A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words: Abandon Text, Go Visual To Drive Traffic
Scott Perry, in his excellent free newsletter and site New Music Tipsheet, advises using more picture posts to drive traffic to your band's site and Facebook page: "I know studies. Continue reading
Karmin & 2CELLOS: Using Cover Songs To Find Fame And Fortune
Playing cover songs is an odd phenomenon that's often considered a crowd-pleasing yet uncreative approach to music. Yet occasionally, we see examples of cover songs done in such a unique. Continue reading
TuneCore Explains Major Price Hike, CD Baby Responds With Discount
Popular digital distributor TuneCore recently raised prices from $19.99 a year per album distributed to $49.99 per year. While many users still find TuneCore a bargain, the reaction from others. Continue reading
Echo Nest Compares It’s Playlist Engine To iTunes Genius, Google Instant Mix
Listeners often prefer to have their music playlists created for them. Doing it yourself is just too time consuming. They also lead to new music discovery; so much effort has. Continue reading
Lady Gaga Hits 10M Twitter Followers plus 10 Must See Twitter Stats
Saturday night, Lady Gaga became the first celebrity or brand to reach 10 million Twitter followers, according to Famecount. "10MillionMonsters! I'm speechless, we did it! Its an illness how I. Continue reading
News Brief: Sony Net Back, Spotify Gets Gaga, Music Investment, LimeWire Upside, NBA Music & More
After 26 days, the PlayStation Network and Sony Music Unlimited are back up in the U.S. and will be soon in Asia. Blogger and Twitter also both had brief outages. Continue reading
MTT Weekly Recap: Self-Released Albums, Elliott Smith, Recording, Music in the Cloud, MTT Community Manager
Where The Music Industry Thinks Out Loud Musician Wages: An Introduction to the Self-Released Album Padma Gillen: Thank you Elliott Smith Travis Whitmore: Recording: Getting it Right at the Source . Continue reading
REWIND: The Music Industry’s Week In Review
Limewire settled with the RIAA and labels for $105M, but it appears artists won't see a dime. WMG Sale Update – A shareholder filed a lawsuit to block the sale. Continue reading
Co-Founder & Former CEO Chris DeWolfe Hints At Buying Back MySpace
"I'd love to work with Myspace again," concludes a wide ranging BusinessWeek interview withMySpace co-founder and former CEO Chis DeWolfe. But will the current CEO of gaming company MindJolt actually. Continue reading
A Look At Creation Of Amazing Danger Mouse, Jack White, Norah Jones HTML5 Video
(UPDATED) "3 Dreams of Black" is Chris Milk's new interactive film, created in WebGL with Google for Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi's ROME, featuring Jack White & Norah Jones. The. Continue reading
