Use Your Creativity To Increase Music Merch Sales
By Dave Kusek from the Sonicbids Blog. A lot of people in the music industry call merchandise one of the best revenue streams musicians have left. Sometimes, however, getting people. Continue reading
Read The Email From Grooveshark’s Co-Founder That Lost A Lawsuit and Doomed His Company
Despite a defiant response yesterday, Grooveshark appears to be a company on the brink of failure. New York Judge Thomas Griesa all but negated the company's Digital Millennium Copyright Act safe. Continue reading
10 Reasons A Lawyer Won’t Shop Your Demo
By Mita Carriman Esq from the Carriman Law Group PLLC. As a music lawyer, one of the most frequent services that artists contact me about is for demo shopping -and. Continue reading
This Week’s Chart Report: “Cheek To Cheek: Ekes Out A #1, Streisand Stays Strong
Three albums sold more than 125,000 copies last week to finish in the top 3 of the Nielsen charts published by Billboard. Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga’s duets album "Cheek. Continue reading
IEBA Names 2014 Award Winners
The International Event Buyers Association (IEBA) named the winners of its 2014 awards on Tuesday night at the Omni in Nashville. The Doobie Brothers headlined a start studded event that. Continue reading
Connected Artists: 2 Indies Merge To Form EU’s Biggest EDM Agency
Panos Ayassotelis's Paragon Artists and Eli Booker's ATM Artists are merging to form Connected Artists, an indie agency focusing on electronic dance music. The combined company's roster would represent Arty, Avicii,. Continue reading
Getting On The Charts And Other Reasons BitTorrent’s New Bundles Are A Win For Musicians
So Thom Yorke, famed early adopter, dropped an alpha-stage BitTorrent Bundle with some free stuff and some stuff you pay for. The new part was that instead of trading an. Continue reading
The Hunt For Vinyl Record Presses
While we all know that record pressing plants are facing a shortage of presses, we also know that some plants are finding new presses somewhere, somehow. Mark Guarino at The. Continue reading
Why The Music Industry Needs To Take A Positive View Of Streaming Music
By Mark Mulligan from Music Industry Blog. Disruptive technology and the change it brings can be overwhelming, particularly when it threatens to change forever all that we have known. Streaming. Continue reading