FORBES reports, “VEVO, the YOUTUBE-style video platform owned by most of the major record labels in the music industry, announced today [5/25] that it is planning on shuttering its consumer-facing website and its consumer-facing apps. It isn’t clear exactly when these items will be gone, but they are not long for this world… though that’s not […]
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8 Essential Practice Exercises for Acoustic Guitar
by David Coleman onPicking up a guitar is a great feeling. Whether you’re just learning to play or have been an expert player for many years, you will need to have some practice exercises. These 8 Essential Practice Exercises for Acoustic Guitar can help you improve your guitar playing if you’re just starting out. Make sure that you […]
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It’s Official: Spotify Files For An IPO
by David Coleman onIt’s Official: Spotify Files For An IPO Earlier today, SPOTIFY filed for an IPO listing on the NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE, the NEW YORK TIMES reports. SPOTIFY shares will be traded under the ticker symbol SPOT. According to its filing, SPOTIFY generated had nearly $5 billion in revenue last year, a 39% increase from 2016. […]
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Spotify Facing $1.6 Billion Lawsuit Over ‘Massive, Systemic Copyright Infringement’
by David Coleman onIn a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in LOS ANGELES, WIXEN MUSIC PUBLISHING is accusing streaming service SPOTIFY USA of streaming millions of unlicensed songs in what it calls “massive, systemic copyright infringement.” NBC reports, “the suit includes a 265-page list of thousands of its songs that WIXEN says SPOTIFY is streaming without proper licensing […]
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Universal Music Group Reaches Licensing Deal With Facebook
by David Coleman onUNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP has inked a global deal with FACEBOOK to license its recorded music and publishing catalogs to the social media giant for use in video across its Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and Oculus platforms. Users will be permitted to upload videos with licensed music from UMG under the agreement, and the companies plan to […]
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How come your prices are so much better than that other company?
by David Coleman onGet 1,000 CDs in Jewel Box w/2-Panel Insert for only $949* Plus, we’ll throw in Elite Distribution FOR FREE (a $100 Value) Why pay more money just because someone sends you a catalog? That would be ridiculous and wrong, right? So how do you right your wrong? Well, you seek the best quality at the best price. […]
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1,000 CDs for HOW MUCH???!!!
by David Coleman onI got HOW MUCH for that stream?! In an age where every source of revenue seems to be drying up, CD sales at shows are one of the last viable, profitable options for making money from your music. After all, you can’t buy lunch with that $.0003 you reap from a stream, right? And you […]
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Fender Launches NEW Digital Learning Program Today
by David Coleman onFender Musical Instruments Corporation (FMIC) today announced the launch of Fender Play, a first of its kind video-based learning platform for desktop and iPhone, poised to innovate the guitar education landscape. Fender Play is designed to change the way beginning players learn how to play guitar through hundreds of easy-to-follow, instructor-guided video lessons utilizing a […]
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Pandora Reaches Out To Record Companies For Help
by David Coleman onPANDORA MEDIA has made a move to reduce pressure from shareholders, asking major record labels for money or better deal terms to help the webcaster reverse losses. BLOOMBERG reports, “Top executives at PANDORA have reached out with a couple of proposals for their counterparts at the record labels, which sell PANDORA the rights to vast […]
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The Global Sync Market Is Set To Explode For Indie Artists and Labels
by David Coleman onThe amount of money pouring into record companies from sync keeps on growing. According to IFPI figures, record companies accrued $355m from licensing their tracks to video games, movies and TV in 2015 – up 6.6% year-on-year. The US is the world’s largest sync market, accounting for 57% of 2015’s revenue with $203m, while other […]
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A Q&A Discussion with Owen Kwon and Marc Finer About High Resolution Audio
by David Coleman onWe all know that the world of recorded music is always changing. High resolution audio has already penetrated the audiophile marketplace. Now it’s the mass market’s turn. In order to bring everyone who loves music up-to-date on the status of high resolution audio, we turned to the ultimate sources — Owen Kwon, President of Astell&Kern, […]
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iTunes Music Is a Big, Fat, Bloated Disaster of an App
by David Coleman onEntire iTunes collections are going AWOL, downloads are getting mangled, IDs are fighting with one another, and Apple Music is acting weird again. What needs to change? Has iTunes become an unmanageable monstrosity? In the latest battle against its own ‘bloatware,’ Apple sent two engineers to a user’s home after 122 GB of his personal music collection vanished […]
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One Billion People Will Be Paying For Music By 2021
by David Coleman onAccording to John MacFarlane, CEO of Sonos, the music industry will hit a billion paying music streaming users and it will only ”take around 5 years” (so by 2021). Interesting… But how? ”Apple and China will take the lead” and everyone else will follow, says MacFarlane. (1) Apple effect The early entrants in the music streaming market […]
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Musicians, Check Out Instagram’s New Analytics…
by David Coleman onInstagram is launching analytics for businesses and brands that use the platform, according to a post on the Later.com blog. The new feature will be called ‘Insights’, and will provide information on the demographic of a users’ followers, including location, age, and gender. Besides follower analytics there is also a section that will focus on post analytics. Providing follower […]
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Does Life Really Have to Suck for Songwriters?
by David Coleman onRead enough articles, and you’ll think songwriting is in the throes of decline and decay. In Nashville, the number of songwriters has been decimated since 2000, according to one tally, and even hit songs are producing paltry payouts (according to another). Composition licenses are also at the root of a major legal actions involving Spotify, Rhapsody, Xbox […]
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Tidal Is Growing Faster Than Apple and Spotify COMBINED
by David Coleman onTidal subscribers are surging at unprecedented rate… In fact, since Kanye’s album dropped exclusively on Tidal in February, the platform has doubled its subscriber number. Now, it’s added at least another one million thanks to a Beyonce exclusive. All of which means Tidal has nearly tripled in size in about three months. That’s a 200% […]
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What It Takes to Become a Spotify Top 200 Artist
by David Coleman onHow many streams does it take to get into the Spotify top 200? Charting on Spotify can change things for an artist, and potentially alter an entire career. But most artists (and even labels) have no idea what it takes to climb into the coveted top 200 ranking. Now, there are some concrete stats: according […]
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Hi-Res Music Streaming: It’s Becoming Impossible to Ignore
by David Coleman onBack in November last year, DMN reported the unveiling of the new ‘Hi-Res MUSIC’ logo for digital download services. Now the RIAA have announced that the Hi-Res music logo is going to be available to music streaming services as well. “The expansion of the Hi-Res MUSIC definition to encompass streaming technologies reflects the continued evolution of the marketplace to […]
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