Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart recently asked me to appear on a special edition of their Your Morning Coffee podcast to speak about Ai in music production and marketing. If you’re not familiar with their podcast, it’s one of the best around on the business of music, and they ask super-insightful questions. Please join me […]
Continue readingEvery musician, artist, band, songwriter, and creator should have at least a basic grasp of copyright since the more you know, the more likely you’ll be able to protect and be paid for your creative work. In my latest book, The Musician’s Ai Handbook, I covered the confusing world of Ai copyright (which I’ll cover […]
Continue readingHappy New Year everyone! Let’s have a safe, happy and prosperous 2024 together. As always, I’m very grateful and thankful for your continued support!
Continue readingIt might be worth it to start mixing in Dolby Atmos if most of your streams are coming from Apple Music. The music streaming giant will reportedly soon offer royalty incentives to artists and labels who submit mixes in the popular immersive format. According to Bloomberg, Apple Music will give additional weighting to songs that […]
Continue readingIt’s been an eventful year in the music industry and that’s what we’ll review in the latest episode of my Inner Circle Podcast. We’ll look at: Listen to it at BobbyOInnerCircle.com, or on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Mixcloud, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Deezer, TunIn Radio, and RadioPublic. I hope you’ve had a great 2023 and I look forward to us both having a […]
Continue readingHave a very merry Christmas and a wonderful Holiday. Eat, drink and be merry, but stay safe so we can enjoy the upcoming new year together. Thank You! I am grateful, thankful and humbled by your continued support.
Continue readingSongwriters today have it a lot tougher than previously, thanks to streaming. While artists aren’t making a whole lot per stream, songwriters only make about 20% of that, and chances are it’s split with a publisher. Now a number of small labels have pledged to offer songwriter points, or a royalty derived from the master […]
Continue readingCan you believe that it’s Episode #500 of my Podcast? To celebrate I have my very first guest from Episode 1, engineer Dennis Moody. Dennis is one of the few engineers who’s as comfortable in a recording studio as he is in a live concert setting. Likewise, he’s just as comfortable mixing a rock, R&B, […]
Continue readingMusic streaming platforms, especially Spotify and Deezer, are in an uproar over France’s proposal for a new music streaming tax. This could be a precursor for other countries trying the same thing, but it could also backfire on French government as well. The proposal calls for a 1.75% tax on music streaming, which doesn’t sound […]
Continue readingIf you read just the headlines of posts and news stories, you sometimes get a false sense of reality, so when real research is presented, it’s often at odds of the facts that we think we know. One of those facts is the general perception that teens spend most of their time on TikTok. That’s […]
Continue readingOn 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 readingWe all know that a holiday hit can be the gift that keeps on giving, but it’s hard enough to have a hit during the rest of the year let alone on a major holiday. That said, there’s always a lot of speculation just how much one of these big holiday hits brings in. Well, […]
Continue readingLike many social platforms, TikTok provides a lot of year-end information that if nothing else, shows you what trended during the year. One of the best categories of these trends were the top top songs on TikTok during the year. It’s broken out for both the United States and Global. See how many songs you […]
Continue readingThe latest episode of my Inner Circle Podcast features Bosco Kante, who’s a Grammy award-winning artist, producer, creator of the world’s first Tubeless talk box, and co-founder of ElectroSpit. Bosco has performed on albums by Kanye West and Dua Lipa, and wrote the theme to the TV show “In Living Color.” During the interview we […]
Continue readingIn 2022 vinyl records surpassed CD sales for the first time in 30 years, showing the remarkable new life for a format that was given up for dead at one point. Vinyl sales continue to grow and have become a major revenue source for artists and labels alike, but new changes to how the sales […]
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