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Fans Have A Growing Willingness To Actually Pay For Music [MusicWatch]

Music fans are showing a growing willingness to actually pay for music, and that is helping to drive the current growth in the recorded music industry. In fact, the value of those fans grew 11% last year driven by tens of millions of $10 per month on-demand subscriptions, according to MusicWatch’s Annual Music Study. 

Sync To Be A Focus Of This Year's MUSEXPO

MUSEXPO is set to return for the 13th edition of its flagship Los Angeles event at the W Hotel Hollywood from April 30th - May 3rd 2017.

TuneCore Now Offers Musicians and Indie Labels Fast, Low Cost Royalty Advances

To offer royalty advances to artists and labels, TuneCore today launched TuneCore Direct Advance in collaboration with Lyric Financial. The new service provides U.S.-based TuneCore customers the option of quick, automated advances on their future distribution sales revenue.

A Look At Just How Fast Streaming Music Is Growing [CHART]

It's no secret that music streaming is exploding. For the first time last year, the record labels made more money from streaming than from the sales of digital downloads and physical good combined. This chart chronicles music's streaming explosion.

Indie Labels Report Struggle With 'Whack-A-Mole' Digital Takedowns, 30% Have Given Up Trying [SURVEY]

A survey conducted by A2IM (American Association of Independent Music) and Future of Music Coalition (FMC) confirms that independent labels are struggling to deal with unauthorized use of their recordings and videos.

How The Music Industry Makes Money In 2016? [INFOGRAPHIC]

Streaming is increasingly the new normal of how consumers listen to music; and according to the RIAA, streaming brought in just over half of the US music industry’s revenue in 2016.  But where does the other half  of the money earned come from?

CD Baby Expands Major Latin American Footprint with Local Office In Argentina

CD Baby has expanded into Argentina hiring Martín Liviciche to open a local office. Already one of the largest distributors in Latin America, CD Baby represents 20,000 artists from Brazil, Colombia, Chile and Mexico.

MoneyBaggYo, Christian Nodal Top This Week's Pandora Trendsetters Chart

MoneyBaggYo and Christian Nodal lead this week's Pandora Trendsetters Chart. This chart tracks which 20 artists that listeners have been using to create the highest number of Pandora stations over the past week, and reflects which up-and-coming artists are currently trending on the platform.

Congress' PROMOTE Act Grants Right To Pull Songs Off Radio, Since They're Not Paying You Anyway

Congressmen Darryl Issa and Ted Deutch recently introduced the new bipartisan PROMOTE Act which, if passed, would grant owners of sound recording copyrights the exclusive right to prohibit the radio broadcast of said recordings.

Are UMG, Labels Encouraging Spotify's 50 Million Free Users To Become Pirates? [UPDATED]

[UPDATED] With today's news of a Spotify, Universal Music Group deal that includes two week windows that make some album releases available only to paid subscribers, this article which we published yesterday is all the more poignant. In it, Ross Pruden, points out that windowing and other exclusives encourage Spotify's 50+ million free users to become music pirates.

Warner Music Group Sells Music Distributor Zebralution To Management, Indie Label Investors

As part of a divestment package negotiated way back in 2012 with Impala and Merlin, Warner Music Central Europe has sold digital distributor Zebralution back to its founders and a small group of  indie music industry executives.

Indie Band The Wild Reeds Robbed During Video Shoot, Turn It Into A Positive - #indiePROUD

Being ready for any opportunity and turning lemons into lemonade are at the core of the indie diy music ethos. So kudos to The Wild Reeds who turned a smash and grab robbery into a cornerstone of their new video and, as proven by the fact that we're posting this, a marketing story.

Streaming Now Generates More Revenue For Music Industry Than Downloads, Physical Combined

Double digit growth in streaming in 2016 meant that Spotify, Apple Music and their competitors now account for 51.4% of all U.S. music revenue. Digital downloads were 24.1% in 2016 and physical was 21.8% of total revenue.

A2IM's Libera Indie Music Awards Announces 2017 Lineup

The American Association of Independent Music (A2IM) 2017 Libera Awards celebrating indie music has announced its 2017 performance lineup.

Music Discover Platform TuneGo Launches A Record Label

TuneGO, a music discovery platform aimed at working musicians and industry professionals announced that they are launching their own record label aimed at helping to break artists.

#DIYProud - Help Us Celebrate Indie Artist, Label Success Stories

Help us celebrate and share the growing number of DIY and indie music success stories by using the hashtag #DIYproud. With more than 54,000 @Hypebot followers, we're always looking for new ways to amplify the information and stories that we're sharing online.  

A New Strategy For Releasing Music

As the music industry continues to change, so too must the strategy for releasing music. With the single once again more important than the album, artists and labels both big and small are having to reevaluate when to make their material available, and in what capacity.

5 Things Record Labels Look For

While producing quality music is certainly important, and a big part of record labels taking notice of your music, getting a label deal requires more than that. Here we review the five essential things labels consider before offering an artists a deal.

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 New York City.

WIN Releases Global Overview Of Chart Reporting

Global independent music trade group Worldwide Independent Network (WIN) has released a comprehensive new study, which provides the first ever global overview of chart reporting.

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Bandcamp Makes A Pitch To Indie Labels

As a member of A2IM, Bandcamp made a pitch to serve the association's many independent label members. The blog post offers an interesting insight into how the company has grown from being a quirky, friendly and cost effective indie artist toolkit into a robust music industry services provider.

Welcome To The Post-DIY Music Era [Mark Mulligan]

Business is booming at CD Baby, Bandcamp, Tunecore, Bandzoogle and a host of other service providers for DIY musicians. But from Chance The Rapper to Stormzy and beyond, we are also witnessing a new chapter in artist self-development: The Post-DIY Music Era.

Mutualism UK: Building Scenes In Surprising Places [INTERVIEW]

In this piece we hear from the founders of Mutualism UK, a growing scene based 50 miles outside of Manchester, as they discuss the origins of the organization, the challenges of growing in a small town, and what their goals for the future are.

How To Setup Your Next Album Release [Music Biz Weekly Podcast]

We're proud to be working with the Music Biz Weekly podcast to share this steady stream of actionable information and great guests from the front lines of the new music industry. This week, Michael Brandvold and Jay Gilbert discuss how  to setup a new release and what goes into it.

Label Services Firm Ditto Music Expands to US With LA Office

Digital distributor and record label services provider Ditto Music is opening its first U.S. office in Los Angeles to serve as a new hub for its portfolio of products.

MTV Names 2017 "Woodies" Emerging Artists Nominees, Voting Is Exclusively On Snapchat

MTV today announced the 2017 edition of its emerging artists awards, the “MTV Woodies.” Fans can only vote for each award by taking a screenshot of their favorite artist on Snapchat.

Independents Grabbed Biggest Share Of Global Music Market In 2016

Independent music companies beat out the three major music groups to capture the biggest share of the 2016 global music market in several categories including recorded music, physical goods and music publishing.

Jack White Celebrates Third Man's New Detroit Vinyl Pressing Plant [VIDEO]

Third Man Records has opened a state-of-the-art vinyl production facility in the heart of Detroit's historic Cass Corridor neighborhood; and Jack White visited to celebrate the unveiling.

After 40 Years, Is The CMJ College Radio Chart Dead?

After 40 years the CMJ Chart - the only chart that measures college radio - may be gone forever. If true, its a blow both to college radio and to the many indie artists and labels that used it to launch their careers.