Business, Services And Guides For Music Labels
Should ‘Laptop DJs’ stick to bar mitzvahs and weddings? This is all going down outside of Los Angeles, where the owner of a club called Cure and the Cause in Glendale felt that his club was turning into an amateur hour. Even worse, the flow of music was getting interrupted by DJs who didn’t even know […]
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Will this be the summer that finally killed indie record retail? Vinyl sales keep exploding, along with sales of turntables and peripherals. There’s even a brand-new, high-quality vinyl format on the way. So why are so many vinyl stores closing down? That’s now an urgent question, with four legendary record stores shutting down in the past month […]
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I’m 30,000 feet in the air en route to Bonnaroo getting my schedule together for the acts I want to see and who I’m going to interview. Which got me thinking. What questions do bands get asked the most? In the hundred-some interviews I’ve given (as an artist), a few questions have come up again […]
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The following primer comes from Robert Klembas of Rebeat Digital, a provider of digital distribution and royalty accounting services. Rebeat is now releasing one of the first Music Enterprise Software (MES) solutions to track everything for artists, and this is their first in a series of educational posts about royalty licensing. No matter if you […]
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Ok, Spotify you can have the album now… On May 8th, Radiohead released their latest album titled A Moon Shaped Pool, on pretty much every other streaming platform except for Spotify. It’s widely known that Radiohead’s lead Thom Yorke is against Spotify (and free streaming in general), and a big advocate for artists getting fair pay. He famously pulled […]
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Another music industry lawsuit. This time it’s Ed Sheeran that faces the brunt of a copyright infringement lawsuit… Ed Sheeran is being sued for a massive $20 million for copying an X-Factor winner’s song, according to a report by Billboard. The massive global hit ‘Photograph’ has reportedly been swiped from Matt Cardle, the 2010 X-Factor […]
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Sales of a-la-carte track downloads from platforms like the iTunes Store and Amazon are now experiencing serious declines, according to preliminary Q1 and partial Q2 data shared this morning with Digital Music News. Last year, year-over-year track downloads plunged nearly 13% according to Nielsen Music, but that figure is now slipping past 20% year-over-year, according […]
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Last month, sources to Digital Music News pointed to internal Apple discussions and proposal to eliminate music downloads from iTunes, in as quickly as 2-3 years. That was flatly denied by Apple’s media representatives, though sources with close knowledge of the company’s plans continue to share details that music downloads may be phased out in just […]
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After 14 years of dROOling, I’m finally losing my Roo-ginity! This year’s Bonnaroo features headliners Pearl Jam, Dead & Company (fronted by John Mayer), LCD Soundsystem, Death Cab for Cutie, Ween, Chris Stapleton, Macklemore, Leon Bridges, Ween, J. Cole, M83, Ellie Goulding and Tame Impala. But I’m also excited to see LA / Ann Arbor […]
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A new court decision now allows anyone to extend recording copyrights indefinitely. Last week, a federal judge ruled that CBS Radio didn’t have to pay additional royalties for songs released before 1972. The reason is that CBS Radio was that even though the songs in question were released before 1972, they were remastered after that […]
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