Business, Services And Guides For Music Labels
Which ticketing service would you use? Ticketmaster or Amazon? Amazon has sought to partner with multiple venue owners across the United States to sell event tickets. Four sources who spoke with Reuters confirmed that the company may soon compete directly with US ticketing platform leader, Ticketmaster. The move comes after talks to work together have […]
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On Friday, SoundCloud’s existing investors will determine if the company lives or dies. So you might want to back up your catalog. The walls are caving in on SoundCloud. And its entire future is now hinging upon one vote. Earlier, Digital Music News reported that the beleaguered streaming service was entertaining rescue investment from two […]
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1. Licensing. If you want major artists from major labels, be prepared to pay multi-millions of dollars for it. And it may take years to finalize those deals (just ask Spotify). If you don’t have to give away a percentage of your company, I’d like to meet your attorney. This is how music startups die, […]
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The Spinfire mobile app seems like a surefire way to engage in a payola scheme at the club scene. Want to have popular DJs play your music at local clubs? Look no further than Spinfire, an easy way to engage in a pay-for-play scheme across the United States. The Spinfire app, available for Android and […]
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Instead of dusting off your old 78rpm vinyl records, just listen to them online. A group over at the Internet Archive started an interesting project today. Dubbed ‘The Great 78 RPM Project!’, the group has posted a vast digital collection of 78rpm vinyl records online. Currently, you can access and download over 30,000 vinyl records […]
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At weddings, people absolutely despise hearing the Village People. Ah, it’s that time of the year again. Love fills the air. Flowers bloom in fields. Birds chirp happily as they fly high in the cloudless skies. Children enjoy their time off from school. And most couples decide to join their lives together in holy matrimony. […]
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The Wall Street Journal’s Neil Shah allegedly made up facts about vinyl records. Despite growing consumer interest in vinyl, not everyone likes the format. Take Wall Street Journal’s Neil Shah, for example. He’s written two mostly negative pieces on the surge of vinyl. However, according to Analog Planet, the notably cynic writer may have fabricated […]
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Who says Spotify doesn’t pay? Warner Music Group is now one of the biggest beneficiaries of a streaming kaboom. It was a dump-off deal from a financially-strapped media conglomerate. In 2004, Time Warner dropped its failing music label for $2.4 billion. That was the start of an underwhelming decade for Warner Music Group that racked […]
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I’m sure you’ve read by now the piece that has been shared relentlessly discussing how 69-year-old Donald Fagen (of Steely Dan) was “forced” to go on tour because his album sales money has dried up. Fagen told the Wall Street Journal: “When the bottom fell out of the record business a bunch of years ago, […]
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An open letter to Richard Sanders, TIDAL’s 4th CEO in 2 years. Dear Richard, Why is TIDAL floundering while Spotify is soaring? Why is TIDAL a marginal, relatively unknown streaming service while Apple Music enjoys breakthrough gains? Streaming music is exploding. Why is TIDAL struggling? I hope you will consider these suggestions as you assume […]
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