Financial Impact of Songwriter Catalog Sales

Pink Floyd catalog sale: How will brands use this iconic music?

The Pink Floyd catalog sale to Sony Music for $400 million opens the door for their hits to appear in movies and ads. Will brands find creative ways to use this iconic progressive music?

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This Week In Music Commentary

This week out music commentary comes from a former RIAA exec letting loose, T Bone Burnett railing against Google, and Roger Waters as he considers a protest concert on the. Continue reading

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Roger Waters Eyes “The Wall” Protest Concert On U.S. – Mexico Border

Roger Waters is considering staging a performance of Pink Floyd's 1979 classic "The Wall" on the US-Mexico border as a protest against the immigration policies of US President Donald Trump. 

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Vinyl Sales Tops Digital Downloads In UK

For the first time ever, the recording industry made more money from vinyl album sales than downloaded albums in the UK last week. According to figures published by the Entertainment. Continue reading

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11 Popular Artists Still Refusing To Stream Their Music

Although streaming may be becoming the dominant form of music consumption, not all musicians are ready to cave to the medium. Here we look at eleven artists still unwilling to make their. Continue reading

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Old Music Is Outselling New Music For The First Time Ever

Even Adele can't save the legacy music industry… Old music is outselling new music for the first time ever, according to Nielsen.  Some of its has to do with millennials. Continue reading

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UK Live Summit Notches Another Successful Year

More than 300 delegates from across the live music industry, including grassroots music promoters, stadium operators and festival organizers, gathered for the annual LIVE UK Summit on 15 October, discussing. Continue reading

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I Think Jay Z Destroyed My SoundCloud Account

A tale of artistic freedom, copyright infringement, hypocrisy, and the music business: "Over the past several years, I’ve uploaded 50 tracks to my SoundCloud account  -18 of which are hip-hop remixes. Continue reading

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Week’s Most Read Posts On Hypebot

Jay Z's music service TIDAL, Twitter's video service Periscope and The Beatles' recording studio Abbey Road were each the subject of one of Hypebot's Most Read stories last week. And there's more:

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The Death of the (Musical) Middle Class

Guest Post by Courtney Harding on This Week In Music Tech Tumblr With the publication of Ethan Kaplan’s totally brilliant “Generic Article About Spotify” a few weeks ago, I thought we’d truly. Continue reading

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