You may disagree with his Trumpian politics, but someone’s holding a parade somewhere for Kid Rock, after the "$20 Concert Tour" rocker paid off all 350 layaway accounts at a Tennessee Walmart. Rock, who said he was following the lead of Tyler Perry, Paid off accounts to the tune of…
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How To Work With A Record Producer: Reto Peter (Green Day, Counting Crows) On Music Biz Weekly Podcast
Record Producer Reto Peter joins Michael Brandvold and Jay Gilbert on the Music Biz Weekly Podcast. He has been actively engineering and producing music for 20 years at prestigious studios in Boston, NYC, Switzerland and San Francisco. Reto starts off sharing some stories working with Green Day on the American…
Pitchfork Names Best Songs Of 2018
Pitchfork has released its 100 Best Songs of 2018 and “Love It If We Made It” by The 1975 with Robyn’s “Honey” at #2, followed by Rosalía’s “Malamente.” Pitchfork’s list of The 50 Best Albums of 2018 will be announced on Tuesday. Both lists are chosen by Pitchfork editors and…
Sony Music Takes On Spotify, Launches Streaming Service In Japan ‘Powered By Napster’
[UPDATED] Sony Music will use Rhapsody’s "Powered By Napster" platform to launch the first high resolution streaming music service in Japan. The move by Sony Music Entertainment Japan makes Sony the first major label to directly challenge Spotify, Apple Music and others with their own music streaming service. Music will…
SoundCloud Names 2018 Top Tracks, Artists To Watch, More
SoundCloud has crunched the numbers and released its top artists, tracks, trends and more of 2018. For the second year, Two Friends released the top DJ setl, and “synthwave” and “phonk” were the most tagged genres. Stream the 2018 SoundCloud Top Tracks Playback playlist and 2019 Artists to Watch.
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Spotify’s Most Streamed Artists, Tracks 2018 Are All Male and It Has Only Itself To Blame
Despite all the talk of equality for women in music, the top 5 most streamed most artists of 2018 on Spotify are all men. Spotify’s 5 Most Streamed Tracks were also all male. The streamer registered the same all male top artist inequality in 2015 and 2016. Spotify’s Top 5…
Hall of Heavy Metal History Names 2019 Inductees: Lita Ford, David Ellefson, Jon and Marsha Zazula, More
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SAG-AFTRA Ratifies Stronger Sound Recording Deal
T he members of performers union SAG-AFTRA have voted to approve the tentative deal struck with the major labels for sound recordings back in October. The new SAG-AFTRA Sound Recordings Code includes sound recordings on digital, CDs and vinyl. It also includes all music formats, including audiobooks, cast albums, and…
Grammy Nominees 2019 – The Full List
The nominations for the 61st GRAMMY Awards are in and Kendrick Lamar leads the 2019 pack with 8 nominations for his Black Panther soundtrack. Here are all of the nominees in each of the 84 categories. 1. Record Of The Year Award to the Artist and to the Producer(s), Recording…