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This Week In Music Commentary
This week we heard commentary from inside the industry on why labels reissuing vinyl should go the extra mile to ensure maximum quality, how YouTube’s 1 billion plays club is changing global music culture, everything you could ever need to know about article 13, and more! Advice To Labels: When…
Getting It Done: The Week In D.I.Y. and Indie Music
This week, we provide a whole slew of invaluable advice to those foraging their own way through the dense jungle that is the music business, with tips on guerrilla marketing for events, how to improve press coverage of your music, the best way to dodge music industry burnout and much,…
Music Think Tank Weekly Recap: Air Travel • Acoustic Guitars • Eat, Sleep, Write • More
This week on MusicThinkTank, contributors weighed in on the FAA’s new ruling for musicians traveling by air, how to pick your first guitar, five fantastic songwriting apps, and more! Wallace Collins| FAA Ruling For Air Travel: You CAN Carry On Your Guitar! Simon Dupree | Acoustic Guitars 101: How To…
REWIND: The New Music Industry’s Week In Review
In this roundup of the past week’s music industry news, we look back in on Amazon rapid growth in the battle for supreme streaming domination, major news outlets’ protesting of Ariana Grande’s photo agreement, Spotify test run of it’s premium duo discount subscription, and more! Amazon Music To Be 2019’s…
TOP POSTS: This Week’s Most Read Posts On Hypebot
Some of this week’s most popular articles on Hypebot covered recent important updates to ‘Spotify for Artists.’ the latest in the PledgeMusic dumpster fire, what the approval of Article 13 means for YouTube’s safe harbor rules, and more. New Update To Spotify For Artists Portal PledgeMusic Update: Millions Owed, Buyer…
Kobalt Revenue Up 25%, AWAL Grew 50% In Last Fiscal Year
Kobalt has reported strong growth for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2018. Revenues at the global indie publisher and label services firm rose 25.3% year-over-year to $402.1 million. Gross collections were up 30% percent to $494 million. AWAL, the company’s recorded music and label services division, grew 50% during…
Could The King Biscuit Flower Hour Survive Today?
In this piece Fred Jacobs recalls the era of Album Oriented Rock (AOR) and, more specifically, the ‘King Biscuit Flower Hour,’ a show which presented original concert programming through until the early ’90s. So could the such programming survive today, living as we are in the age of reboots? ______________________________…
Symphonic Partners With Songtrust
Independent music distributor Symphonic has partnered with Songtrust to expand its publishing services. Songtrust represents more than 150,000 songwriters and more than 20,000 publishers. The new partnership will benefit Symphonic clients who choose their Publishing Administration service which charges 15% of the publisher’s share of royalties. “Symphonic is the premier…
Changes To YouTube Copyright Claims May Affect You
YouTube is now unveiling some important changes to its Content ID feature which could impact artist videos moving forward, requiring content owners to provide infringement timestamps, and limiting the number of manual copyright claims. _____________________ Guest post by Bobby Owsinski of Music 3.0 YouTube is rolling out a couple of…