Merchandiser Bandwear is expanding its music crowdfunding service with an offer to help artists affected by the demise of PledgeMusic. The merchandiser will rebuild their campaigns and online stores at no cost, along an offer of discounted manufacturing and fulfillment. Other artists can also launch a crowdfunding campaign on Bandwear…
Category archives: Indie Labels
Sofar Sounds Raises Huge Amount Of Money, But Artists Don’t See Much Of It
Sofar Sounds, a service which specializes in setting up artists with shows, particular house concerts, has had a pretty successful financial track record, putting on over 600 shows a month and bringing in an impressive amount of revenue – unfortunately, not much of that money seems to be ending up…
BMG Production Music Rebrands: ‘Stock music doesn’t suck!’
BMG Production Music, which services film, broadcast, games and advertising has rebranded and launched a ‘Hidden Hit Makers’ initiative to showcase "the greatest tracks you’ve never heard of." The Hidden Hit Makers concept showcases both BMGPM’s creative process and its behind the scenes clients. "Stock Music Doesn’t Suck" Since its…
Getting It Done: The Week In D.I.Y. and Indie Music
Offering a plethora of useful tips and advice, we this week provide counsel for independent artists on how to market your latest release on a $0 budget, maintaining your mental during the stresses of touring, how to structure your marketing campaign based on the latest YouTube best practices, and much,…
Indie Stores Are Being ‘Strangled’ By Major Label Distribution: ‘Things are a complete mess.’
Independent music stores are demanding action from all three major labels over repeated missing and incorrect shipments handled by their primary fulfillment partner Direct Shot Distributing. "We need help right now on this issue or you will begin to see stores fold simply because their supply chain strangled them," says…
Billboard To Add Top Songwriters, Top Producers Charts
Under pressure from alternative data sources and soon to launch charts from Rolling Stone, Billboard is expanding its own chart offering. Top Songwriters and Top Producers charts will be based on weekly activity on the Billboard Hot 100 and other “Hot” genre song charts that blend data from streaming, airplay…
Marketing Your New Release On $0 Budget
While there are many strategies for doing things cheaply, marketing on an actual budget of zero dollars may seem untenable, but their are a number of creative ways to make a serious impact with your marketing that, while they can’t replace paid advertising, can go a long way towards supplementing…
BUSINESS OF INDIE: Akon Launches Label • AWAL + Proper • Indies Score At Country Radio • More
In this new edition of Business Of Indie, Akon and Motown Veteran Kedar Massenburg launch the Akonik Label Group, AWAL expands its deal for physical distribution with Proper, indie labels are giving majors a run for their money at country radio and more. Like Hypebot’s More News section, The Business…
Dublin Vinyl Adds Direct-To-Fan Service For Artists, Labels
Record pressing plant Dublin Vinyl has launched a direct-to-fan service for independent labels and artists. Dublin Vinyl now offers vinyl manufacturing right through to fulfillment, has begun accepting orders directly from artist or label’s e-commerce sites including Bandcamp, Shopify, Woocommerce and Big Cartel, and shipping them directly EU based fans….
Industry Bomb Thrower Merck Mercuriadis On Disrupting The Music Business [INTERVIEW]
In this edition of ‘In the Hot Seat’ with Larry LeBlanc, he speaks with music industry heavy-hitter and publishing pariah Merck Mercuriadis about how he’s shaking up the music business with his publicly traded intellectual propery acquisition vehicle Hipgnosis Songs Fund Limited. __________________________________ Guest post by Larry LeBlanc from Celebrity…