Spotify Escalates Its Battle With Apple Music With A New Samsung Agreement
Spotify and Apple Music have been locked in a back and forth battle for the hearts and minds of the music streaming business that increases in tempo a bit more seemingly every day. Until now, Apple has had the upper hand strategically over Spotify in that its music streaming division was just another reason to […]
Continue readingWarner Music Group Sells It’s Spotify Stock And Gives 25% Back To Its Artists
Warner Music Group recently sold all of its stake in Spotify for $504 million, and everyone expected that money to go right to the company’s bottom line and bypass its artists. That’s not the case though as Warners announced that it would allocate 25% of that income back to artists. Sounds like good news, right? […]
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7 Ideas To Attract More People To Your Merch Table
Selling merch is essential to artists and bands today, maybe more so than ever. The problem is that not only does it take a lot of thought and effort to come up with the appropriate products, but the same amount of thought and effort is needed when it comes to selling them as well. Here […]
Continue readingComposer Lyle Workman On My Latest Inner Circle Podcast
Lyle Workman has a long history as a guitar player and songwriter, first as a member of Bourgeois Tagg, and then with Todd Rundgren, Beck and Sting as well as tons of sessions. These days he’s thriving as a film and television composer with movies like Superbad, The 40 Year Old Virgin and Bad Santa 2, and television shows […]
Continue readingIntroducing The Music Business Advice Book
I’m pleased to announce the release of my latest book, The Music Business Advice Book: 150 Immediately Useful Tips From The Pros. The book is a compilation of 150 helpful quotes from 130 top music pros from various segments of the music industry who previously shared these tips on my Inner Circle Podcast over the course of almost […]
Continue readingBillboard’s All-Time Top 100 Songs Brings More Shock Than Surprise
In honor of the 60th anniversary of Billboard’s Hot 100 chart, the company issued its all-time top 100 songs cultivated from #1 hits over the last 6 decades. The chart was created by 3 Billboard staffers with the help of producer Mark Ronson and hit songwriter Diane Warren. It’s easy to be surprised with some […]
Continue readingSpotify Releases Playlist Pitching Feature
Everyone knows that the key to streaming success today is getting placement on a key playlist, especially on Spotify. While this might have been easier to accomplish a few years ago, it’s now become increasingly more difficult, thanks to the fact that playlist curators are overloaded with submissions. This has even to a new type […]
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The 10 Rules Of Personal Networking
Regardless of how much talent you may have, unless someone hears about what you’re doing you’ll end up creating in your bedroom your whole life. One of the keys to getting ahead for many of us is by networking. While this comes easy and natural for some, others find it unbelievably difficult, but you might […]
Continue readingHere’s Proof That The Album Is Almost Dead
Since the 70s it’s been a dream of musicians to release an album. A deal with a major label and subsequent best-selling album release was the epitome of what we all worked for. Today the album is fast becoming a relic of the past and you need look no further than Drake’s Scorpion album as […]
Continue reading9 Things About Releasing Vinyl, Audio Over Ethernet Overview, And Wall Street Piano Man Niko Kotoulas on My Latest Podcast
Niko Kotoulas had a high-paying dream job as an financial analyst at Morgan Stanley, but he’s leaving it for an even better dream as a musical artist. Totally through social media, Niko’s piano playing has racked up more than 1.2 million streams a month from more than 300k users on Spotify alone, and he’s been […]
Continue readingWill Billboard Have A New Chart Rival Soon?
Ever since the first Billboard music chart was created back in 1940, the music industry has relied on the publication as a measure of success. Much of this was for bragging rights between labels, but also as a way to provide retail with sales data (and a large dose of hype) to determine what records […]
Continue readingThe Trend Is Towards Cashless Festivals, And That’s A Good Thing
The cashless society that was predicted many years ago is pretty much here, as fewer people resort to using cash in daily transactions. Using a credit or debit card sure beats carrying around a pocket full of bills and coins and having to worry about exact change in inopportune situations. Even festivals are now turning […]
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4 Tips For Using Instagram Stories To Promote Your Music
Instagram is becoming the go-to social platform for music these days and the service keeps on getting hotter. One of its main features is Stories, and its sometimes both misunderstood and underutilized when it comes to promoting your brand and music. Stories can be powerful in this regard, however, when used with a little thought. […]
Continue readingDrake Has Generated Over $100 Million From Streaming So Far
Who says that streaming doesn’t pay? Yes, it only pays a fraction of a cent per stream, but those fractions really add up, especially when streams are in the billions for an artist like Drake. You may recall that Drake smashed all the streaming records on both Spotify and Apple Music recently during the release […]
Continue readingRadio Formats, MI Stats, And Dave Derr, The Father Of The Distressor, On My Latest Podcast
The Distressor is one of the few modern pieces of outboard gear that has become a classic and now stands in the same “must have” league as compressors like the 1176 and LA-2A. Simply put, it’s a standard piece found in studios everywhere today. Dave Derr is the creator of the Distressor, Fatso, and other […]
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