Business, Services And Guides For Music Labels
To further their Apple Music TV plans, Apple may very well produce the sequel to R Kelly’s popular ‘Trapped in the Closet.’ Apple has bigger plans than just streaming music. The Cupertino-based company acquired the rights to stream Carpool Karaoke. The company is also working on a new reality show dubbed Planet of the Apps. […]
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To further their Apple Music TV plans, Apple may very well produce the sequel to R Kelly’s popular ‘Trapped in the Closet.’ Apple has bigger plans than just streaming music. The Cupertino-based company acquired the rights to stream Carpool Karaoke. The company is also working on a new reality show dubbed Planet of the Apps. […]
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To commemorate the 15th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, a British teen wanted to blow up an Elton John concert. 19-year-old Harood Syed admitted today to plotting a September 11 bomb attack last year. British officers caught the teen after he spoke to a British Security Service undercover officer on an online chat […]
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Spotify has one solution to helping artists get paid faster: use blockchain. Last year, Mediachain Labs introduced its ‘Attribution Engine.’ The engine would select the best openly-licensed images using machine learning. It would then automatically add the proper attribution to the images so creators would get “the credit they need and deserve.” Now, Spotify wants […]
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Want to see top performers at a summer concert? Just pay Live Nation $20. On National Concert Day this year, Live Nation will once again kick off its summer concert season. To sweeten the deal, they’re offering fans tickets to hot shows for just $20. Live Nation will make over one million $20 tickets available […]
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April has been a pretty busy month in the music industry. Who got hired, fired, promoted, and retired? First Access Entertainment named former Ultra Records A&R Director Oscar Scivier as its new Vice President of A&R. In his new role, he’ll work out of the company’s New York and Los Angeles offices. He’ll help develop […]
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How much should Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora, Tidal, Deezer, Microsoft Groove, Google Play Music and Napster be paying you? Here’s a handy calculator to help you figure it all out. In the old days, it was easy to figure out your payments from iTunes downloads, CDs, and vinyl. Or at least, what you should have […]
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At Canadian Music Week this past Friday I attended the Questions with Mike Huppe (SoundExchange President and CEO) conversation. After a 20 minute humble brag about how SoundExchange has seen double digit growth every year for the past decade and that SoundExchange paid out $890 million last year to artists and labels, I raised my […]
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At Canadian Music Week this past Friday I attended the Questions with Mike Huppe (SoundExchange President and CEO) conversation. After a 20 minute humble brag about how SoundExchange has seen double digit growth every year for the past decade and that SoundExchange paid out $890 million last year to artists and labels, I raised my […]
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You make a guitar design for a friend. That friends ends up going famous in Pantera. A company likes the design, so they “borrow” it. What do you do? Sue. An instrument designer says he was the one who helped design Pantera’s signature guitar. Now, he’s going to court to sue a guitar company for […]
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