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Music Think Tank Weekly Recap: Master The Side Hustle • Celebrate Success • Best Musician Documentaries • More

This week on MusicThinkTank, we looked at how to master the side hustle, the best way for artists and musicians to party successfully, looked at some of the greatest documentaries. Continue reading

admin on 02/18/2017 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: Adele, Alessia Cara, Drake (musician), E-book, Ed Sheeran, Largehearted Boy, PopMatters, Reading (process), The New York Times, Top 40

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FRI. BRIEF: Spotify Promotes Katy Perry • Beats Now Come w/ 3 Months Apple Music • Pandora Stumbles • More

FRIDAY 2.10.17 Music Business News From Around The Web Music's New 1%: Spotify may not believe in exclusives, but it certainly embraces selective artists marketing. Updated continuously under our More News tab

Bruce Houghton on 02/10/2017 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: Apple Music, Billboard Magazine, Business Insider, Golden Axe, Grammy Award, New York, Spotify, Streaming media, The New York Times, The Times

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New York Times Subscribers Now Get Free Spotify Premium

On-demand music streamers are all pretty much stuck charging $/€/£ 9.99 – much to there detriment, according to MIDiA's Mark Mulligan. So to attract new customers, they are constantly experimenting with. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 02/08/2017 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (1)

Tags: Advertising, Allstate, Average revenue per user, Digital media, Donald Trump, music, News satire, Reuters, Spotify, Subscription business model, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal

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WED. BRIEF: Tidal Touts Exclusives • Spotify Pirates Attracts Pirates, Kills Downloads • Broadway Dips • More

Wednesday 12.28.16 Music Business News From Around The Web Tidal crowed about exclusives in its year end report but failed to share subscriber stats. Not a good sign…. Updated continuously. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 12/28/2016 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (0)

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President Obama Signs “Better Online Ticket Sales (BOTS) Act of 2016”

In a rare example of bipartisanship, the U.S. Congress has passed and President Obama has signed a bill that outlaws all ticket bots. Bots are computer programs that enable ticket brokers. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 12/16/2016 in Live & Touring | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: Barack Obama, CBS This Morning, Democratic National Committee, Donald Trump, Presidency of Barack Obama, Republican National Committee, The New York Times, The Washington Post, United States Congress, White House

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Checkmate: Frank Ocean Goes Independent

After ditching Def Jam and successfully releasing his latest album Blonde independently it seems rapper Frank Ocean has chosen to fully strike out on his own. Here we look at. Continue reading

Guest Post on 11/29/2016 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (1)

Tags: .NET Framework, Alden Ehrenreich, American Family Association, American Society of Composers, Android (operating system), AOL, Application programming interface, Authors and Publishers, Business Insider, IOS, The New York Times

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This Week In Music Commentary

In this week's commentary section, industry members way in on what's been lost in the streaming age, if it might just be time to make music profitable once again, and. Continue reading

admin on 11/05/2016 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: ABC News, Aloe Blacc, Donald Trump, Facebook, Hillary Clinton, Israelites, National Music Publishers’ Association, Op-ed, The New York Times, Twitter

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RESOLVED: Day Long DDOS Attack That Brought Down Spotify, SoundCloud, Others Ends, Homeland Security Investigating

UPDATE 2: Spotify, SoundCloud, Twitter and other major sites were down or loading slowly all day on Friday thanks to a massive Distributed Denial Of Services (DD0S) attack. By Friday evening the. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 10/22/2016 in Music Tech | Permalink | Comments (1)

Tags: Amazon Web Services, AOL, Application programming interface, Disc jockey, Donald Trump, Entertainment Weekly, GitHub, Heroku, Internal Revenue Service, Internet of things, JSON, Soundcloud, The Boston Globe, The New York Times, United States, United States Department of Homeland Security, YouTube

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Music Publishing News Roundup 10.21.16: Google, Amazon Exploit Songwriter Loophole • Australasian Revenue • Core Rights + SOCAN

Australasian collection society APRA AMCOS reported record revenue of a third of a billion Australian dollars for the financial year 2015-2016.

Bob Baker on 10/21/2016 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: American Music Award, American Society of Composers, Apple Inc., Authors and Music Publishers of Canada, Authors and Publishers, Chris Castle, Copyright registration, Google, Library of Congress, Society of Composers, songwriter, The New York Times, United States Copyright Office, United States Department of Justice, YouTube

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Spotify, Pandora And Apple Each Tackle Music Discovery And Personalization Differently

Delivering the best personalized music experience is the subject of much effort and hand wringing in the conference rooms of every music streamer. And how each service uses artificial intelligence,. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 10/18/2016 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: Apple Inc., Apple Music, Comparison of on-demand streaming music services, Google Play, Internet radio, Pandora Radio, record label, Spotify, Streaming media, Subscription business model, The New York Times, YouTube

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