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Songwriters Getting A 44% Boost In Pay From Streaming

CRB songwriters

While payouts averaging $0.005 to $0.007 to artists from streaming seems pretty minimal, it’s even worse for songwriters, who generally only see about a tenth of that revenue. That’s why the recent ruling by the Copyright Royalty Board’s (CRB) that awards songwriters a 44% increase is so important. While still just a fraction of what […]

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January 30, 2018

Vydia CEO Roy LaManna Is The Guest On My Latest Inner Circle Podcast

Roy LaManna

This week’s podcast features Roy LaManna, who is the founder and CEO of Vydia, a music video technology platform that allows artists to distribute to network partners like MTV, Fuse, BET, and Nickelodeon, and publish their videos platforms like Vevo, YouTube, Daily Motion, and Facebook. The platform also helps artists to monetize their videos, while […]

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January 29, 2018

Legendary Producer Quincy Jones Wants To Create Music Stock Index Fund

Quincy Jones

One way to invest in the stock market reasonably safely is by investing in an index fund, which is a type of mutual fund with a portfolio constructed to match or track a market index, such as the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index (S&P 500). Advantages of an index fund include broad market exposure combined with very low operating expenses, so it becomes sort of […]

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January 26, 2018

YouTube To Assign ISNI ID Numbers To Creators

isni logo

YouTube has decided to begin assigning ID numbers to creators using the International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI) initiative, which may be enough to other distributors to begin adopting the system as well. The platform will share ISNIs with its label and publishing partners in an effort to promote the standard. ISNI is the ISO-certified global standard number […]

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January 25, 2018

5 Tips For A Killer Artist Website Design

website design

Thanks to online website builders like WordPress, Wix, Weebly and Squarespace, it’s now incredibly fast and easy for an artist or band to set up a website. That said, just because it’s easy to do doesn’t mean that what you’ll come up with will be visually appealing. Since so much of website engagement is built around how the site looks […]

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Does Your Email Newsletter Meet These 5 Legal Requirements?

Newsletter

You may not know it, but there are a number of things that are legally required in every email newsletter blast that you send out. While some email services automatically address these, it’s still important to know what they are and why they’re enforced in the first place. After all, you don’t want your email […]

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January 16, 2018

Candy Shop Management Founders On My Latest Inner Circle Podcast

Candy Shop Management

My guests on the podcast this week are artist managers John Mathiason and Anthony Bland, who collectively have over 50 years of music industry experience. Since starting Candy Shop Management in 2009, they have navigated the careers of The Rocketboys, The Mowgli’s, Lincoln Durham, and many others. Antony came from the label and publishing world […]

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Is The MP3 Era Coming To An End?

MP3 era

Reports are that Apple is moving up its timetable for killing the MP3 download from its iTunes Store to later this year. Originally the company was planning on next year for end-of-life, but have accelerated the schedule thanks to quickly declining sales and the unprecedented growth of music streaming. There has been no official announcement […]

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