Category archives: Featured Story

Social Media can be a great tool for promotion (no, this article wasn’t written in 2011, please bear with me).  These days, many major artists don’t even need to pay to advertise their new song or album; a post on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram will guarantee a few million YouTube views or Spotify streams.  And […]

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Beginning of the end for Neil Young’s Pono? Pono’s companion music site, at ponomusic.com, abruptly went down over the weekend with apparently zero warning to users.  According to details now posted on the site, a broad range of higher-end downloads will be unavailable for several weeks, with no firm return date. In a notice posted […]

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Don’t have money for studio time? Here’s an idea. Post a Craigslist that discusses your brilliance and why it’s a great idea to “invest” in you by giving you free studio time. That’s just what one Nashville band did. In there words: “We have an exceptional band and all of us are extremely talented. We are probably some […]

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This is the most liked picture ever on Instagram.  It’s also the most expensive. Selena Gomez is now pulling down more than half-a-million dollars for one social media post, according to figures calculated by measurement company D’Marie Analytics.  In an interview with AdWeek, D’Marie noted that Gomez can fetch a cool $550,000 per post, provided that it […]

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This is the most liked picture ever on Instagram.  It’s also the most expensive. Selena Gomez is now pulling down more than half-a-million dollars for one social media post, according to figures calculated by measurement company D’Marie Analytics.  In an interview with AdWeek, D’Marie noted that Gomez can fetch a cool $550,000 per post, provided that it […]

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Our long-running series, updated for the summer!  Got any solutions?  Streaming Problems. 1. The leading streaming music companies — YouTube/Google, Spotify, SoundCloud, Apple and others — have been routinely accused of treating artists poorly through duplicitous contract structures and low payments.  Most artists have no idea what they should be receiving. 2.  That has created a […]

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It’s one of the biggest mysteries of the music industry: how does Bob Lefsetz earn a living? If you’ve been in the music industry for a while, you’ve probably come across the Lefsetz Letter.  The razor-sharp email missive, penned by longtime industry critic Bob Lefsetz, tackles everything from superstars to technology to broader societal and […]

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A$AP Rocky is drawing heat for criticizing Black Lives Matter. Black Lives Matter has now become a groupthink ‘bandwagon,’ according to A$AP Rocky.  The rapper, undeterred by heavy criticism for failing to fully support the movement, is also now defending the controversial ‘All Lives Matter’ counter-movement.  “I hate when the bandwagon stuff start,”A$AP Rocky said during an […]

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