Music Success: Defining Your Personal Strategy In 4 Steps [Bas Grasmayer]
For artists, the journey to success can be a lengthy and complex one. In this piece Bas Grasmayer outlines how a musician can develop a personal strategy for success in. Continue reading
SoundExchange Payments Rise 29% In Q3, Artists And Labels Paid Jump 45%
SoundExchange payments were up 29.2% last quarter. So while the U.S. digital PRO has taken some big hits lately, mostly thanks to Pandora and other direct licensing deals, this impressive growth. Continue reading
REWIND: The New Music Industry’s Week In Review
In this casual perusal back through a week of music industry news we revisit such topics as Facebook's broken metrics, how social media use varies based on age, Kanye's cancellation. Continue reading
CD Baby Acquires Show.co, Soundrop To Expand Artist Services, Pledges New Distribution Approach That Favors Constant Creation
CD Baby has acquired music marketing platform Show.co and its defunct app Soundrop. The deal continues a trend of established new music industry players including ReverbNation, PledgeMusic, TuneCore acquiring startups to. Continue reading
How Streaming Is Changing The Sound Of Pop Music
As the industry shifts further towards streaming and away from a retail and download based economy, not only is the way in which we consume music changing, but so is the music. Continue reading
Music Industry Seeks To Ban Concert Ticket Buying Bots
Having choice seats snatched out from under them by the ticket bots of a third party ticket broker is an all-to-common occurrence for a lot of ticket buyers, and while. Continue reading
Do Playlists Make It Harder To Break An Artist?
While the rise of "playlist culture" has made song discovery that much easier, it has also made it much more challenging for labels to break new artists, stifling artist development. Continue reading
ASCAP Veteran Jon Bahr Joins CD Baby As VP of Music Publishing and Rights Management
[UPDATED] . Indie distributor CD Baby has been consistently expanding its artist services offerings with publishing and rights management leading the way. Now, their taking those efforts to another level. Continue reading
5 Alternate Ways Of Making Money From Your Music
In an era where CD sales have been replaced with a paltry streaming royalties, artists looking to make a living off of their music career must find other, alternative methods. Continue reading
Emerging Artists Fund Launches Its 2nd Year
Help Musicians UK and PledgeMusic are once again teaming up to offer emerging artists a 75k development fund to help DIY artists with drive work towards their long term career. Continue reading
