Fat Beats & Rhino Records Continue Retail Legacy with Pop-up Shops and Performances
Fat Beats, the record label and music distributor, used to have multiple record stores with in-store events were widely distributed om YouTube. Rhino Records once jad two shops in Los. Continue reading
World’s 12 Worst Piracy Havens & 8 More To Watch
The Office of the United States Trade Representative has released its annual list of the countries that serve as hubs for the world's pirates and counterfeiters. The list contained several. Continue reading
Monday News: Amazon Gaga Loss, Dubber Does BandCamp, Adele Lessons, Google Cuts Apps, More
How much did Amazon lose in 2 days of 99 cent Lady Gaga sales? (Billboard) Projected overall first week sales are 1.15 million. Andrew Dubber shares his recent week at. Continue reading
MTT Weekly Recap: An Ode to The Beauty of Bandcamp
Where The Music Industry Thinks Out Loud Bobby Owsinski: 4 Steps To Transition From Playing Cover Songs To Your Own Music Mark Dowdell: One Man's Ode To The Beauty Of. Continue reading
REWIND – Music Industry’s Week In Review: Gaga, Google, Facebook+Spotify, RIAA Salaries, More
Lady Gaga dominated the week with her new release. Major brands like Google flocked to be a part of the campaign. Amazon offered the album for $.99 and so many. Continue reading
2000 Things to Generate 20,000 – Give a Musical History Tour
On Music Think Tank, Michael Brandvold challenges you to do 2000 things to generate 20,000 fans. One thing he suggests: Give a musical history tour. View the single list of. Continue reading
Google Offered Labels $100 Million To License Cloud Music Service
(UPDATED) Google offered the for major record labels an advance of as much as $100 million to license a more cloud music service than it launched last month as Google. Continue reading
Tell Us How You Get New Fans. Win $100.
David Meerman Scott wrote “if you want 20,000 fans you must do 2000 different things that each generate 10 fans.” Michael Brandvold took up the challenge and is compiling a. Continue reading
Napster & Kazaa Founders Answer: Does Innovation Always Have To Be This Messy? [Video]
At eG8 in Pairs, Reuters TV asked Kazaa and Skype co-founder Niklas Zennström and Napster and Facebook co-founder Sean Parker, if disruption of an industry always has to be messy;. Continue reading