Life Is Going To Get A Lot Tougher For Composers Soon
If you’re a composer, your lifeblood is the back-end performance royalties you receive when your music is aired on a television show. At one time you could expect a nice up front fee for your services as well, but those days are now mostly in the past. Now thanks to new policies put forth by […]
Continue readingTest Your Music Promotion Knowledge
It’s fairly easy to promote your music these days, but being efficient and getting results require you to do more than take a shotgun approach. The following questions are designed to test how much you know about today’s music promotion. Ready? Let’s begin. 1. The three parts to promotion are: A. communicating, interacting, measuring B. […]
Continue readingRadio Loses Another Battle Over Royalties, Which May Be A Look Into Its Future
Royalty payouts have been tilted in radio’s favor over artists and songwriters for a long time, but the tide may be starting to turn. Recently the US Department of Justice sided with Irving Azoff’s Global Music Rights (GMR) in its lawsuit against the Radio Music Licensing Committee (RMLC) filed in Federal Court in 2016 for antitrust violations. […]
Continue readingVinyl’s Big Sales Week, Dolby’s New Deal, And Industry Writer Ari Herstand On My Latest Podcast
My guest on the podcast this week is Ari Herstand, who parlayed his experiences as an indie artist into a secondary career as a music industry blogger and author. Ari’s music business blog Ari’s Take has been a staple for helping musicians build a career without the help of a record label, and his book How To Make It In The […]
Continue readingThe Upcoming Problems For YouTube Creators
If you depend on YouTube for all of your social interaction and audience outreach, things might get a lot tougher in 2020. There are three things that the service is getting tough on creators that could cause you to lose some sleep soon. Let’s go through them. Accounts Are Being Deleted YouTube announced recently that […]
Continue readingThe Latest Guide To Social Media Posts
Posts on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook are evolving, and what worked last year won’t get you the same engagement now. A new social media content study of over 100 million posts by Planable and Socialinsider discovered what really works today. If you want the highest engagement rate, choose Instagram. The engagement rate per post is […]
Continue readingAn Infographic Guide To Music Licensing
Music licensing can be a confusing morass of legal slings and arrows that most artists and songwriters can’t quite get their arms around. It’s not rocket science, but it’s not easy to navigate either. The following infographic from attorney Joy Butler does a great job at simplifying the process as much as possible. Joy is […]
Continue readingCould AR Be The Music Release Format Of The Future?
Streaming subscription rates seem to be leveling off despite Goldman Sach’s prediction of it bringing in some $40 billion by the end of the next decade. That begs the question as to what comes next. Everyone on the supply side of music, from artists to record labels, would love to see a new music release […]
Continue readingInactive Social Accounts, Plugin Evolution, And Engineer Kevin Killen On My Latest Inner Circle Podcast
My guest on the podcast this week is Kevin Killen, who’s a multi-Grammy award winning engineer who’s worked with luminaries like David Bowie, U2, Peter Gabriel, Yo Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble, Sugarland, Shakira and so many more. Besides engineering and mixing what many consider seminal albums like Peter Gabriel’s So and U2’s Unforgettable Fire, Kevin […]
Continue readingWill Apple Music For Business Bring The Music You Hate To Your Favorite Retailer?
You may or may not be old enough to remember the horrible music that invaded your ears in department stores and office building elevators. In fact, the not-so-respectful term “elevator music” was applied to the syrupy cover versions of popular hits that you’d regularly hear in those places back then. There was some science involved […]
Continue readingBlack Friday Sale On 101 Mixing Tricks
101 Mixing Tricks has become the premier way to learn the techniques of the A-list mixers. It’s hardly ever on sale, but today not only is it discounted, but there’s an extra special discount when you use BLACK as a coupon code during checkout. That’s right – for today only the price isn’t the regular […]
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Happy Thanksgiving And Thanks For Reading!
To all my friends and readers, I wish you a happy holiday. I truly appreciate your support and I am humbled and honored that you take the time out of your busy day to read my musings. It’s a good day to take some time off, eat a nice meal, have a cocktail and watch some […]
Continue readingAmazon Expands Its Free Music Tier To Everyone
Amazon has stepped up its streaming game with a new free music tier that appears to be taking on the likes Spotify. Although the company launched a free version of its music service for Alexa users on its Echo devices in April, this version will be open to users of Amazon’s smartphone app. Distribution has […]
Continue readingBytedance Streaming Service, Archiving On Glass, And Waves Product Manager Yoni Zlotkin On My Inner Circle Podcast
My guest on the podcast this week is Yoni Zlotkin, who turned some ambisonics and binaural college projects into a job as product manager for what has now become Waves NX. He is now also a product manager for Waves revolutionary Abbey Road Studio 3 plugin. During the interview we spoke about the development of Studio 3, the […]
Continue readingSoundCloud Now Lets Your Pay To Promote Your Music (Yes, It’s Advertising)
I guess it was inevitable that this would happen. First Spotify launched a pay-to-promote feature, and now SoundCloud has done it as well with its new Promote tool. Promote allows an artist or record label to pay to boost their tracks to the top of listener feeds and mobile homepages. Basically, it’s paid advertising of […]
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