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Live Nation, MGM Resorts Sued In Wake Of Festival Shooting

Ten survivors of the deadly shooting spree at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas have hit the estate of alleged gunman Stephen Paddock, as well as MGM Resorts, Mandalay Bay and festival promoter Live Nation with a lawsuit alleging negligence. 

WED. BRIEF: Sonos One Reviewed • NME Adds Emerging Artists Program • Misogyny In The Music Biz • MORE

WEDNESDAY 10.18.17

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 Alexa never sounded so good, thanks to Sonos.

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How Not To Get Booked

While musical ability is an important part of being successful artist, there are some skills essential to the industry that aren't directly related to performance but are nonetheless essential, and a lack of which can be ruinous to the artist.

Big Tech Is Hurting Professional Creators and Why It Matters [Op-Ed]

In this op-ed, Chris Castle highlights a recent piece from musician and artist rights advocate Miranda Mullholland on how the pervasive algorithm based music culture is detrimental to artists and the creative process in general.

INGrooves Founder Rob McDaniels Named Beatport CEO

Rob McDaniels, best know as the founder of pioneering digital distributor INgrooves, has been named the CEO of Beatport. McDaniels will also maintain a presence at his more recent roles as a Venture Partner for Dubai-based investment company TechInvest and co-founder of Faction Entertainment - an artist management services platform.

8 Songs For The Reverb Hall Of Fame

When it comes to creating music, reverb is an incredibly powerful and evocative tool, with incredible flexibility. Here we celebrate eight genre-spanning works works that employed reverb to its maximum potential.

Universal Music Launches Music Tech Startup Initiative

Universal Music Group has launched a music tech accelerator engagement network  aimed at promoting the development of innovative music-based start-ups globally.

Best Ways To Invest In Your Music Career And In Yourself

When cultivating a career in music, cash can be hard to come, and when it does finally begin to roll in, it's critical that you take the time to reinvest at least a portion of the funds back into your career. Here we look at some smart and effective ways to invest in your music career.

10 Principles Of Great Music Web Design

When it comes to cultivating a professional online presence from which to market your music, a well designed website is absolutely essential. Here we look at some key principles to keep in mind when putting together a website for your band or artist.

Facebook Buys 3 Month Old TBH App, As It Battles For Teens

Facebook announced that it has acquired TBH, a positive-focused anonymous polling app that has become an overnight success with teens. Facebook and its Instagram app are fighting for teen engagement and loosing so far. Launched just three months ago, TBH has gained amazing traction with the demographic that Zuckerberg & Co. seek.

VNUE Acquires Set.fm From PledgeMusic

Just one year after PledgeMusic finalized its acquisition of Set.fm, it has now sold it to live event recording and release platform VNUE for an undisclosed sum. 

TUE. BRIEF: Spotify Refines Playlist Pitches • Indiegogo Adds E-tail • UMG Adds Accelerator • IEBA • More

Tuesday 10.17.17

Music Business News From Around The Web

 Playlist are the music industry's big obsession. But are new "rules" good or bad for indies?

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Last Week In Music Commentary

Commentary from inside the music business this week touched on live radios need to embrace technology for its own survival, how label services could in some ways replace record labels, the ways in which music conferences perpetuate the music industry's gender parity crisis, and more.

Spotify Will Become A Full Stack Music Company [Mark Mulligan]

Spotify needs to become much more than just a music streamer if its going to be ever be profitable, writes analyst Mark Mulligan of MIDiA. And while many of the actions it is likely to take will antagonize its label partners, Spotify will be left with little choice once it becomes a public company answering to stockholders.

6 Creative Social Media Contest Ideas For Engaging With Event-Goers

As an artist, having fans on social media is significantly less valuable if you can't engage with them at all. Contests - provided they're well thought out - can be a great way to get fans involved and boost your events.

4 Things You Can Giveaway In Exchange For An Email Address

While Facebook should be an essential part of any music marketing plan, so much about this and any social network is beyond your control.  Remember MySpace?  But you email list is yours, and yours only.  Here's how to grow your email list:

3 Reason's To Use YouTube's Artist Hub

As an artist, your success is not only in your own best interest, but also YouTube's, as the success of artists using it also benefits their bottom line. Here we look at how musicians can utilize the video sharing platform's Artist Hub.

4 Ways To Identify If Your Mix Is Too Busy (And How To Fix It)

Mixing music is, in many ways, a balancing act. Trying to keep too many elements balanced at once however, can often cause your mix to become overly crowded and busy. Here we look at how to tell if this has happened, and a number of effective solutions for fixing it.

MON. BRIEF: Tech Giants Fight Pirate Crackdown • AR + Music • Live Nation Admits Onerous Ticket Fees • MORE

10.16.17

Music Business News From Around The Web

 How can creators trust tech when they still see headlines like Tech Giants Fight Pirate Crackdown?

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Best Selling Artists Of All Time

From retail to streaming, being able to quantify the number of sales for an album or song has always been an important part measure an artist's success, but doing so accurately has always been difficult. Here we look at the RIAA's ranking of the best selling artists of all time.

Getting It Done: The Week In D.I.Y & Indie Music

Tips? Tricks? Advice? We've got it all this week as we lend independent and DIY artists a hand using tablets and apps to edit music, deciding whether to distribute your music video on YouTube or Vevo and the pros and cons of both, promoting your music via Facebook, and much, much more!

Music Think Tank Weekly Recap: Relationship On Tour • Real Entrepreneurs • Advertise On Facebook • More

On MusicThinkTank this week, we looked at how to maintain a relationship while on tour, the way in which entrepreneurs maintain their venues, how to promote your music on Facebook, and more.

REWIND: The New Music Industry’s Week In Review

In this cycle back through major music industry news from the past week, we revisit Spotify's kicked up revenue but continual losses, how Radiohead's In Rainbows is fairing ten years later (hint: well), Microsoft's farewell to Groove, and much more!

TOP POSTS: This Week’s Most Read Posts On Hypebot

The chart-topping, most often read articles from Hypebot this week covered Billboard's potential addition of YouTube plays ot its chart calculations, the release of a Spotify for Artists dedicated app, the (sort of) death of record labels and emergence of label services, and more!

15 Most Powerful Independent Curators On Spotify

While labels, blogs, networks, and of course Spotify itself are known to have a lot clout when it comes to playlisting culture, we here look at several independent individuals, and the sort of power they wield when it comes to playlists and playlist followers.

Record Labels Are (Kind Of) Dead, Long Live Label Services!

[UPDATED] As the role and relevance of record labels has changed over time, new opportunities have also emerged in the music business, something which these two ex-major label guys are using to their advantage - and helping out their clients in any way they can along the way.

Solutions To Close The YouTube Value Gap

Here Jason Peterson offers up recommendations on how copyright owners and platforms supported through advertising can come together in a common goal closing the market gap and achieving market equilibrium.

5 Band Skills That Can Apply Towards A Career

Although popular notions may suggest that holding down an additional job means you've somehow failed to 'make it' in music, this is far from the truth, and many relatively well known artists still maintain some other form of day job. Here we look five band skills that artists can also apply towards a career.

Warner Music Cuts Deal With Mixcloud

Mixcloud, a British streaming service that allows listeners to share and consume radio shows, recently announced that it is signing on to a licensing agreement with Warner Music Group, and possibly other music giants including Sony and Universal.

Dispatch From MONDO NYC Case Studies in Digital and Traditional Grassroots Artist Development (Cyber PR)

Ariel Hyatt of CyberPR shares takeaways from two important panels at the recent MONDO.NYC gathering: Case Studies in Digital and Traditional Grassroots Artist Development and How Streaming Playlists Work and How to Get On Them.