[ad_1] Music branding lessons for new artists. Whether we’re driving, checking email or just surfing the web, it can feel like the whole world is trying to sell us something. Digital marketing experts estimate we see 4,000-10,000 ads per day, so naturally we can’t remember all of them. If you’re an indie musician and you’re […]
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Top 3 Sites For Independent Artists Who Want To Sell Merch
[ad_1] While artists may typically think of music sales as being their primary stream of revenue, merch sales can also be a fantastic way for independent artists to put food on the table. Here we look at the top sites for getting merch out to fans. ______________________ Guest post by Raquel Dixit When you think […]
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Marilyn Manson Axes Twiggy Ramirez, Alice Glass Exits Crystal Castles As Music Confronts Its Own “Weinstein” Problem
[ad_1] As a growing number of women out movie mogul Harvey Weinstein for decades of sexual abuse, the music industry is being forced to confront its own culture of harassment. This week rocker Marilyn Manson parted ways with his longtime bassist Twiggy Ramirez after rape allegations surfaced; and Canadian electropop group Crystal Castles lead singer Alice […]
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The Billboard Charts: Can They Be Valid Without Including YouTube?
[ad_1] Tracking the position of a song or album was much easier for Billboard when such things were based strictly on sales, but in the age of streaming they’ve been forced to adapt how they get their numbers. That said, one service is still being conspicuously left out: YouTube. ___________________________ Guest post by Bobby Owsinski […]
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Music Biz Conference Announces Nashville Dates Thru 2020
[ad_1] [UPDATED] The Music Business Association (Music Biz) conference will stay in Nashville through 2020. The already announced 2018 edition will be May 14-17 at the Omni Nashville Hotel. But the following year, the action moves across the street to the new JW Marriott hotel. The next Music Biz conferences are set from May 5-8, 2019 and May 11-14, 2020, at […]
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Facebook Tests Change That Is CATASTROPHIC For Music Marketing
[ad_1] Facebook is testing a major change to is basic algorithm – the one that decides what shows up in a followers news feed – that will completely change music marketing on the social platform; unless, of course, one is willing to pay to be seen. Facebook is testing a change that would shift all […]
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What To Expect When You’re Booking A Tour
[ad_1] Here we look at some tips and advice for bands or artists who reach the stage in their career where they’re ready to hit the road for their first major tour, outlining how they should plan for maximum success, and what they should be prepared for. Guest post by Rich Nardo of the TuneCore […]
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Independent Music Labels Capture Growing 38.4% Market Share Thanks To Streaming
[ad_1] [UPDATED] A new study commissioned by the Worldwide Independent Network (WIN) looks at the global market share of independent music labels based on copyright, rather than distribution, and reveals a very healthy indie sector on the rise. ________________________ A new WINTEL 2017 report shows indie labels capturing 38.4% of the global recorded music market. […]
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Albums And Why They Still Matter
[ad_1] With the rise of playlist culture, and the nature of music consumption changing so rapidly, many are questioning whether the conventional album is worthy investment of a band or artist’s resources. In this piece we look at why albums still matter. Guest post by Patrick McGuire of the ReverbNation Blog In today’s landscape of […]
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How come your prices are so much better than that other company?
Get 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???!!!
I 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
Fender 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
PANDORA 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
The 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
We 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
Entire 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
According 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…
Instagram 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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