Today, Friday September 20th, is Band Shirt Day. This single day global fundraising initiative brings artists together to sell merchandise on their official sales channels and donate a percentage of proceeds to the charitable organizations of their choice.

From The Beatles to Queen and Earth Wind & Fire to NWA, bands – who mostly wrote their own songs -dominated music. But that started to change sometime in late 1990’s and 2000’s.

It’s harder than ever to turn a profit on tour. Price tickets to high and fans (and potential fans) stay away. Price them too low and you lose much needed income.

MUSIC BUSINESS NEWS: BMI has filed an action in Federal rate court to determine fees for a license with SiriusXM.  After years of negotiations, SiriusXM is attempting to lower its payments to. Continue reading

Where music is discovered matters. Focus on music trigger cities can supercharge music marketing, according to a study from Chartmetric.

The Music Licensing Collective (MLC) has announced five executive promotions designed to strengthen outreach, education, member services and operations and support continued growth.

Streaming accounted for 84% of the revenue that U.S. labels and artists receive from recorded music. Total revenue from U.S. recorded music was $8.67 billion based on RIAA stats for the first half of 2024.

Thank you iMusician for naming Hypebot on one of the Best Music blogs in 2024

Today, Tuesday, September 10th is the last day for musicians, labels and music related companies to register a .MUSIC domain free.