Even today, conversations among music executives often hark back to 1999, when the popularity of CDs brought annual global recorded music revenue to its all-time high of $14.6 billion. Yet for India, one of the industry’s most exciting markets today, s…
Category archives: Music industry
Microsoft will soon shutter its music store and streaming service, move users to Spotify
You can’t fault Microsoft for trying, but Groove Music, its Spotify competitor, never took off.
Tech Crunch
Piratage : qu’est-ce que le “stream ripping”, qui effraie tant l’industrie musicale ?
Malgré les progrès des offres légales, notamment du streaming audio et vidéo, 40% des internautes dans le monde écoutent de la musique en ligne de manière illégale. La pratique en vogue du “stream ripping” inquiète particulièrement l’industrie de la mu…
22 Women Share Their Stories of Sexual Assault In the Music Industry (#MeToo)
Turns out Harvey Weinstein isn’t just a Hollywood problem. Now, women (and some men) are sharing their stories of rampant sexual abuse in the music industry. ‘Sexual harassment in the music industry is as bad as Hollywood, if not wo…
BTS Has ‘Zero Chance’ of Winning a Grammy In 2018, Insiders Say
Despite bubbling Grammy buzz, BTS are extremely unlikely to win in 2018. And there’s a decent chance the group will be excluded forever. BTS’ stateside success has been astonishing. Not since PSY has Kpop made so many inroads. But don…
The 14 Most Destructive Myths About the Music Industry
#1. Spotify saved the music industry. First it was Steve Jobs who saved the music industry. Then it was Spotify. Neither is true. Define ‘saved’. Did Spotify ‘save artists’? How about publishers? Spotify’s responsible for massively eroding piracy. That counts for something. The labels are roaring back — and getting seriously compensated for their catalogs. […]
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Streaming has pushed Latin music into the mainstream
Now six of YouTube’s top ten music videos are predominantly in Spanish. In August the Billboard Hot 100, which tracks streams, sales and radio plays, sported seven Latin hits. Just five graced the chart in all of 2016.
How To Make It In The Music Business
Illmind is a music producer. He isn’t famous. He doesn’t DJ at festivals in front of huge crowds. He’s not best friends with Drake. But the producers who do DJ for huge crowds, who are best friends with Drake — they know Illmind. They use his sounds. They text him when they’re working on a song that needs a little something.
Rolling Stone to be sold by Wenner Media
Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner plans to sell his company’s controlling stake in the legendary magazine that chronicled the music and politics of the counterculture movement and changed music journalism forever.
CBC News
The 50 best-selling music artists of all time
England’s greatest rock band holds the top spot on the all-time ranking of best-selling artists by album sales, and it looks untouchable on a bizarre list filled with a number of surprising appearances.
Independent