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9 Rules For Success In Today’s Music business
I’ve posted this before but it seems appropriate to pull it out once more, since most young musicians today seem to be floundering in a sea of uncertainty. We’ve gone through a mighty change in the music business over the last decade or so, and it keeps on morphing and evolving every day. Since these […]
Continue readingModern Musician’s Michael Walker, The ELVIS Act, And Best DAWs Of 2024 On My Latest Podcast
On my latest podcast episode: Listen to it at BobbyOInnerCircle.com, or on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Mixcloud, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Deezer, TunIn Radio, and RadioPublic. Enjoy the show!
Continue reading3 Surprising Hit Song Trends That No One Expected
Analytics platform ChartCipher, which focuses on hit songs, recently unveiled three key trends that its measured on Billboard’s Radio Songs charts for the year 2023. All three are surprising in that they bucked the status quo, but that’s something that frequently happens with hit song trends. Let’s take a look at them. Songs Are Slower […]
Continue readingYou’ve Never Heard Of One Of The Most Streamed Artists, And He Wants It That Way
We’ve all heard the stories about fake artists on Spotify and other streaming services, and every time a crackdown occurs some new ones just pop up to take their place. But now there’s evidence that it may be the same composer who’s behind a great many of them. The Swedish Dagens Nyheter (DN) recently ran […]
Continue readingFilm Scoring Mixer Alan Meyerson, Possible TikTok Ban, And The Caesar’s Console On My Latest Podcast
On my latest podcast episode: Listen to it at BobbyOInnerCircle.com, or on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Mixcloud, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Deezer, TunIn Radio, and RadioPublic. Enjoy the show!
Continue readingEngineer/Baker Randall Michael Tobin Pt2, Warners May Buy Tunecore, And Most Popular Synthesizers On My Latest Podcast
On my latest podcast episode: Listen to it at BobbyOInnerCircle.com, or on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Mixcloud, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Deezer, TunIn Radio, and RadioPublic. Enjoy the show!
Continue readingA Proposed Living Wage For Musicians Act Could Raise Streaming Royalties For Artists
If you took a poll of indie musicians, I think the majority of them would say that streaming royalties are way too low. It always seems so unfair that each stream is only earning a small fraction of a penny, yet many superstars have so many streams that they still make some good money, even […]
Continue readingSurprise! There’s No Correlation Between Social Engagement And Content Consumption
One of the things that we’ve all been taught about optimizing our content for social media is that the more social engagement a post garners, the better. While that’s probably true to some extent, a new report from Memo finds that just because readers engage with your content it doesn’t actually mean that they’re consuming […]
Continue readingEngineer/Artisan Baker Randall Michael Tobin, Unusual Release Formats, And Western Tuning And Harmony On My Latest Podcast
On my latest podcast episode: Listen to it at BobbyOInnerCircle.com, or on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Mixcloud, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Deezer, TunIn Radio, and RadioPublic. Enjoy the show!
Continue readingTikTok Providing New Ways For Artists To Make Money
TikTok – love it or hate it, but either way it’s a social force to be reckoned with. While music artists that use the platform hope for viral success, they’re not actually going to make much money from TikTok itself – most comes from users following up on the artist music and merch on other […]
Continue readingMixer Nick Squids Squillante, Social Doesn’t Monetize, And A New Optical Storage Format On My Latest Podcast
On my latest podcast episode: Listen to it at BobbyOInnerCircle.com, or on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Mixcloud, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Deezer, TunIn Radio, and RadioPublic. Enjoy the show!
Continue readingDon’t Look Now, But Music Videos Don’t Matter As Much As They Used To
It used to be that if you didn’t have a happening music video, your song wasn’t going to get any traction anywhere. Although MTV set the standard for label acts and their music videos in the 1980s, YouTube eventually picked up the slack in the 2000s after MTV moved to teen angst dramas. That said, […]
Continue readingCassettes Are Back Again, But In A Big Way In Japan
I’ve written in the past about the imminent revival of the music cassette tape, and a mini-boom seems to come around every 7 to 10 years or so. Well, it’s happening again but this time things might be different, thanks to what’s happening in Japan. It appears that Japanese youth have taken quite a shine […]
Continue readingMoises Ai CEO Geraldo Ramos, How Many Videos On YouTube, And World’s Most Expensive Amp On My Latest Podcast
On my latest podcast episode: Listen to it at BobbyOInnerCircle.com, or on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Mixcloud, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Deezer, TunIn Radio, and RadioPublic. Enjoy the show!
Continue readingThese Are The Challenges That Professional Music Creators Worry About Most
Last week I wrote about a new study that actually quantified how difficult it is to make it in the music business, and this post is an extension of that. The entertainment research company MIDiA did an extensive study on the state of the music business today, and outlined a number of common challenges that […]
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