Category archives: Music industry

Music Ally To Launch In China

Music industry consultancy and news site Music Ally has teamed with Kanjian Music, the Chinese music services company, to launch Music Ally China. This new venture will bridge the gap between the rapidly-expanding and commercially-unique Chinese music business and the western and Japanese music industries. Music Ally China will publish…

When We Sleep Where Do Our Royalties Go? [VIDEO]

Despite numerous advancements in payment tech, it can still take ages for songwriters to see a penny of their earned revenue, and so AWAL, AMRA and Kobalt are teaming up to do something about it. _________________________ Guest post from AWAL You can Venmo your friend money before you finish this…

Inside Bandzoogle’s New Music Crowdfunding Platform with Dave Cool [Music Biz Weekly Podcast]

Dave Cool from Bandzoogle sits down with Michael Brandvold and Jay Gilbert on the Music Biz Weekly Podcast this week to discuss Bandzoogle’s new no fee crowdfunding feature. Dave also offers updates on many of the recent enhancements to the Bandzoogle platform. Built by musicians for musicians, Bandzoogle is an…

The Latest Best Practices For Instagram Hashtags

While hashtags remain a key part of Instagram, the rules of when and how to use them have shifted over the last couple years, and former best practices have fallen out of vogue. Here we look at what new data can tell us about the most effective and smart ways…

Spotify Says It Overpaid Songwriters And Wants Money Back

In it’s latest spat with music publishers, Spotify says they owe the streamer for overpayments. Last year’s US Copyright Royalty Board rate change included a retroactive cut in the minimum payment that the streamer makes on student and family plans along with a graduated 44% increase in payments to songwriters…

How To Stay Sane, Motivated When Music Is Your Side Gig

Maintaining a full-time job while also working as a part-time musician is a never ending struggle, and it can be a challenge to carve out the time and muster the energy to put the quality work into your music that you want to. Here we look at some tips for…

A2IM Libera Indie Music Awards 2019 – Full Winners List

Country-folk legend John Prine took top honors at the A2IM 2019 Libera Awards, winning the awards for Best American Roots/Folk Album and Best Country/Americana Album for The Tree of Forgiveness (Oh Boy Records). The awards, which took place at Ziegfeld Ballroom in NYC, as part of A2IM’s Indie Week, were…

Publishing Lawsuit Against Pandora From Wixen Music Raises Questions Regarding Lyric Licensing

Pandora is facing down a long-expected lawsuit from Wixen Music Publishing over the streaming platform’s alleged infringing of lyrics in songs represented by Wixen. This could be bad news for Pandora, what was made aware of the problem in early 2018 and has thus far failed to take corrective action….

Soundgarden, Tupac, Hole and more sue Universal Music over recordings destroyed in 2008 fire

It’s the first legal action taken since news surfaced last week of the extent of damage from the June 1, 2008, blaze that decimated a storage facility on the lot at Universal Studios Hollywood that housed a trove of recordings in UMG’s possession.
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