Music industry consultancy and news site Music Ally has teamed with Kanjian Music, the Chinese music services company, to launch Music Ally China. This new venture will bridge the gap between the rapidly-expanding and commercially-unique Chinese music business and the western and Japanese music industries. Music Ally China will publish…
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Musicians Sue Universal Alleging $100M 2018 Fire Loss
A group of high-profile musicians and estates have filed a $100 million lawsuit against Universal Music Group (UMPG) over the 2008 fire that destroyed thousands of archived master recordings. The lawsuit, which was filed in Los Angeles Federal District Court Friday (June 21) by the rock bands Soundgarden and Hole,…
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When We Sleep Where Do Our Royalties Go? [VIDEO]
Despite numerous advancements in payment tech, it can still take ages for songwriters to see a penny of their earned revenue, and so AWAL, AMRA and Kobalt are teaming up to do something about it. _________________________ Guest post from AWAL You can Venmo your friend money before you finish this…
Spotify Reveals How The ‘Fans Also Like’ Feature Works: ‘the second-most important piece of data’
"Fans Also Like" appears on Spotify artist page filled with a list of related artists. Those same artists also surface on their peers’ FAL lists. Spotify has now shared how this ‘second-most important piece of data’ works and its importance in the streamer’s data driven ecosystem. "Artist similarity is probably…
Inside Bandzoogle’s New Music Crowdfunding Platform with Dave Cool [Music Biz Weekly Podcast]
Dave Cool from Bandzoogle sits down with Michael Brandvold and Jay Gilbert on the Music Biz Weekly Podcast this week to discuss Bandzoogle’s new no fee crowdfunding feature. Dave also offers updates on many of the recent enhancements to the Bandzoogle platform. Built by musicians for musicians, Bandzoogle is an…
The Latest Best Practices For Instagram Hashtags
While hashtags remain a key part of Instagram, the rules of when and how to use them have shifted over the last couple years, and former best practices have fallen out of vogue. Here we look at what new data can tell us about the most effective and smart ways…
Spotify Says It Overpaid Songwriters And Wants Money Back
In it’s latest spat with music publishers, Spotify says they owe the streamer for overpayments. Last year’s US Copyright Royalty Board rate change included a retroactive cut in the minimum payment that the streamer makes on student and family plans along with a graduated 44% increase in payments to songwriters…
How To Stay Sane, Motivated When Music Is Your Side Gig
Maintaining a full-time job while also working as a part-time musician is a never ending struggle, and it can be a challenge to carve out the time and muster the energy to put the quality work into your music that you want to. Here we look at some tips for…
A2IM Libera Indie Music Awards 2019 – Full Winners List
Country-folk legend John Prine took top honors at the A2IM 2019 Libera Awards, winning the awards for Best American Roots/Folk Album and Best Country/Americana Album for The Tree of Forgiveness (Oh Boy Records). The awards, which took place at Ziegfeld Ballroom in NYC, as part of A2IM’s Indie Week, were…