Month: November 2015

This Week In Music Commentary

This week in the world of music commentary, Adam Levine sounds off on the incompetence of record labels, Taylor Swift is being sued, and Pearl Jam continue to try and do the right. Continue reading

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Tags: Adam Levine, album, Apple Inc., ASAP Rocky, Carbon footprint, Ryan Adams, Shake It Off, Spotify, Taylor Swift, Twitter

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Music Think Tank Weekly Recap: Why Empowerment Is Important To Musicians • 5 Ways To Integrate Playlisting Into Your Marketing • More

This week on MusicThinkTank, we hear about America's best festivals, why empowerment matters in music, how to begin "Playlisting", and much more.

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Tags: Bruce Springsteen, Darlene Love, Elvis Costello, Forbidden Nights, iHeartRadio, Imperial Bedroom, Kris Kristofferson, New York City, Oliver's Army, Steven Van Zandt

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REWIND: The New Music Industry’s Week In Review

Napster border-hops to Canada, the Mayor of London establishes a task force to save music venues, and we look at a complete list of 2015's Country Music Award Winners. All. Continue reading

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Tags: Boris Johnson, Labour Party (UK), London, Mayor of London, music industry, Music venue, Napster, National Football League, Premier League, Sadiq Khan

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Do Messaging Apps Foretell The End Of Music Streaming Services?

With the rise of apps such as WhatsApp, many people are moving away from larger public social networks in favor of smaller group and one-on-one messaging services. This raises some. Continue reading

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Tags: Apple Inc., Compact disc, Facebook, IOS, IPhone, iTunes, Popular music, Snapchat, Spotify, WhatsApp

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How Your SoundCloud Upload And Digital Distribution Can Work Together

As with many web-based marketing strategies, it pays to cast a wide net, and by confining yourself to a limited number of online retailers, or using exclusively SoundCloud, you could. Continue reading

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Tags: Apple Inc., Believe Digital, Deezer, Digital distribution, Facebook, iTunes, Soundcloud, Spotify, Streaming media, Tunecore

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How To Create The Perfect Custom Thumbnail For Your Videos

The thumbnail for a video can make a massive difference in whether or not someone clicks on it or not. This means it is important to create a custom thumbnail when. Continue reading

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Tags: App Store (iOS), Apple Inc., Do it yourself, Graphics software, Hypebot, IOS, IPad, IPhone, Pixelmator, YouTube

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What Are Your Favorite Music Industry Hashtags? We Share Ours

Way back in 2011, we recently asked Hypebot readers to share their favorite and most productive hashtags for music industry news. Their recommendations then ranged from the popular to the now. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 11/06/2015 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (2)

Tags: 2010s in music, American Society of Composers, Apple Inc., Atlanta, Authors and Publishers, Bandcamp, Bando (sport), Bette Midler, CD Baby, Claque, Hypebot, independent music, iTunes, music industry, podcast, royalties, Taylor Swift, Twitter

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5 Methods For Integrating Playlisting Into Your Digital Marketing Campaign

As more and more listeners are finding new music on their streaming service of choice via playlists, how to get your music on to one such playlist is something the. Continue reading

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Tags: André 3000, Android (operating system), Application software, Artist, Bela Lugosi, playlist, Soundcloud, Spotify, Streaming media, YouTube

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Music Publishing News Roundup 10.6.15: Swift Lawsuit • Pan-Euro Licensing Hub • Napster To Canada

Taylor Swift is facing a $42 million lawsuit for alleged plagiarism in her song “Shake It Off”. The lawsuit was filed by Jesse Graham, an obscure R&B singer, who alleges. Continue reading

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Tags: Alexander Novak, App Store (iOS), Apple Inc., European Commission, European External Action Service, European Union, Google, Shishir Mehrotra, Spotify, YouTube

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AM NEWS BRIEF: Will Adele Stream New Album? • ADA Expands Label Services • RIAA Likes TPP • More

Friday 11.6.2015 Music Business News & Views From Around The Web To stream or not to stream. Adele's answer could start a trend. Updated continuously under our More News tab. CLICK HERE

Bruce Houghton on 11/06/2015 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: Acting, Adele (singer), Apple Inc., Arctic Monkeys, Artist, Billboard Magazine, Grammy Award, Pharrell Williams, Singing, Sony

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10 Free Plugins Changing The Way Artists Make Music

For those looking to switch things up at their audio workstation, this list of plugins offers a variety of exciting effects to add to your digital music arsenal at no cost.

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Tags: Ableton, Access Virus, Additive synthesis, Adobe Illustrator, Data compression, Digital audio, Google, iTunes, Lempel–Ziv–Markov chain algorithm, Plug-in (computing)

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