Business, Services And Guides For Music Labels
How strong is the ‘vinyl comeback’? That really depends on your perspective. Last year, vinyl revenues hit an astounding $422.3 million in the US alone, according to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). That’s a vinyl comeback that was unthinkable ten years ago, especially after nearly 15 years of near-constant decline. Accordingly, this is […]
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The following post comes from Alex Heiche, CEO and founder of Sound Royalties, a company working to transform the entire way that songwriters fund their creativity. Sound Royalties has just partnered with DMN as part of our new, educational series on songwriter financing. Just like performing artists can chart their path without a label, songwriters […]
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Crowdfunding an ambitious project has led to some major successes like the Pebble Time Smartwatch, the weirdly popular Exploding Kittens, and Ouya, which eventually crashed in the gaming market. Going public on a large-scale crowdfunding campaign can usually guarantee success, especially when it’s picked up by multiple news outlets. Very rarely does it lead to […]
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Who leaked it? Reddit is now refusing to share information on a mysterious ‘Suicide Squad’ pirate. Reddit has now forcefully refused to comply with an Atlantic Records subpoena, one focused around a new Twenty-One Pilots track. That song, titled ‘Heathens,’ is part of the Suicide Squad soundtrack and was posted in a heavily-trafficked Reddit […]
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They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but how about a song? Bruce Springsteen’s Born to Run averages around 281 words, and The Beatles’ Let It Be has around 139. Now, a personal study done by Degenerate State, a blog by an ex-physicist, dug deep into the lyrics of normal heavy metal songs […]
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After 2 years of litigation, Global Eagle Entertainment and UMG Recordings have finally reached a settlement. According to an 8-K filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, both parties agreed to the settlement on August 9th, which will have Global Eagle compensate UMG first with “a cash payment of $15,000,000 plus the issuance […]
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Was Adele lying about her Super Bowl invitation? The National Football Association and Pepsi have jointly denied asking Adele to play their upcoming Super Bowl Halftime Show. The denial follows a claim by Adele that she was directly approached by the NFL, Pepsi, or both to play the show, in front of thousands of fans. […]
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The NFL routinely gets superstar musicians to play the Super Bowl Halftime Show for free. That didn’t work with Adele. Adele has now flat-out rejected an offer to play the upcoming NFL Super Bowl Halftime for free, a development that could force the league to revisit its long-held compensation policy towards performing artists. The rejection, told […]
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The first person I saw was Justin Timberlake. At a film premier thrown thrown by KCRW! But even the so-called stars who’ve made it are hustling. And you think celebrities are a pampered class that can’t be forgotten in a broadband nanosecond. But JT, at a movie about some self-deluded, off-key abomination of an opera singer, […]
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Think streaming doesn’t pay? Then you’re not gaming the system right. Late last month, we post the royalty statement from an indie rap label earning several dollars per stream (yes, per individual stream) on Microsoft Groove. More specifically, this label was pulling in an average of $4.65 per individual stream, which started adding up very quickly. In […]
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