A Musician’s Minimum Sustainable Scale
This guest post comes from Fava, who blogs as The Cynical Musician. How big must you be to call yourself successful? I have no idea – it all depends on. Continue reading
Slacker Goes After MOG, Rdio, Spotify With New On Demand Music Service
Slacker has added ON demand music, Slacker Premium Radio with 8 million tracks AND competING directly with MOG, Rdio, Rhapsody and if it ever makes it TO the US, Spotify. . Continue reading
Were Major Labels Right To Stay Away From The Cloud … And Should We Too?
David Greenberg, Cyde Smith and I recently shared our thoughts on the launch of cloud music services from Amazon and Google. Today, Robin Davey (@mr_robin_davey), a musician, artist and Head. Continue reading
Tunecore CEO Jeff Price Defends Flat vs. % Music Distribution Fees
When Tunecore raised its yearly flat fee digital distributions rates recently, many users supported the change while a few vowed to leave the service. Yesterday, after competitor CD Baby offered. Continue reading
Ariel Hyatt’s Music Marketing Basics: Newsletters, Products & Polls
Ariel Hyatt, fresh from the ASCAP Expo in Los Angeles, has some music marketing lessons for all artists. As many know, making it in the music industry is very hard.. Continue reading
News Brief: Sony’s Net, Bing’s Social, Spotify Beats Radio, Apple Launch?, SoundScan Rules & More
Sony's Playstation and Music Unlimited Networks finally detail welcome back packages for North America and Europe. (ars) Bing bumps up Facebook options to outsocial Google. (Wired) In Sweden, Spotify More. Continue reading
How Jonathan Coulton Made $500,000 Last Year As A D.I.Y. Musician
(UPDATED) Last year d.y.i. musician Jonathan Coulton grossed about $500,000 from his music career; and because he's a mostly solo artist with low overhead, he got to keep most of. Continue reading
A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words: Abandon Text, Go Visual To Drive Traffic
Scott Perry, in his excellent free newsletter and site New Music Tipsheet, advises using more picture posts to drive traffic to your band's site and Facebook page: "I know studies. Continue reading
Karmin & 2CELLOS: Using Cover Songs To Find Fame And Fortune
Playing cover songs is an odd phenomenon that's often considered a crowd-pleasing yet uncreative approach to music. Yet occasionally, we see examples of cover songs done in such a unique. Continue reading
TuneCore Explains Major Price Hike, CD Baby Responds With Discount
Popular digital distributor TuneCore recently raised prices from $19.99 a year per album distributed to $49.99 per year. While many users still find TuneCore a bargain, the reaction from others. Continue reading
Echo Nest Compares It’s Playlist Engine To iTunes Genius, Google Instant Mix
Listeners often prefer to have their music playlists created for them. Doing it yourself is just too time consuming. They also lead to new music discovery; so much effort has. Continue reading
