If you missed the opportunity to share Easter Sunday with Kanye West at the Coachella music festival, there’s now some of the grass from the hillside for sale. Several attendees are selling grass from the event online, according to The Shade Room, with prices ranging from $7.90, plus shipping, to…
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Has Coachella Lost It’s Cool? Instagram Has The Answer
Has Coachella lost its cool? Burning Man is now the most Instagramed festival in the world, beating out Coachella for the top spot. An Instagram user at Burning Man will post an 24 times over the course of the event, compared to 21 times at Coachella. The Burning Man stat…
Woodstock 50 Concert Is Cancelled [OFFICIAL]
Woodstock 50 has been cancelled. On Monday, officials with Dentsu Aegis Network released said that the concert and celebration had been cancelled because they "don’t believe the production of the festival can be executed as an event worthy of the Woodstock Brand name." Headliners scheduled to appear included The Killers,…
Spotify Adds 40,000 New Tracks Every Day [That’s Not A Typo]
During an earnings call Monday, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek shared that the streamer now offers 60 million tracks. The catalog continues to grow by a whopping 40,000 tracks every day, according to Ek. Podcasts Additionally, more than 50,000 podcasts have been submitted to Spotify through Spotify for Podcasters, enabling listeners…
Creator Support: A New Way To Pay Artists For Streaming [Mark Mulligan]
How to fairly compensate creators as consumption becomes dominated by streaming is the subject of vigorous debate. But a new model dubbed ‘creator support’ is gaining traction because it will pay many artists more with minimal impact on the wider royalty pool, says MIDiA’s Mark Mulligan. ___________________________________ By Mark Mulligan…
How Not To Get Caught In The Set It And Forget It Trap
Too many artists forget to change bios, links, call to actions, photos after an album, tour and other milestones and events. On this week’s Music Biz Weekly podcast Michael Brandvold and Jay Gilbert discuss some tips we learned from speaking with YouTube, like setting up your video name, description, keywords…
SideOne Dummy Records Inks Global Deal With AWAL
Kobalt’s AWAL has inked an exclusive worldwide deal with the seminal independent SideOne Dummy Records. The worldwide deal will leverage both AWAL distribution and marketing. Based in LA, SideOne Dummy Records was founded in 1995 by Joe Sib & Bill Armstrong. The label has launched the careers of Gaslight Anthem,…
Tunecore Distribution Payments To Artists Up 21%, Stream And Downloads Rise 83%
TuneCore artists earned $83 million in the first quarter of 2019, a 21% increase over the same period last year. Total streams and downloads of music by TuneCore’s 250,000 worldwide artists hit 199.3 billion in the past year, a 83% increase over 2017. This latest tally brings Tunecore’s total distributed…
Label Negotiations Will Be "Long Drawn Out Process" says Spotify Exec
Spotify is in the midst of crucial renegotiations with all three major labels and other partners. We should expect those negotiations to be "a long drawn out process," Spotify Chief Financial Officer Barry McCarthy said on a Q1 earnings call Monday. "It’s just the nature of the beast," McCarthy added….