CD Baby has stopped selling CDs. What options are left for indie artists?
CD Baby recently announced that they are exiting the CD sales business. What options are still available for indie musicians who still want to sell CDs online? Michael Brandvold and. Continue reading
Your Morning Coffee Podcast: Labels cool on Viral Artists • $1.2B Vinyl boom • Music release strategies
Episode 147 of Your Morning Coffee: Weekly News for the New Music Business podcast with hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart is available now. Episode 147 On this week’s edition. Continue reading
What’s the best CD package for you? Digipak vs. Jewel Case
Both Digipak and Jewel Case offer a variety of packaging options for your next album or EP, but which one is best for your brand? by Andre Calilhanna of Disc. Continue reading
50% of Vinyl buyers DON’T own a record player: Music as a Souvenir
As the massive multi-year vinyl resurgence continues, it would be fair to assume that most of those hundreds of thousands of record buyers owned something to play their purchases on.. Continue reading
Alliance distributed 800,000 vinyl records for Record Store Day sales
Alliance Entertainment shipped 800,000 vinyl units to independent record stores for last weekend’s Record Store Day. Related retail sales were expected to surpass $32 million. While Alliance is the largest. Continue reading
How to fan fund a vinyl record release
Learn about companies that will do the heavy lifting of manufacturing and selling vinyl records with little or no risk to you. by Randi Zimmerman of Symphonic Blog Want to. Continue reading
What are the world’s Top 10 Music Markets?
What are the top 10 markets for music globally? The recent IFPI Global Music Report answers the question and adds some regional context. As of 2022, the world’s Top 10. Continue reading
Metallica supports vinyl production by buying a pressing plant
Metallica and many other artists have found growing vinyl sales success. To keep that momentum and help overcome long manufacturing wait times. the band has purchased its own vinyl pressing. Continue reading
Help Independent Tracks Succeed (HITS) Act reintroduced in Congress
A bipartisan bill has been introduced in Congress designed to help independent musicians, technicians, songwriters, and producers by allowing them to deduct 100% of recording expenses in the year incurred. Continue reading
Rise & fall of music formats show ‘the process of creative destruction’
As the multi-year resurgence in vinyl proved, and Taylor Swift’s recent download flash sale reaffirmed, old music formats seldom really die. But their trajectory does reveal what James English calls. Continue reading
