New Money For Music: The Taylor Swift Effect
By Faza on TheCynicalMusician.com For the benefit of everyone who hasn’t gone outside recently – and folks checking in five years from now (happens more often than you’d think) – a quick. Continue reading
Audiam Launches International Association of Music Publishers (IAMP)
Audiam is aiming to retrieve accurate payment for publishers and songwriters globally for the digital use of their compositions with their launch of International Association of Music Publishers. Audiam recognizes. Continue reading
Grooveshark Fires Back After Spotify CEO Calls Them A “Pirate Service”
The subject of multiple lawsuits, Grooveshark has long been music streaming's bad boy; and that extends to a willingness to fight back when someone throws a punch. That certainly was this. Continue reading
Front Gate Partners With Umbel To Bring More Data To Event Ticketing & Marketing
Austin-based Front Gate Tickets has announced a strategic alliance with another Austin-based company, Umbel, to provide comprehensive analytics from platforms such as Facebook to their clients. Using a system it calls. Continue reading
A Guide to Getting Gigs (Part 3): How to Promote Your Shows
By Yannick Ilunga on TheJazzSpotlight.com This is the final part of the three-article series A Guide to Getting Gigs. As the title suggests, in What to Do Before Looking for Gigs I talked about what. Continue reading
Why the ‘no platinum albums’ story in the US probably doesn’t mean the sky is falling.
By Steve Lawson from SteveLawson.net There’s one story that’s been circulating a lot over the last few days amongst musicians on social media – “2014 is first year ever with ZERO platinum-certified records” – it. Continue reading
You’ll Never Guess Which Country Hosts The Most Pirate Sites
The UK IP Crime Group has released it's annual IP Crime Report. While it showed significant progress was made in the war against online piracy, it also revealed the United. Continue reading
53% Of US Adults Spend 39 Minutes A Day On Facebook
New Facebook user stats analyzed by eMarketer underscore just how important a tool the social network is for music marketers. 52.8% of U.S. adults 18+ – 129.5 million people –. Continue reading
Who Still Buys Music In 2014? [INFOGRAPHIC]
UPDATED: Even with the plethora of free and almost free music along with the zillion track libraries available to anyone willing to shell out just $5 – $10 a month,. Continue reading
The 5 Most Frequently Signed Music Publishing Deals
By Hugh McIntyre from the Sonicbids Blog. Music publishing is something that many small artists don’t think about, and, to be honest, some of them don’t need to. If you're. Continue reading
