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….
Category archives: Major Labels
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…
Clickamix Launches Pre-cleared Music Platform For Sports
[UPDATED] Clickamix believes that unlicensed use of music in sports is a $670 million untapped revenue stream. As a solution, the startup has launch the first pre-cleared music licensing platform for sports that also allows music mixes in competitions. The average sports mix contains 4-8 pieces tracks and the music…
Sony In Talks To Buy EMI Music Publishing For $4B
EMI Music Publishing is for sale for $4 billion, and Sony is reportedly first in line. Access Industries, the owner of Warner Music Group, is among those also expressing interest in the massive song catalog. ___________________________________ EMI Music publishing is actively seeking a buyer for its 2.2 million song catalog….
Warner Music, Facebook Finalize Licensing Partnership
Warner Music Group (WMG) and Facebook have announced licensing agreements covering the company’s recorded music and music publishing catalogs for use in videos and messages. _________________________________ Thanks to a new deal with WMG, announced in a Facebook post, users of the social network can create, upload and share videos music…
Axl Rose Calls Apple’s Tim Cook ‘Donald Trump Of Music’
Axl Rose has long been an outspoken critic of Donald Trump; so it’s worth noting when the Guns ‘N Roses frontman likens Apple CEO Tim Cook’s relationship with the music industry to the controversial president. Axl Rose took to Twitter yesterday to call Apple’s Tim Cook the "Donald Trump of…
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…
Suge Knight Attorneys Charged With Witness Tampering
Two former attorneys for rap mogul Marion “Suge” Knight were indicted on charges of conspiring to bribe potential witnesses in Knight’s murder case, according to a grand jury indictment unsealed Monday. The federal grand jury indictment accuses the attorneys, Matthew Fletcher and Thaddeus Culpepper, of bribing people to provide favorable…
Straight Outta Wakanda: How Black Panther’s Score Solved Marvel’s Music Problem
While Marvel movies have certainly been commercial successes, Marvel has thus far largely missed the mark when it comes to the meaningful integration of music into their films. Until, that is, the release of Black Panther, the score of which fixed Marvel’s music problem. _______________________________ Guest post by Charles Burchell…
UMG Says Artists Will Profit From Spotify Stock Sale, But What Does That Mean?
After months of silence, Universal Music Group has joined Sony and Warners in pledging to share proceeds from the upcoming public sale of Spotify stock with the artists signed to its labels. But the announcement came without details as to how much of the profit will be shared or how…