Music Marketing

A Look At Joan Jett’s D.I.Y. Career

When rocker Joan Jett began her solo career she was turned down by every major record label at a time when there were two dozen of them.  So long before. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 01/03/2007 in Music Marketing | Permalink | Comments (0)
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YouTube Misses Content Filter Deadline. Will Labels React?

YouTube had promised a new content filtering system in place by the end of the year, but failed to meet the deadline without comment. Particularly effected is WMG who made. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 01/03/2007 in Music Marketing | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Carly Simon On QVC. Smart Marketing Or Career Suicide?

First her ex-husband James Taylor had a Gold selling CD via the Hallmark stores. Now Carly Simon is making her debut on shopping channel QVC this Friday, January 5 at. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 01/03/2007 in Music Marketing | Permalink | Comments (1)
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More 2007 Music Industry Predictions

In addition to Hypebot’s own 2007 Music Industry predictions, we found some others willing to gaze into their own crystal balls with some interesting results: Bob Lefsetz’s predictions include: EMI. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 01/02/2007 in Indie Music | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Can Elvis Win A New Generation Of Fans Without Scuffing His Blue Suede Shoes?

"I can’t try to sell somebody Elvis who doesn’t know who he is … that he’s not just some guy who’s been gone for 30 years," Paul Jankowski, chief of. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 12/30/2006 in Music Marketing | Permalink | Comments (2)
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Wolfgang’s Vault Bites Back Calling Lawsuit Baseless

Last Monday The Grateful Dead, Led Zeppelin, The Doors and Santana filed a complaint in federal court in San Francisco against web site Wolfgang’s Vault to stop it from offering. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 12/26/2006 in Music Marketing | Permalink | Comments (2)
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Measuring The Growth And Direction Of Music 2.0 2006-2007

As 2006 closes, two new reports give an interesting look inside the changing shape of the new music industry dubbed by many Music 2.0. Despite declining CD sales, music is. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 12/22/2006 in Indie Music | Permalink | Comments (6)
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TV Network Revives CBS Records

CBS TV is reviving the legendary CBS Records moniker to name a new lightly staffed and largely digital record label designed to take full advantage of the network’s marketing clout. . Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 12/15/2006 in Music Marketing | Permalink | Comments (0)
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This Week’s UK indietore.com Picks

The B-Dolls "Ordinary"‘Think,’ it says of Melbourne’s B-Dolls, ‘Y2K Carpenters reprogrammed by disco robots’. And it sort of is. Think warm electro pop that makes all the right noises in. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 12/12/2006 in Music Marketing | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Music 2.0 Marketer Skyline Innovations Launches

Hypebot’s parent company Skyline Music, a national booking agency with an eclectic roster of artists including Roger McGuinn, the subdudes, Solomon Burke, Victor Wooten, George Winston and Hot Buttered Rum,. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 12/06/2006 in Music Marketing | Permalink | Comments (0)
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