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7 Ways To Actually Enjoy Putting Out Your Album

While an important component of most artists' musical career, releasing an album can be arduous and time consuming process, and with the wrong attitude it can become fairly miserable fairly. Continue reading

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Prince Gets His Own Official Shade Of Purple

The Prince Estate and Pantone, the global arbiter of color, have announced the creation of a standardized custom color to represent and honor the music icom Unsurprisingly its a purple. Continue reading

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Tags: Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, Academy Awards, Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, Black Lives Matter, Bowling for Columbine, Broadway theatre, Business Insider, Castro Camera, United States

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Should Musicians Even Bother Making Albums Since Almost No One Is Buying Them?

Like it or not, we live in a singles driven music industry. A recent half-year report from Nielsen revealed that album consumption has taken a dramatic hit over the past. Continue reading

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Tags: California, Drake (musician), Ed Sheeran, Harry Styles, Inglewood, Jay-Z, Justin Bieber, Kendrick Lamar, MTV, MTV Video Music Award, The Weeknd

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Music Marketing Using Instant Gratification Tracks vs Complete My Album [Michael Brandvold, Jay Gilbert]

Music Biz Weekly co-hosts and marketing experts Michael Brandvold and Jay Gilbert discuss the difference between an "Instant Gratification Track" and "Complete My Album, and learn why you should always. Continue reading

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A Simple Guide To Promoting Your Music On YouTube

As one of the most accessible content platforms on the web, being able to effectively promote their material on the site had become essential for artists. Here we look at. Continue reading

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Tags: Alphabet Inc., Application programming interface, Archive, Arcus cloud, Armstrong Flight Research Center, Facebook, Film promotion, Twitter, Urban area, YouTube

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Former NY Times Exec Tristan Boutros Joins ASCAP Digital Team As Chief Technology Officer

ASCAP has named former New York Times digital executive Tristan Boutros as Chief Technology Officer. Tristan will be based in New York and report to EVP and COO Brian Roberts.

Bruce Houghton on 08/14/2017 in Uncategorized | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: A Lively Mind, Adam Bain, Amazon Web Services, Amazon.com, Business Insider, Chief executive officer, Chief financial officer, Facebook, Microsoft, Vice president

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Deadline To Enter Music For Next Year’s Grammy Awards Nears

A reminder that the new online access to submit music for the 60th Grammy Awards opened last week. If you haven't entered your music yet, do it soon – that. Continue reading

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Tags: 5th Avenue Theatre, Asia, Asleep at the Wheel, Associated Press, Augmented reality, Austin, Baby (Justin Bieber song), Beijing, Grammy Award, Justin Bieber, Texas

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Warner/Chappell Launches Copyright Claim Over YouTube Video Deliberately Featuring None Of Its Music

Taking proactive takedowns to soaring new heights, Warner/Chappell recently issued a copyright claim over a doctored Star Wars clip containing precisely none of J. Williams' music – the absence of. Continue reading

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Tags: Business Insider, College football, GoFundMe, Kickoff specialist, List of YouTubers, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Placekicker, Subscription business model, Tubefilter, YouTube

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“Annabelle: Creation” Tops North American Weekend Box Office, “Wolf Warrior” Tops Global

Warner Brother's "Annabelle: Creation" $35 million in North American theaters over the weekend, providing a little hope for an otherwise sleepy August box office in North America. A sequel to 2014's. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 08/14/2017 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: box office, Christopher Nolan, ComScore, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Dunkirk, Harry Styles, List of Universal Pictures films, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Warner Bros., World War II

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MON. BRIEF: SoundCloud Saved, But For How Long? • MTV Goes Old School • Social Data Is Driving A&R • More

Monday 8.14.17 Music Biz News From Around The Web SoundCloud has been saved for now, but we've heard nothing about a plan to make it profitable. Updated continuously under our More. Continue reading

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This Week In Music Commentary

This week, commentators from inside the industry weighed in on the music businesses Orwellian parallels, Def Leppard claims piracy is garnering them more fans, and David Lowery questions if the. Continue reading

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