Category archives: Indie Labels

Lyor Cohen @ SXSW On YouTube, Music Industry Renaissance [WATCH]

Speaking at SXSW, YouTube Head Of Music Lyor Cohen was his usual bullish self predicting the future of the music industry. "The industry is going to return and grow by ads and subscriptions. People are willing to pay, and we’ll convert them to paid subscriptions," said Cohen.

The Album Is DEAD, But Not Everyone Believes It

While creating an album has for many bands and artists been a cornerstone of artistic accomplishment over the years, our shift to a predominantly playlist based culture means that we’re shifting away from the album format and living in a world of singles – just not everyone’s accepted it yet….

MusicRow Names ‘Rising Women On The Row’ Nominees 2018

Nashville music industry trade MusicRow has announced the nominees for its seventh annual “Rising Women On The Row” event, to be held at the city’s young Omni Nashville Hotel March 27. The six honorees for 2018 are Faithe Dillman, founder and CEO of Marbaloo Marketing; Leslie DiPiero, GM of Tree…

Spotify Adds Crowdsourced Artist, Track, Album Data Tool

Spotify has launched Line-In, a tool for gathering information about artists, tracks and albums from its 150 million users. The feature is currently available to desktop users only. ________________________________ A new Spotify "Line-In" feature allows users to suggest edits to the information (metadata) that the streamer has about artists, albums…

Frontiers’ Nick Tieder On Indie Labels, Marketing Music

Here Nick Tieder, the General Manager of long running independent record label Frontiers Music Srl., talks about what the label looks for in the artists they sign, what comprises a successful marketing campaign, and what artists need to do to be successful. ____________________________ Guest post by Julia Rogers of MusicConsultant…

REWIND: The New Music Industry’s Week In Review

In this revisitation of the past week’s biggest music industry news, the promoter of the now infamous Fyre Fest faces major jail time, Bon Iver’s manager eyes a congressional seat, states flip the bird to the FCC and its repeal of net neutrality, and much more. Warner Music, Facebook Finalize…

Kobalt Invests $150M In AWAL To Help ‘Thousands Of Emerging Artists’

[UPDATED] Kobalt announced today that it is investing $150 million in its AWAL independent artist and label services division to better serve its growing roster. Kobalt is also combining all of its recording business under the AWAL brand. ____________________________________ Artist and label services firm AWAL is hiring 100 new staff…

Indies Demand Spotify Stock Profit Share, Sony Responds

While the major labels have promised to pay their artists a share of any proceeds from the sale of their stock in Spotify, the independent music community is demanding that a corresponding share be passed on the many labels the major label owned companies distribute. All three major label groups…

Apple Deleting iTunes LP Format: Beginning Of The End?

Apple is deleting the iTunes LP format. The news was shared with labels and distributors two weeks ago; and now an email to iTunes’ music partners has surfaced that states clearly, "Apple will no longer accept new submissions of iTunes LPS after March 2018." ______________________________ Apple is killing the iTunes…