Last week in music industry commentary
Over the past week, music industry insiders weighed in on the “work hard, playlist hard” mentality musicians should cultivate, why songwriters deserve more compensation, the reason middle-class musicians need niche, not scale, and more.
- ‘Work hard, playlist hard’ says Chartmetric’s Mike Warner
- Smart artists are live-streaming their album launches
- ‘Songwriters are the lowest paid person in the economic equation’ and Merck Mercuriadis is bankrolling a Guild to fight back
- Middle-class musicians need niche, not scale [Mark Mulligan]
- Where’s my money?’ songwriters, publishers ask MLC