#Fangagement: Artists Crowdsourcing Opinion – Interview 5: Michael Shoup (@12SouthMusic)
Interview by C. Vincent Plummer (@cvpmusic) – co-founder and social strategist for Bedloo.com Michael Shoup, 12South Music I am here today with Michael Shoup. He is a musician, designer and digital entrepreneur—who. Continue reading
gTar Licensing Deals Make 2 Million Song Tutorials Available
By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. Incident Tech, maker of the advanced, iPhone-powered gTar, says it has signed landmark deals with major music publishers Sony/ATV Music Publishing and EMI Music. Continue reading
Kickstarter Passes $1 Billion In Pledges
Monday morning crowdfunding platform Kickstarter announced that it had surpassed $1 billion in pledges from 5.7 million people in 224 countries on all seven continents. More than half of that. Continue reading
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Has The Definition Of A Favorite Artist Changed?
Subcribe to the Upward Spiral podcast in iTunes, play recent shows on SoundCloud, or follow us on Twitter. In this episode of the Upward Spiral, a music business podcast, we. Continue reading
8 Steps To A Million YouTube Music Channel Views
By Matt Sandler, musician and founder of Chromatik. I get at least a dozen emails a month from musician friends who want to build out their YouTube presence. I don’t. Continue reading
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A lot has been written over the last few days since Zoe Keating released the latest in her series of personal digital music revenue reports which includes data from iTunes, Bandcamp,. Continue reading
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Brian Shafton, owner of RBC Records, has been deeply involved with both hip hop artist and label marketing and distribution. Both running a label and supporting artist-owned indie labels gives. Continue reading
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Let's be honest, there are a literally thousands of ways to promote your music these days. Whether it's building a Twitter following, a Facebook dynasty, linking in with LinkedIn, air. Continue reading