Business, Services And Guides For Music Labels
Last week, 50 Cent ripped apart Tupac Shakur biopic All Eyez on Me. Now, he’s torching Jay-Z’s just-released 4:44. 50 Cent verbally dismantled Jay-Z latest album, 4:44, just moments after the album went platinum. Blasting the release as out-of-step and snobby, the rapper also took direct shots at Jay-Z’s assumed kingship of the rap world. The […]
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Well the state of America is pretty f’d right now. I’m not talking about what’s going down in Washington, I’m talking about how you can legally purchase weed in one state and be arrested and charged with a felony from that same weed in another. It’s now well understood that the criminalization of marijuana and the […]
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What happens when The Fader magazine posts a tracklist on Twitter? They get suspended. What happens when neonazis post offensive hate content on the same platform? Absolutely nothing at all. Yesterday morning, Twitter suspended a handful of popular music and culture accounts, including The Fader magazine. Users rallied behind the site with the hashtag #FREEFADER. […]
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Before we dig into everything there’s to know about Spotify playlists at this moment in time, you should remember that just because someone has a ton of streams does not mean they have a ton of fans. Streams are not equivalent to downloads or sales. Apples and oranges. When someone bought a song or an […]
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On Sunday, June 4th Andrew Leib (of Red Light Management) and I are hosting a day-long workshop called What Does a Manager Do and How To Get One. I will be interviewing 6 top-level managers, one on one, to discuss what they do on a daily basis, what they look for in potential clients and […]
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Last week I wrote about how Pandora has stopped paying artists over 50% of their money. Sources reported to me that Pandora’s accounting is so messed up that DIY distributors are literally sending checks BACK to Pandora because they were sent checks for songs they had nothing to do with. Artists have reported to me […]
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I heard the Fyre Festival is getting sued for $100 million. Bring on the HATE! Wow! After four grueling days of all-out tropical survival, I finally found out where the other Fyre Festival ‘adventurers’ went. Home! Looks like anyone can wire $14,000 for a pampered vacation, but not everyone can survive the rigors of a […]
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At Canadian Music Week this past Friday I attended the Questions with Mike Huppe (SoundExchange President and CEO) conversation. After a 20 minute humble brag about how SoundExchange has seen double digit growth every year for the past decade and that SoundExchange paid out $890 million last year to artists and labels, I raised my […]
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At Canadian Music Week this past Friday I attended the Questions with Mike Huppe (SoundExchange President and CEO) conversation. After a 20 minute humble brag about how SoundExchange has seen double digit growth every year for the past decade and that SoundExchange paid out $890 million last year to artists and labels, I raised my […]
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This past Friday I moderated the How To Make It in the New Music Business panel at the ASCAP Expo. One of the panelists was the co-founder of LaFamos PR and Branding, Hunter Scott. He is one of the few publicists out there who won’t take your money if he doesn’t think he can help […]
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