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TuneCore Acquires DropKloud, Opens Innovation Lab

TuneCore has acquired musician focused app maker DropKloud and will add its co-founders, James DeNino and Kedar Frederic to the TuneCore team. The two will open a TuneCore office in Boston, where they. Continue reading

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Basic Legal Tips For Record Producers

By Wallace Collins on Entertainment Law Blog Producers should be aware of their legal rights when it comes to working with recording artists. These days the music business, particularly the pop. Continue reading

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Benji Rogers, Founder And President Of PledgeMusic, Looks Back On 2014

Benji Rogers, Founder and President of PledgeMusic joins us today for Hypebot.com's 2014 Year End Virtual Panel. Rogers has a hopeful outlook for the collaboration between artists and music streaming. Continue reading

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Tags: Big Machine Records, Billboard Magazine, Mashable, music video, Rdio, Spotify, Streaming media, Taylor Swift, Vevo, YouTube

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20 Most Active Music Fan Armies On Twitter

Twitter is often thought of as populated by technorati, but youthful hoi palloi certainly dominated the short message social network when it came to activity by music fans. 2014 will. Continue reading

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Tags: Adam Levine, Annie (musical), Ariana Grande, Arrangement, Belieber, Charli XCX, Demi Lovato, Iggy Azalea, Justin Bieber, Katy Perry, music industry, Nicki Minaj, One Direction, Taylor Swift, Twitter

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3 Branding Lessons From Music’s Biggest Superstars

By Tyler Allen on Sonicbids Blog They say it takes 10 years of dedication to become an overnight success. This phrase is largely due to all of the things that the public. Continue reading

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Tags: Alan Ferguson (director), Arrangement, Aspect of music, Back to the Crib, Barclays Center, Brazil, Brooklyn, Juelz Santana, music industry, YouTube

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Bandcamp Launches Indie Label Portal

Direct to fan digital sales platform Bandcamp has launched an accompanying portal designed to better serve independent record labels. The new Bandcamp For Labels adds unified accounting and stats across. Continue reading

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Tags: Advent calendar, Artist, Chief operating officer, Compact disc, digital marketing, Disc jockey, Do it yourself, Dubbel, independent music, record label

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James Donio, President Of The Music Business Association Looks Back On 2014

James Donio, President of the Music Business Association (Music Biz) is up next on our Virtual Panel. On the subject of streaming, Donio says, "While we refrain from editorializing on. Continue reading

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Tags: American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, Big K.R.I.T., Billboard 200, Billboard Magazine, Billy Joel, Black Friday (shopping), Nielsen SoundScan, Spotify, Streaming media, YouTube

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BandPage Now Only Spotify Merch Seller As ArtistLink’s Topspin Exits

Topspin, now owned by ArtistLink, has discontinued their merchandise integration with Spotify, leaving BandPage the only option that artists and labels have to sell merchandise on the popular music streamer.. Continue reading

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Tags: Cumulus Media, Digital Music News, Forbes, House of Medici, List of online music databases, Music download, NPD Group, patreon, Spotify, YouTube

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Is It Ever OK To Work For Free In The Music Industry?

The music industry is one of the few industries that most people learn all of the tricks of the trade outside of a classroom. However, most of those insider tricks. Continue reading

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Dave Kusek Of The New Artist Model Looks Back On 2014 [Our Virtual Panel]

Dave Kusek is the founder of the New Artist Model online music business school and former CEO and founder of Berklee Online. Kusek is also the co-author of one of. Continue reading

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Tags: Apple Inc., Asylum Records, Atlantic Records, Big Machine Records, Ed Sheeran, Kurt Hugo Schneider, Rdio, Spotify, Taylor Swift, YouTube

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AdRev Acquires Digital Music Distributor DashGo

YouTube music administration service AdRev has acquired music distribution and marketing platform DashGo for an undisclosed sum. With the addition, AdRev’s parent, AudioMicro, positions itself as a player in the evolving rights management. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 12/16/2014 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: Charli XCX, Duran Duran, Honorific nicknames in popular music, John Frusciante, Nick Rhodes, Record producer, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rock Mafia, Selena Gomez, YouTube

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