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Category archives: Music industry
Does the Album Even Matter Anymore? – Guns n’ Roses Is Unsure
Guns n’ Roses has recorded new material. Slash says they just can’t figure out the best way to release it. Slash recently spoke about the future of Guns n’ Roses music releases in an interview. The Guitar.com interview about his new G…
Watch Lead A&R Benny Scarrs Talk Navigating the Music Industry (Dave, Tinchy Stryder)
Benny Scarrs is a Point Blank Music School alumni who, since graduating from the Music Production & Sound Engineering course, has achieved some incredible feats. He’s been working in the music industry for a number of years now – having been involved with events booking talents such as Professor Green, Mr Hudson, Labyrinth and many more. Following these accolades, the […]
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The Estate of Michael Jackson and BMI Extend Catalog Representation
The Michael Jackson Estate has inked a renewal agreement with BMI to continue to represent the performing rights in Michael Jackson’s songwriting catalog. The new deal extends BMI’s uninterrupted 41-year relationship with the King of Pop. T…
CMT Pledges To Give 50% of All Video Plays to Female Artists
CMT says it will evenly split music video airtime between male and female artists. The former split favored male artists 40/60%. CMT says it is stepping up to help ensure gender parity in the country music genre. A study released last year showcased wh…
Point Blank Signs Industry Veteran Kwame Kwaten as Directer of PB Label
Kicking off the new decade in style, we’re excited to announce that we have officially signed industry veteran Kwame Kwaten as the Director and lead A&R of our homegrown Point Blank record label, Point Blank Recordings. Having had a #1 in the dance chart with his band D Influence, signed to Atlantic Records, been shortlisted for […]
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Top of the flops: is streaming rendering the charts obsolete?
Record companies might disagree, but exclusives, eligibility algorithms, bundling and ‘streaming farms’ are threatening to ruin the Top 40.
The Guardian
Music’s global evolution: K-Pop, China, and Eastern Europe
“Imagine if we have 97 million users every month and just 2.5 million paying subscribers [now], how interesting the next 10 years will be!”.
MusicAlly
Has Amazon Already Figured Out the Future of the Music Streaming Business?
In order to grow, streaming services may need to offer customers more, better, and cheaper subscription options — something Amazon is already doing.
Rolling Stones
A music artist says Apple Music pays her 4 times what Spotify does per stream
Spotify and Apple Music are the two dominant players in the music-streaming market and they might seem the same to many consumers, with similar features and pricing. But because of the system by which artists are paid, they can vary wildly in the royal…