• Why Music And Tech Can Never Be Separated
    Saturday, April 20, 2019 from hypebot
    In 2019, music and technology have become more linked together than ever, with new tech advancement now part and parcel of every aspect of the music industry. In this piece, Patrick McGuire explores the historical context for this, and...
  • 17 Accessible and Affordable Music Marketing Tips
    Saturday, April 20, 2019 from hypebot
    Music marketing changed almost entirely in the last decade, and while variety of new tools and techniques are now available to artists, many of them require a significant investment. Here we look at seventeen different marketing tips...
  • Music Think Tank Weekly Recap: Songwriting • UK Festival • The Business Of Sync, Music Supervision • More
    Saturday, April 20, 2019 from hypebot
    This week on MusicThinkTank, contributors shared articles on some unconventional tips for writing music, how the UK festival scene has evolved over time, what goes on behind the scenes of sync and music supervision, and more! Shaun...
  • Amazon, YouTube Just Launched Free Music Services But Neither Is A 'Spotify Killer'
    Saturday, April 20, 2019 from hypebot
    Amazon and YouTube each just launched free music streamers. Like Spotify's free tier, both offer free ad-supported music. But despite the media hype, their goals are very different than Spotify. Spotify's free tier offers on demand...
  • Getting It Done: The Week In D.I.Y. and Indie Music
    Saturday, April 20, 2019 from hypebot
    We have a plethora of tips for independent and DIY artists this week, as we offer advice on accessible and affordable marketing, provide a comprehensive look at effective social media marketing, look at some key resources for promoting...
  • REWIND: The New Music Industry’s Week In Review
    Saturday, April 20, 2019 from hypebot
    In this flip back through the past week's music industry news, we revisit the play gap in men's vs. women's performance on the charts, Spotify's impressive showing over other streamers when it comes to installs, how Billie Eilish and her...
  • TOP POSTS: This Week's Most Read Posts
    Saturday, April 20, 2019 from hypebot
    This week readers went wild over Festify, Amazon launched a free ad supported music service, Live Nation Urban announced a series of events designed to empower female creatives, we got to peak inside Billy Eilish's bedroom and so much...
  • FRI. BRIEF: Amazon, YouTube Launch Free Music Streamers • Youth Abandon Radio • TikTok India Ban • More
    Friday, April 19, 2019 from hypebot
    FRIDAY 4.19.19 Music Business News From Around The Web Updated continuously under the More News tab
  • Amazon Launches Free Ad Supported Music Service
    Friday, April 19, 2019 from hypebot
    Amazon Music customers in the U.S. who do not have a Prime membership or subscription to Amazon Music Unlimited can now listen to a free ad-supported selection of top playlists and stations for free with Amazon Music on compatible...
  • Breaking Down The Gender Play Gap: Men vs Women’s Performance On Music Charts
    Friday, April 19, 2019 from hypebot
    While a recent Billboard headline proclaiming wome...
  • Spotify Passes 500 Million Installs, Far More Than Other Streamers
    Friday, April 19, 2019 from hypebot
    The Spotify app has passed 500 million installs on Android. In its last quarterly report, Spotify reported 207 million monthly active users, so the 500 million stat includes people who are no longer using the app and reflect how Google...
  • Universal Music Group Partners With Podcaster Wondery
    Friday, April 19, 2019 from hypebot
    Universal Music Group announced it is expanding its presence in the world of podcasting via a new partnership with indie podcast publisher Wondery. Under the terms of the deal, podcasts produced by Wondery will have access to UMG’s...
  • BBC Music Launches In US
    Friday, April 19, 2019 from hypebot
    BBC Music has launched in the US, bringing its in-depth music journalism to a stateside audience. US produced content will be featured alongside the BBC's deep catalog and extensive coverage of global festivals, music news and more. It...
  • SoundExchange Payments Up 16.2% In Q1 2019
    Friday, April 19, 2019 from hypebot
    SoundExchange distributed $220.7 million in payments to more than 185,000 payees in the first quarter of 2019. This represents a 16.2% increase in distributions and 17.3% increase in payees over the first quarter of 2018. In 2018,...
  • Lewis Capaldi arena tour pledges help for fans with anxiety
    Thursday, April 18, 2019 from Music industry | The Guardian
    Mental health charity Mind welcomes chart-topping star’s scheme to provide support workers, gig buddies and an ‘escape room’ The musician Lewis Capaldi has announced that he is to provide provisions for fans at risk of anxiety and panic...
  • No, Spotify has not made music bland | Dan Hancox
    Sunday, April 14, 2019 from Music industry | The Guardian
    The lists of what music we’re streaming show many karaoke classics – but also plenty of fresh, witty pop The age of “digital disruption” means bumpy rides for us all. The announcement at the very end of last year that HMV was going into...
  • Convergence In Music Industry as Managers Become Labels, Distributors Become Marketers and More
    Thursday, April 11, 2019 from hypebot
    In this piece, Jake Udell reflects on the how music companies are increasingly converging to become the same thing as they try to wear a growing number of hats in an effort to remain relevant in a rapidly changing industry....
  • Band together: why musicians must strike a collective chord to survive | Mat Dryhurst
    Tuesday, April 9, 2019 from Music industry | The Guardian
    Red Bull Music Academy is closing, alternative culture outlets are retrenching – and big tech prefers pop. Experimental musicians need to stick together Just weeks after musicians and fans protested the BBC’s decision to marginalise...
  • Trevor Key: photography’s best-kept secret
    Sunday, April 7, 2019 from Music industry | The Guardian
    From the Sex Pistols to Tubular Bells, this photographer-cum-designer collaborated on some of music’s greatest cover art Few can match Trevor Key ’s visual contribution to pop culture across three decades. And yet in the relentless...
  • Commercial radio should play at least 25% Australian music, inquiry told
    Wednesday, April 3, 2019 from Music industry | The Guardian
    Parliamentary report calls for boost to Australian music quotas during peak times as well as simpler rules around local content Commercial radio stations should play a minimum of 25% Australian music during peak times, a new government...
  • Global music revenues grow at fastest rate in more than two decades
    Tuesday, April 2, 2019 from Music industry | The Guardian
    Sales of CDs continue to fall as fans turn to Spotify, Apple Music and Amazon Music Global music revenues grew at the fastest rate in more than two decades last year, as the streaming revolution more than made up for the plummeting...
  • Copyright directive will protect creatives | Letter
    Monday, April 1, 2019 from Music industry | The Guardian
    Carole Tongue says our story about MEPs approving sweeping changes to copyright law should have focused more on creative workers I was most surprised that your newspaper carried a story about copyright ( Controversial copyright laws...
  • Dear Robert Smith – spare a thought for us poor interviewers | Penny Anderson
    Monday, April 1, 2019 from Music industry | The Guardian
    The interview process is seldom sparkling, but we do what we can with occasionally fatigued, arrogant or tedious musicians My how we laughed at Robert Smith’s reaction when the Cure were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame....
  • 'Another nail in the coffin': UK music venues face 125% jump in royalty fees
    Friday, March 22, 2019 from Music industry | The Guardian
    Hospitality industry claims increase from 4p to 9p per person per hour will ‘wring the last life out of’ clubs, bars, cafes and hotels Phonographic Performance, a British music industry body that collects royalty payments for musicians,...
  • Musicians like me need to fight against the giants of YouTube and Google | Debbie Harry
    Friday, March 22, 2019 from Music industry | The Guardian
    A new EU copyright directive would fix a fundamental flaw and protect artists from being ripped off • Debbie Harry is the lead singer of Blondie In 2016, I joined a campaign with the music community and other creative sectors to fight to...
  • Streaming accounts for more than half UK record label income
    Wednesday, March 20, 2019 from Music industry | The Guardian
    Revenue from Spotify, Amazon and Apple rises as CD sales continue to fall Music streaming services generated more than half of the income earned by record labels in the UK last year, as CD sales continue to plummet. Subscription...
  • 'I don't see how the tour is tenable': the fans boycotting Ryan Adams
    Thursday, February 28, 2019 from Music industry | The Guardian
    The musician is under criminal investigation for his conduct, yet has made no moves to cancel his UK tour - leaving angry fans with tickets they can’t sell, or even return ‘I won’t go whether I sell them or not,” says Richard Moore, who...
  • Teddy Pendergrass: If You Don't Know Me review – soul star stories
    Friday, February 22, 2019 from Music industry | The Guardian
    This documentary celebrates the singer’s remarkable return to the stage after a car accident but fails to illuminate the darker corners of the world he lived in You would need a heart of stone to hear the late soul singer Teddy...
  • Chasing rainbows: inside the battle between Radiohead and EMI's Guy Hands
    Monday, February 18, 2019 from Music industry | The Guardian
    A new book details the saga of private equity company Terra Firma acquiring EMI in August 2007 for £4.2bn. This extract details the battle over Radiohead’s seventh album On Sunday 30 September 2007, just hours before the calendar flipped...
  • The Final Days of EMI: Selling the Pig by Eamonn Forde – review
    Sunday, February 10, 2019 from Music industry | The Guardian
    A lively, unsparing account of Terra Firma’s takeover of EMI and the music giant’s subsequent collapse tells us much about modern-day Britain If the dismemberment of Britain’s biggest music company in 2011 was a cultural tragedy, then...
  • HMV reveals which 27 stores have closed after sale to Canadian music boss
    Tuesday, February 5, 2019 from Music industry | The Guardian
    Oxford Street flagship shut but 100 of chain’s 127 stores will survive under new owner • Doug Putman: the vinyl fan aiming to put a new spin on HMV HMV has been rescued from collapse by a Canadian music entrepreneur, but 27 stores in...
  • The Final Days of EMI review – from Beatles glory to Coldplay toothbrushes
    Saturday, January 26, 2019 from Music industry | The Guardian
    Eamonn Forde’s account of the fall of the music company, whose acts included the Sex Pistols and Rolling Stones, is full of comedy and tragedy In the summer of 1965, the Rolling Stones released “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”. On the US...
  • New Dubreq Stylophone GEN R-8 with touch keyboard is an evolved portable pro analog synth
    Wednesday, January 16, 2019 from Music Industry Newswire
    NEWS: The new for 2019 Stylophone GEN R-8 is a dual VCO British made boutique synthesizer with a fully analog signal path and a touch keyboard that you can play with your finger. The GEN R-8 also works as a MIDI controller keyboard (with...
  • New Strymon Volante Magnetic Echo Machine effects pedal recreates musicality of tape delay systems
    Wednesday, January 16, 2019 from Music Industry Newswire
    NEWS: New Strymon Volante Magnetic Echo Machine effects pedal features magnetic drum, tape, and (reel-to-reel) studio echo as a stereo multi-head delay that also offers a looper and vintage reverb. Situated at the center of Volante’s...
  • New G-Sonique TECHNOL HN1 is a plug-in multi-instrument created for techno, minimal and industrial music producers
    Wednesday, January 16, 2019 from Music Industry Newswire
    NEWS: The new for 2019 G-Sonique TECHNOL HN1 plug-in multi-instrument was created for TECHNO / MINIMAL / INDUSTRIAL music producers, but can be used in other music styles (Electro, Progressive, Industrial, Illegal Tekno, Minimal....
  • Classical music streaming is up. Good news, but there's plenty more to win
    Tuesday, January 15, 2019 from Music industry | The Guardian
    BPI statistics reveal a rise in streams of classical tracks that is outpacing the rest of the sector. The industry needs to continue to embrace its democratic and digital future Back in 1998, I helped to set up one of the first classical...
  • A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie tops US album chart with record low of 823 sales
    Tuesday, January 15, 2019 from Music industry | The Guardian
    New York rapper’s online-only album Hoodie SZN reaches No 1 spot mainly from 83m streams as digital downloads continue to plummet New York rapper A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie has topped the US album chart with sales of just 823 digital copies,...
  • Dave Laing obituary
    Monday, January 14, 2019 from Music industry | The Guardian
    Music writer, rock correspondent and academic who understood and communicated the cultural worth of pop In the early 1970s, a new kind of writing about popular music began to appear in Britain, alongside the music-industry journals and...
  • Argosy Console Acquires Nashville-based Sound Construction and Supply
    Friday, January 11, 2019 from Music Industry Newswire
    NEWS: ARGOSY announced this week (Jan. 10) its acquisition of all assets of Sound Construction and Supply, Inc., a Nashville based manufacturer of furniture for recording studios. This acquisition will help to enhance and expand Argosy’s...
  • Policy Priorities for 2019
    Tuesday, January 8, 2019 from FutureBlog
    296-1214825968haFC.jpg Wide Happy New Year! FMC ’s preparing to launch a new, mobile-optimized website with a focus on making it easy for musicians and fans to take action. While we’re working to get that up and running, here’s a...
  • UVI releases PX V8, its newest Prototype Series instrument, inspired by analog Voyetra 8 Synthesizer
    Thursday, December 6, 2018 from Music Industry Newswire
    SYNTH NEWS: UVI has announced the latest in their Prototype Series, PX V8. Examining a rare 8-voice analog polyphonic synth, the Voyetra 8, PX V8 presents a rich and charactered analog instrument thanks to its unique voice cards, real...
  • Haken Audio ContinuuMini MPE Electronic Music Instrument Fully Funded First Day on Kickstarter
    Saturday, November 24, 2018 from Music Industry Newswire
    SYNTH NEWS: The all-new Haken Audio ContinuuMini electronic music instrument, first previewed at the 2018 ContinuuCon event, launched this week on Kickstarter, and was fully funded its first day. The ContinuuMini has been designed to be...
  • Patch Base 3 and Yamaha TG33 Synth Editor Launched by Coffeeshopped
    Saturday, November 24, 2018 from Music Industry Newswire
    SYNTH NEWS: The Coffeeshopped Patch Base synth editor for iPad/iOS was recently updated to an all-new version, with new interface and subscription model pricing. Additionally, Patch Base 3 now offers an editor/librarian for the Yamaha...
  • UVI Announces ‘Walker’ FX Footstep Foley Design Audio Toolkit Plugin
    Monday, November 5, 2018 from Music Industry Newswire
    NEWS: UVI has released "Walker," a comprehensive and flexible footstep foley designer for film, games and post production, offering a customizable engine including 6 shoe types, 14 ground surfaces with adjustable texture layers, 8...
  • Music Veterans John Doe and Exene Cervenka, John Densmore Salute Beyond Baroque’s 50th in L.A.
    Monday, November 5, 2018 from Music Industry Newswire
    MUSIC MAKERS: A historic lineup of L.A.'s leading artists, performers, poets and authors will salute Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center ('Beyond Baroque'), the city's legendary literary center, at its 50th anniversary "Bohemian...
  • UVI releases PLATE – a custom-shop electro-mechanical reverb plug-in with fully-configurable design
    Thursday, October 18, 2018 from Music Industry Newswire
    MUSIC PLUG-IN NEWS: UVI's all-new 'Plate' plug-in a custom-shop electro-mechanical reverb with fully-configurable design. A realtime physically-modeled simulation, Plate allows you to control each aspect of the design including metal...
  • Darren Pfeffer Nominated To Musicians On Call National Board Of Directors
    Monday, March 19, 2018 from Mi2N.com [Music Industry News Network] ... Business News
    Darren Pfeffer, Executive Vice President Of MSG Live, Recently Joined The National Board Of Directors For Musicians On Call. The Board Also Recently Elected The Next Slate Of Officers.
  • Audionamix's Audio Source Separation Solutions On Display At Musikmesse 2018
    Monday, March 19, 2018 from Mi2N.com [Music Industry News Network] ... Business News
    XTRAX STEMS Software Now Compatible With Native Instruments' Stems File Format
  • Hybrid Studios Introduces New Headphone System
    Monday, March 19, 2018 from Mi2N.com [Music Industry News Network] ... Business News
    OC Studio Integrates Digital Audio Labs LiveMix System Into Studio A
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    Monday, March 19, 2018 from Mi2N.com [Music Industry News Network] ... Business News
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