How Data is Redefining A&R’s Role In The Modern Music Industry
Although A&Rs are still looking for the same qualities in an artist as they were fifty years ago, what they’re looking for in that same artist’s data – and they. Continue reading
Bandcamp Sales Up 122% As CEO Offers Rare Look Inside The ‘Anti-Spotify’
In that last 30, days sales at indie music hub Bandcamp are up 122% year-over-year, according CEO Ethan Diamond who shared a rare look inside what the LA Times dubbed. Continue reading
How To Improve Your Live Streaming Audio: An Artist’s Guide
For the time being, live streaming is the dominate form of live performance, and while performing out of your own home can be convenient in a lot of ways, it. Continue reading
Students Create Quarantine Marketing Battle 2020
With the prospect of a 2020 summer internship in the music industry disintegrating before her, one forward thinking music business student decided to create a quarantine marketing battle, where students. Continue reading
Bandzoogle Adds Live Stream Video Integrations
Bandzoogle has added new integrated options for live streams and videos, as part of an ongoing effort to help artists replace income lost during the pandemic from touring. Bandzoogle now. Continue reading
YouTube Shorts Launches In Effort To Compete With TikTok
Although hugely popular with an important demographic, TikTok has been having a somewhat tumultuous time with the United States government of late and YouTube – smelling blood in the water. Continue reading
SXSW 2021 Goes Online, Showcases To Feature Artists Scheduled For 2020
SXSW has announced that it will be a largely online event in 2021. “The challenge of building a new future is one that we’re excited to tackle,” Roland Swenson, CEO. Continue reading
New Joint Venture Controls Billboard, Rolling Stone, Variety, Music Business Worldwide, Vibe, Hollywood Reporter, More
Consolidation in the music and music trade publishing reached a new level Wednesday with the announcment of two new joint ventures formed by Penske Media Corporation and MRC. The first. Continue reading
WED. BRIEF: SXSW 2021 Online • Capitol Promotes Osborne • Mint Talent Opens • More
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Serious Musicians Still Need To Make Albums: Here’s Why
As music consumption habits change, and listeners eschew traditional albums in favor of playlists comprising individual songs, many in the industry may be considering gravitating away from the traditional full-length. Continue reading
