Over the past week, music industry insiders weighed in on the “work hard, playlist hard” mentality musicians should cultivate, why songwriters deserve more compensation, the reason middle-class musicians need niche, not scale, and more.
- ‘Work hard, playlist hard’ says Chartmetric’s Mike Warner
- Smart artists are live-streaming their album launches
- ‘Songwriters are the lowest paid person in the economic equation’ and Merck Mercuriadis is bankrolling a Guild to fight back
- Middle-class musicians need niche, not scale [Mark Mulligan]
- Where’s my money?’ songwriters, publishers ask MLC
