News Brief: LN Ticket Sales Up, Verizon Sues FCC, Simfy Gets €10M. EMI Profits Rise, Sirius XM & More
During a J.P. Morgan Telecom Conference this morning, Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino said that after a slow April, ticket sales were up 7% year over year in the first. Continue reading
SoundRain, VibeDeck Make Direct To Fan Download Sales Easy & Cheap
There are a myriad of sites, apps and services helping musicians to sell digital downloads direct to their fans. But two new ones offer interesting twists that make it simple. Continue reading
4 New Sites Combine Music With Daily Deals
The runaway success of daily deal sites like Groupon and Living Social, which focus on a wide range of local deals at deep discounts, has spawned a mini-industry of copycats. Continue reading
A Musician’s Minimum Sustainable Scale
This guest post comes from Fava, who blogs as The Cynical Musician. How big must you be to call yourself successful? I have no idea – it all depends on. Continue reading
Slacker Goes After MOG, Rdio, Spotify With New On Demand Music Service
Slacker has added ON demand music, Slacker Premium Radio with 8 million tracks AND competING directly with MOG, Rdio, Rhapsody and if it ever makes it TO the US, Spotify. . Continue reading
Were Major Labels Right To Stay Away From The Cloud … And Should We Too?
David Greenberg, Cyde Smith and I recently shared our thoughts on the launch of cloud music services from Amazon and Google. Today, Robin Davey (@mr_robin_davey), a musician, artist and Head. Continue reading
Tunecore CEO Jeff Price Defends Flat vs. % Music Distribution Fees
When Tunecore raised its yearly flat fee digital distributions rates recently, many users supported the change while a few vowed to leave the service. Yesterday, after competitor CD Baby offered. Continue reading
Ariel Hyatt’s Music Marketing Basics: Newsletters, Products & Polls
Ariel Hyatt, fresh from the ASCAP Expo in Los Angeles, has some music marketing lessons for all artists. As many know, making it in the music industry is very hard.. Continue reading
News Brief: Sony’s Net, Bing’s Social, Spotify Beats Radio, Apple Launch?, SoundScan Rules & More
Sony's Playstation and Music Unlimited Networks finally detail welcome back packages for North America and Europe. (ars) Bing bumps up Facebook options to outsocial Google. (Wired) In Sweden, Spotify More. Continue reading
How Jonathan Coulton Made $500,000 Last Year As A D.I.Y. Musician
(UPDATED) Last year d.y.i. musician Jonathan Coulton grossed about $500,000 from his music career; and because he's a mostly solo artist with low overhead, he got to keep most of. Continue reading
