This week, Chris Rizik from SoulTracks.com join Music Biz Weekly podcast co-hosts Michael Brandvold and Jay Gilbert to discuss Chris’ essay, “Spotify could kill Jazz, Soul and Classical music. Really” and how streaming is changing the music industry and how artists and labels generate revenue. Related articles Spotify Threatens Hacked…
Category archives: Indie Labels
How We Crowdfunded 18K With No Experience, Fans [Part 5]
In this fifth and final piece of a five part series, Justina Grayman shares her experience running a successful crowdfunding campaign, and outlines what others considering embarking on a similar journey should keep in mind. In this final piece she details process of actually rolling out the completed project. ___________________________…
How Record Labels Screwed Up The Music Industry, And How Spotify, Apple Saved Them
ALTERNATIVE TAKE: Mike Masnick explores the sordid history of how the record labels’ behavior in the early days of the internet literally brought the music industry to its knees, and how these same labels have been saved by the tech industry led by Apple and Spotify. ______________________ By Mike Masnick…
Spotify Launches ‘Game Plan’ How To Video Series For Artists
With 170 million users, getting music on Spotify and communicating with fans there can change a career. But navigating Spotify as a promotional tool can be daunting. Now, they’ve released an informative video series. Spotify for Artists, the music streamer’s free artist portal, has launched a video series called The…
Iconic Tests Copyright Infringement Software For Indies
Iconic Artists has announced the beta testing of Streamtrack, its copyright infringement and reporting software. Launched as a response to the continued threat of piracy and exploitation faced by so many in the music industry, StreamTrack was designed to help songwriters, musicians and other rights’ holders keep track of their…
EDM Business Down Worldwide
The International Music Summit Business Report 2018 shows the global electronic music business took a 2% drop in 2017, fueled mainly by a dip in record sales, but added that the change does not necessarily mean EDM business is down. In fact, the opposite may be true. Global EDM business…
Irving Azoff Calls Out ‘Liar’ Cohen, YouTube Over Payments
YouTube Global Head Of Music Lyor Cohen is making the media rounds touting the launch of YouTube Music as the dawning of new day for music discovery and promising bigger payments to artists and labels. But Irving Azoff, super-manager and founder of the Global Rights, is not buying the hype….
Irving Azoff Calls Out ‘Liar’ Cohen, YouTube Over Payments
YouTube Global Head Of Music Lyor Cohen is making the media rounds touting the launch of YouTube Music as the dawning of new day for music discovery and promising bigger payments to artists and labels. But Irving Azoff, super-manager and founder of the Global Rights, is not buying the hype….
A2IM Board Nominees Announced, Voting Begins
Voting for the American Association of Independent Music’s Board of Directors election opened this week. The board is elected by A2IM’s label members with one vote per company. A2IM’s voting members will vote to fill three (3) seats from the list of candidates (below, alphabetically by first name). Voting closes…
100% Indie Artist Shares How He Got 2 Billion Streams [VIDEO]
Paul Cardell is a poster boy for the modern music industry. This truly independent artist – he owns all of his own publishing and masters – is a three time No. 1 Billboard New Age chart topper with more than 2 billion lifetime digital streams of his catalog of over…