SoundCloud has hired former Sony Music exec Lisa Ellis to head Global Head of Music & Artist Relations. She will work alongside SoundCloud’s artist and label services team based in New York. Ellis joins SoundCloud from Provenance Ventures, a holding company for Provenance Media, where she will continue to serve…
Category archives: Indie Labels
A2IM Sets Indie Week 2019 Dates, Opens Libera Nominations
Independent music trade group A2IM announced that their 2019 Indie Week will take place on June 17-20 at The New York Law School. Nominations for the indie music Libera Awards are also open. A2IM has pledged to make this year’s four day gathering of the indie music tribe a more…
How Create Music Group Located $60M In Unclaimed Revenue For Artists, Labels In Three Years
Here Dana Feldman looks at how Los Angeles-based company Create Music Group has been able able to impact the online streaming economy in artists’ favor by tracking down $60 million dollars in unclaimed streaming revenue. _______________________ By Dana Feldman. This article originally appeared on Forbes.com In just three years, Los…
Move Over Majors, Indies Grab 39.9% Label Market Share
A new Worldwide Independent Market report prepared by MIDiA for indie music trade group WIN shows impressive growth in the global independent music sector. Indie revenue grew 11.3% in 2017 to reach $6.9 billion vs. 9.7% for the major labels. Overall, the independents’ share of global revenue grew from 39.6%…
Business Of Indie: Indie Revenue Grows • A2IM Sets Indie Week • Insomniac Adds Label Services • More
In this edition of The Business Of Indie, a new MIDiA and WIN report shows strong growth in the indie sector, A2iM sets dates for Indie Week, and Insomniac expands its label services division and much more. Like Hypebot’s More News section, The Business Of Indie is nestled under its…
Behind Mark Erelli’s All-Star Americana Collaboration [INTERVIEW]
In this interview, Chris Robley sat down to chat with somewhat under-the-radar independent folksinger Mark Erelli about his recent all-star collaboration, songwriting, music revenue and laundry. __________________________ By Chris Robley of CD Baby from the DIY Musician blog How a “largely unknown independent folksinger” partnered with Sheryl Crow, Rosanne Cash,…
Edgeout Label Launches With Artist Development Focus
Music industry vet Tony Guanci, along with a team of experienced A&R, touring, live events professionals have launched artist development focused Edgeout Records distributed by Universal Music Group. Edgeout is focused on discovering, vetting and signing young radio-friendly artists, and assist them in developing a fanbase through recorded music as…
Spotify’s 2018 Top Artists, Songs, Albums and Playlists
Spotify has revealed its 2018 lists of most streamed artists, tracks, playlists, podcasts and more of 2018. Sure, there’s plenty of Drake and Ariana Grande. But there are also some newer artists represented, along with a few surprises. Spotify’s Global Top Lists 2018: Most-Streamed Artists Drake is the world’s most-streamed…
What To Do The Week Before An Album Release
This episode of the Music Biz Weekly podcast is goes full Brandvold, with co-host Michael B. flying solo. He offers a look inside his prep for his client Jason Becker’s album release on December 7th. He offers is a short checklist of things to do so you are ready for…
Streaming Services Hold Key To Music’s Diversity [Op-Ed]
Johan Svanberg of indie distributor Record Union looks at the need for music streaming services to become more diverse and egalitarian; not only where gender and ethnicity are concerned, but also in terms of creation and ownership. The answer, he believes, is to make streaming platforms a more hospitable and…