Proper placement in a show has long played a major role in boosting a song’s profile, as recently evidenced by the Apple-owned music identification app Shazam, which busted through its previous record after the song "Jenny of Oldstones" was played over the credits of Game Of Thrones’ most recent episode….
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Rolling Stone To Challenge Billboard With Music Charts
Rolling Stone Magazine is launching multiple music charts in a direct challenge to Billboard. Data for the charts will come from BuzzAngle Music. Rollling Stone owners PMC made a strategic investment in the music data firm last year. Rolling Stone has increased its music industry coverage in recent months, including…
The Event Marketing Lifecycle: When Can You Sell The Most Tickets?
When and where you market your event is essential to selling tickets, and thanks to a plethora of data, we can now map out an event’s entire marketing lifecycle in order to pinpoint when the most opportune times to sell the maximum number of tickets will occur. __________________________ Guest post…
Paste Magazine’s Josh Jackson On His Noisetrade Acquisition
Paste Magazine Editor In Chief Josh Jackson joins Michael Brandvold and Jay Gilbert on the Music Business Weekly podcast, who discusses Paste’s recent acquisition of Noisetrade. What are Paste’s plans? Will they integrate Noisetrade into Paste and Day…
Building Your Dream Team: The Music Publisher
In this edition of Building Your Dream Team, AWAL breaks down the who, what, when, where, and why of the music industry’s matchmaking money hunter, the publisher. Here we look at the important role they play in gathering artist revenue, and how why they’ve taken center stage in the legally…
Garth Brooks Just Pre-Sold 1 Million $130 Vinyl Box Sets
Garth Brooks has pre-sold a record one million vinyl albums of his $130 box set “Legacy Collection.” In March, Brooks sold over 420,000 in just 18 hours. There was initially a 24 hour window to sell the allotted number of boxed sets, but they were gone in just over 12…
Highlights From ASCAP Expo 2019
ASCAP began its 2019 "I Create Music" Expo with the announcement that total revenues for 2018 topped $1.227 billion, an increase of 7% over the previous year. $1.109 billion in royalties were paid to member songwriters, composers and publishers, up 10% year-over-year. Highlights Atlanta power players including producer Don Cannon…
Workshop: How To Promote You Music On Social Media
While you’re likely using the social media majors like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter to promote your music, you may be frustrated with how little it’s done to actually boost your music’s performance. In this free workshop, Bobby Owsinski offers some pointers for musicians and engineers on how they can get…
Tinder Adds ‘Festival Mode’ To Enable Music Fest Hookups
Hookup app Tinder has added “Festival Mode” which effectively connects users at music festivals who are looking to ‘connect.’ The new feature allows users to add badges to their profile to show which music festivals that are attending over the summer. The app then prompts users to make a selection…
EU Begins Probe Of Spotify’s Apple Anti-Trust Complaint [Report]
The European Commission has begun an official probe of Spotify’s anti-trust complaint against Apple, according to a new report. The complaint centers on the 30% that Apple charges for in app purchase and polices that Spotify CEO Daniel Ek says,"deliberately disadvantage other app developers." "In recent years, Apple has introduced…