CD Baby Free: Direct To Fan Download Sales Even If You’re Distributed By Tunecore, Others

CD Baby yesterday launched CD Baby Free – a Bandcamp-like direct to fan music download sales tool that opens the company's popular indie music store to all artists – even. Continue reading

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New Value In Trading A Song For An Email Address

With album sales, broadcast radio, and many other mainstream revenue sources for artists fading quickly into "has beens", we are being forced into a new era of networking & promotion.. Continue reading

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5 Tips For Musicians On Maintaining Great Relationships With The Music Press

By Jamie Ludwig from the SonicBids Blog. For an independent musician, scoring coverage in a media outlet may seem like the well-earned reward in a long cycle of pitching and. Continue reading

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CMA Awards Announce 2014 Nominees

ABC's Good Morning America hosted the announcement of the Country Music Association Awards 2014 nominees early Wednesday morning.  Seven categories of CMA nominations will be announced on GMA at 10am ET today. Check back. Continue reading

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AM NEWS BRIEF: Universal Music Exec Steals $1M, Disney vs Deadmau5, BMG Buys Infectious, Twitter Tweaks & More

WEDNESDAY 9.3.2014 Music Business News & Views From Around The Web  CLICK HERE  Updated Continuously @ Hypebot's More News Tab 

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This Is My Jam’s Slow Music Movement Gets Deeper And More Social

This Is My Jam has managed to develop from its core concept of picking one song at a time to share with friends (slow music) to something more complex without. Continue reading

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DIY Tour Tips: Surviving The Long Drive

By Matthew Ebel who is currently Kickstarting a new album. I’ve played concerts all over the USA and there’s one constant that most touring musicians already know: People don’t know. Continue reading

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New On Our Music Industry Jobs Board: Nielsen, Forty 6ix AM, Berklee, Blue Note, ONErpm & More

New on the Hypebot Music Industry Jobs Board is Sr. Manager, Business Development & Client Solutions at Nielsen and a Day-to-Day Artist Manager at Forty 6ix AM.  There are also great job opening. Continue reading

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PonoMusic Extends Crowdfunding Campaign, Neil Young Signs Pono Certificates For Christmas

PonoMusic followed a Kickstarter campaign for $6.225 million with an equity crowdfunding campaign that's already reached $7,173,700 in investments. Though they haven't updated the $4 million funding goal, they've extended. Continue reading

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Gig Booking Site Sidestage Adds London

Direct gig booking platform Sidestage has expanded from its base in Berlin to add London.  This simple interface designed to facilitate finding a band or DJ for a private gig. Continue reading

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Musicians as Entrepreneurs

Today's music industry does not lend itself to a "one-size-fits-all" model of any sort. It takes experimentation and exploration to develop a strategy and to execute it efficiently. Times have. Continue reading

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