The big musical tent that is Americana had its best sales week ever, even as rock music failed to find even a single slot on Billboard’s mainstream Hot 100 radio chart. The exception: rock with a heavy dose of EDM. ______________________________________ By Glenn Peoples of Pandora Rock isn’t dead. I’ll…
Category archives: Indie Labels
Indie Label Association Issues "Serious" Alert For Counterfeit CDs For Sale Via Amazon
A2IM, the U.S. indie music trade group, has issued a rare and unusually strong warning to be on the lookout for look alike counterfeit CDs for sale on Amazon. ________________________________________ The Association of Independent Music has issued a warning regarding a "serious counterfeit operation selling large numbers of CDs" using…
Indie Label Association Issues "Serious" Alert For Counterfeit CDs For Sale Via Amazon
A2IM, the U.S. indie music trade group, has issued a rare and unusually strong warning to be on the lookout for look alike counterfeit CDs for sale on Amazon. ________________________________________ The Association of Independent Music has issued a warning regarding a "serious counterfeit operation selling large numbers of CDs" using…
Garth Brooks Grants First-Ever Streaming Rights To… Amazon Music Unlimited
Amazon launched its paid on demand streaming service Amazon Music Unlimited just last week; and today signaled that it too would play the exclusive music game with the acquisition of first-ever streaming rights to country superstar Garth Brooks. _________________________________________ Amazon today announced that the music of Garth Brooks, the best-selling…
Are Streaming Music Services Really Just Labels-In-Waiting?
In the wake of the release of so many streaming exclusives from high profile artists like Frank Ocean and Beyoncé, it looks to some as though streaming services are poised to further subvert the old media status quo by positioning themselves in an increasingly label-like role. ________________________________ Guest post by…
3 Must-Know Facts About Nielsen’s Billboard Charts
Billboard and Nielsen surveys inform a great deal of what we know about the music business when it comes to numbers, but how these companies work can be something of a mystery to artists, a mystery which we unpack some of here. _________________________ Guest Post from Topspin The Billboard charts…
RIAA Names Top Music Pirates, Notorious Markets 2016
Each year the RIAA submits a list of "notorious markets" to the U.S. Government, and this year’s list includes torrent trackers, download sites and stream rippers. In addition, the RIAA called out CloudFlare for making it harder to track illegal activity. The full RIAA list of Top Music Pirates &…
TuneCore Launches In France, Adds Local Artist Services Partnerships
TuneCore has launched its digital music distribution and publishing administration service in France. The announcement was made at today’s MaMA Event in Paris. Tunecore.fr is the third European market in the comoany’s international expansion, joining TuneCore Germany and UK. Tunecore.fr will be available in French and feature local content that…
Cooking Vinyl’s Martin Goldschmidt On 30 Years of Indie Music [INTERVIEW]
In this edition of In The Hot Seat with Larry Leblanc, he sat down with Martin Goldschmidt, the chairman of Cooking Vinyl Group, to discuss the inception of the company, the process around signing and keeping artists, and the evolution of the company. _______________________________ Guest Post by Larry LeBlanc on…
Apple Music: Inside The Music Industry’s First Artist-Backed Startup
This piece takes an in-depth look at the creation and history behind The Beatles’ Apple Music, a company which was in many ways the industry’s first artist backed startup. _______________________________ Guest post by Barry Miles, excerpted from The Zapple Diaries: The Rise and Fall of the Last Beatles Label The…