While overall physical sales of music have seen a massive decline in recent years as more listeners transition to streaming, vinyl has been making a remarkable comeback, with its sales almost doubling in the past several years. Here we look at some of the reasons behind this unprecedented resurgence in…
Category archives: Music Business
20 New Artists Poised To Be The Summer’s Hottest Live Acts
Ticketfly dug deep into its data across a wide range of genres to pick what it believes will be the hottest new live artists this year. Tor Miller, for example, offers indie-pop jams and a strong live show and his latest single Nylon comes with a “stadium-sized hook that can…
UPDATE: 85 Million Streams (50M On Spotify) Push Kayne West’s "Life Of Pablo" To #1
Kayne West’s Life of Pablo took the top spot of the BuzzAngle album chart last week with over 82,000 album project units. It accumulated 85M streams, meaning 70% of consumption came from streaming, a first for the format. The top 10 albums together totaled 240M streams, with Pablo accounting for…
MON. BRIEFING: YouTube Label Talks Heat Up • Apple Scores Drake Exclusive • EU Launches Collective Licensing • More
Monday 4.11.2016 Music Business News From Around The Web Can you imagine a YouTube without music? It won’t happen, but we’re in for months of posturing as labels strike (much needed) new deals. Updated continuously under our More News tab.
This Week In Music Commentary
Eager to share a piece of their minds, commentators this week weighed in on music streaming’s inevitable unbundling, whether YouTube’s dominion is coming to an end, and why streaming’s success won’t stop downloading. The Inevitable Unbundling Of Streaming Music Platforms Is YouTube’s Domination Of Music Nearing Its End? Streaming Won’t…
TOP POSTS: Last Week’s Most Read Posts On Hypebot
In some of Hypebot’s most popular articles from the past week, we speculated as to what Spotify’s new debt load means, looked at the most important tools for online music marketing, heard from several experts on how to communicate with fans, and much more. What Spotify’s Debt Means For Artists…
Getting It Done: The Week In D.I.Y And Indie Music
How to visually promote your music, get a record placement, and achieve success using inbound permission based marketing to fans, are just a few of the useful tips we have for the independently minded DIY artists out there this week. 9 New Rules For Success In The Modern Music Industry…
Music Think Tank Weekly Recap: Portable Studio • Promotional Stunts With CDs • Give Your Music Away Or Charge? • More
This week on MusicThinkTank, we covered building portable studios, promo stunts you can pull with leftover CDs, when you should give away your music vs. sell it, and more. Jay Von K | 7 Things You Need To Build A Portable Studio Bjorgvin Benediktsson | 7 Promotional Stunts You Can…
REWIND: The New Music Industry’s Week In Review
The Beatles crush it in their first hundred days on Spotify, Beatport explores their post-SFX independence, and Apple unveils new censorship technology, plus much more as we pay a final visit to the past week’s music industry news. The Beatles Rock Their First 100 Days On Spotfy What’s Happening At…
SFX Bankruptcy Court Allocates $15 Million In Payments To Artists
The judge overseeing the SFX bankruptcy gave top tier EDM artists and their agents reason to celebrate this week with the allocation of $15 million to be paid to artists performing at the beleaguered promoter’s festivals this summer. By Dave Brooks of touring industry trade Amplify The judge overseeing the…