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A2IM Indie Week Announces Initial 2017 Speakers

A2IM has announced the initial speakers for its Indie Week’s 2017 Annual General Meeting held on Thursday, June 8th at 10AM at Clemente Soto Velez Cultural and Educational Center in. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 03/22/2017 in Conventions & Awards | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: 3rd Ward, Abuse prevention program, Albany, American Association of Independent Music, Executive director, Manhattan, New Jersey, New York, New York City, Richard James Burgess

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CD Baby Publishing Now Represents 100,000 Songwriters, Expanding To 18 More Countries

Indie music services platform CD Baby is now providing publishing administration to more than 100,000 songwriters, the company announced today, alongside a major expansion into new territories.

Bruce Houghton on 03/07/2017 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: Apple Inc., Apple Music, Disc jockey, independent music, Las Vegas, New York, playlist, Spotify, Streaming media, Subscription business model, Twitter

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Mass Appeal Lands $6 Million Investment From Universal Music, Usher, Nas, Others

Last year, Universal Music Group began investing in music focused films; and today they expanded their content interests with a big bet on NYC based graffiti/hip hop culture and lifestyle. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 03/06/2017 in Major Labels | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: All Eyez on Me (film), Apple Inc., Artificial Intelligence, Associated Press, Faith Evans, New York, New York City, Series A round, The Notorious B.I.G., The Ventures

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10 Graphic Design Trends To Make Your Next Music Project Pop

I often advise my students at Berklee Online and the musicians that we work with at Skyline Artists that it is smart resource allocation to spend a little bit extra on. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 03/06/2017 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (2)

Tags: Aaron Small, Akron, Albany, Album cover, Allegheny County Jail, Allegheny County Sheriff, Amazon S3, Amazon Web Services, Apple Inc., Artist, Berklee College of Music, Boston, music industry, New York, Newspaper, Ohio, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Question of fact, Terms of service, Uniform Resource Locator, United States, Website

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Recorded Music Revenues Up $1.1 Billion In 2016

While A2IM CEO Richard James Burgess rightly pointed out that independent labels are undervalued in many studies, it is undeniable that 2016 was a year of strong growth for the entire. Continue reading

Guest Post on 03/02/2017 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: Apple Music, Grammy Award, Jay-Z, Napster, New York, Prince (musician), Purple Rain (film), Spotify, Streaming media, Tidal (service)

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Spotify Is Deleting It’s Inbox And Messaging Feature

Ever wish that you could communicate with fans and playlisters on Spotify? Forget it. At a time when most apps are encouraging communications, Spotify is deleting its own messaging system.

Bruce Houghton on 02/28/2017 in Music Tech | Permalink | Comments (4)

Tags: 4 World Trade Center, Apple Music, Application programming interface, Data analysis, Netflix, New York, Spotify, Statistics, Streaming media, The New York Times

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NY Court Declares No Performance Rights For Flo and Eddie: “POOF” Goes 5 Million Dollars

In the latest look at the ongoing saga of Flo and Eddie and Sirius XM. For a while it looked as though Flo and Eddie were set to receive quite. Continue reading

Guest Post on 02/22/2017 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: Appellate court, copyright, Microsoft, New York, Royalty payment, Sirius XM Holdings, Stored Communications Act, Supreme Court of the United States, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, United States Department of Justice

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REWIND: The New Music Industry’s Week In Review

This week, as we flip back through a full seven days of exciting music industry news, we revisit Songkick's trade secret sharing scandal, Sirius's victory in a pre-72 royalty case,. Continue reading

admin on 02/18/2017 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: Antisemitism, H3h3 Productions, List of YouTubers, Maker Studios, New York, PewDiePie, Sirius XM Holdings, The Wall Street Journal, The Walt Disney Company, YouTube

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Sirius XM Wins Flo & Eddie Pre-72 Royalties Case, musicFIRST Calls On Congress To Right The Wrong

UPDATE: The U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a Federal District Court ruling. Today's decision means that there are no performance fees due on sound recordings created prior. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 02/17/2017 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: Adult contemporary music, copyright, FM broadcasting, Heidi Heitkamp, IPhone, Ireland, John Barrasso, Microsoft, New York, North Dakota Democratic-Nonpartisan League Party, Sound recording and reproduction, Stored Communications Act, Supreme Court of the United States, Susan L. Carney, Texas, United States, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, United States Department of Justice, United States district court, Wyoming Republican Party

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Gasparilla – A Different Kind Of Music Festival [INTERVIEW]

Gasparilla Music Festival has been seeing steady growth over the past several years. Here Executive Director David Cox sat down to share the festival's vision, as well the challenge of. Continue reading

Guest Post on 02/16/2017 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: Albany County, Allan Cole, Alliance Defending Freedom, AM1, Andre Hal, Board of directors, BoardSource, Bridgestone Arena, Executive director, New York, Nonprofit organization

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