with Artists
All good things come to an end and Bandcamp as a free service is no exception. The name-your-price music and merch distribution platform will being revenue sharing with the artists on its site. Bandcamp is being pretty fair about the whole thing, taking 15% of each transaction, dropping to 10% once an artist's all-time sales exceed ...
Audio Tech Roundup!
A quick search through the posting archives reveals that we have not put forth an audio tech roundup since June 3rd. The wait is over! In honor of it being Friday, we will end the drought and allow you to devour tasty bite-sized morsels of audio-related information. To get the ball rolling, check out the piezoelectric ...
RIAA CEO Extremly Well Paid
Lawyers aren't the only people the RIAA is throwing money at. CEO Mitch Bainwol receives a $1.91 million in annual salary, with “other compensation" from the RIAA and “related organizations" offering another $123,000. Over $2 million is a pretty astounding sum to take in when you're presiding over an organization that doesn't exactly qualify as a ...
RIAA Keeps Lawyers Well Paid
The RIAA has been investing in first-rate lawyers to fight copyright infringement. Unfortunately, they are not seeing much of a return on that investment. In 2008, the RIAA paid its lawyers over $16 million to pursue copyright infringement claims. Total recovery for these claims amounted to $390,000. Ouch. As if that wasn't bad enough, these numbers ...
Tag Strategic Founder Ted Cohen on Branding Your Band and Investments
With the New Music Seminar just around the corner (and a couple discount registrations still available!), we're previewing it by doing interviews with some of the participants. Yesterday, we spoke with Ted Cohen, the founder of TAG Strategic, a digital branding strategy firm that serves tech and media companies. Prior to founding TAG, Cohen worked in ...
Matmos on Unlikely Collaboration, and Embracing the Talents of Others
Matmos. Photo by AJ Farkas. Drew Daniel and Martin “M.C." Schmidt, who comprise the electronic music duo Matmos, are not what you would consider classically trained musicians. This is not necessarily a bad thing, of course (how many classically-trained pop musicians do you know?) and in this case, it doesn't really matter; Matmos's music, a ...
How to Tour a Foreign Act in the United States (Part Two)
Last week, Eric Herman, the president and co-founder of Modiba, a social-activist international music company based in New York City, offered us some excellent pieces of advice about how foreign artists can effectively tour the United States. Part two of his article is after the jump. Stay On Your Promoters Once your presenters have been ...
The End of Bertie Big Balls, and the Rise of Independent A&R
For the last 30 years, the A&R rep has been an enigma: What do they do? What don't they do? Today, with the entire industry in flux, there are even more questions: Are they still relevant these days? Were they ever? A&R reps are most certainly still ...
Better Than the Van Co-Founder Todd Hansen on How to Tour Smarter
Better Than The Van's Founders, Scott Miller & Todd Hansen Have you ever played a show to ten people somewhere in the hostile uncivilized territories of the midwest, slept in this very same van, freezing your ass off, curled up somewhere between an amp and a herniated disc? Better Than the Van co-founder Todd Hansen ...
