Can The Billboard Charts Be Valid Without Including YouTube?
Determining the position of a song or album on the Billboard charts used to be so easy when it was based strictly on sales, but not anymore. Those days are now long gone as music is consumed on a dizzying array of platforms with sales playing less and less of a factor. To its credit, […]
Continue readingThe Recording Academy’s Government Relations Officer Daryl Friedman On My Latest Inner Circle Podcast
My guest today is Daryl Friedman, who’s the chief government and member relations officer for the Recording Academy. Daryl joined the Recording Academy in 1997 and established the organization’s Washington, D.C., office, where he created The Academy’s GRAMMYs on the Hill initiatives. . There are some major copyright and royalty issues facing artists and songwriters […]
Continue readingWarner Music Owner Takes Control Of Deezer
Even though Deezer has been available in North America for well over a year, not that many consumers are familiar with the streaming service. In France, where the service is based, Deezer is Spotify’s main competition with almost 50% of the market share. Now comes word that financier Len Blavatnk’s Access Industries has taken control […]
Continue readingShow.co Releases Pre-Save Me Tool To Encourage Fans To Pre-Save Upcoming Releases
One of the things that has vexed artists and labels in the digital age is how to excite a fanbase before a song or album is released. Sure, you can promote it, but our digital attention span is pretty limited so any pre-release promotion can fall by the wayside before the release actually happens. Show.co, […]
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Let’s Improve The Press Section Of Your Website
It’s amazing that so many brands (which includes artists and bands as well as companies) don’t have a proper “Press” section on their website that contains all the information that a journalist or blogger might need when writing a story. I speak from personal experience as a writer in that I’m always surprised with what I can’t find […]
Continue readingRIAA Goes After A Long List Of Music Piracy Sites
Music piracy isn’t what it once was, but it’s still alive and well and the RIAA is trying to do something about it. In a  to Elizabeth Kendall, the acting assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Innovation and Intellectual Property, the industry organization outlined a number of “notorious” platforms that it claims infringes on its member’s IP. These are […]
Continue readingTV Composer Rich Tozzoli On My Latest Inner Circle Podcast
My guest on my latest podcast is television composer and author Rich Tozzoli. Rich has written an incredible 16,000 music cues that have been used on more than 10,000 cue sheets on 714 television series! Rich is not only a great composer but he’s also a talented engineer as well, and the author of several […]
Continue readingAvenged Sevenfold Lawsuit Could Change Label Contracts Forever
It doesn’t matter whether you know who Avenged Sevenfold is or not, the Huntington Beach, CA metal band is attempting something pretty rare in the music business that could end up changing how record label contracts are forever written. The band is challenging what’s known as the “7 year rule” that labels have employed in […]
Continue readingThe Best Selling Artists Of All Time
Back in the days of physical sales, the actual number of albums sold was as big deal as they are today with streams and views. The problem was that you could never get an exact count of how many were really sold, so there were always a lot of numbers thrown around that sounded good […]
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10 Sales Tips For Artists And Bands
When it comes right down to it, we’re all selling something. Every day, we’re selling our products, services, brand and our personal selves over and over again. As an artist or band, you have to be aware that sales are a big part of your equation for success. Here are 10 sales tips from my […]
Continue readingWarner Music Does A Deal With Mixcloud
Mixcloud has announced that it has entered into a licensing agreement with Warner Music Group, and is said to also be pursuing similar deals with both Universal and Sony Music as well. The company is known as a platform for podcasts, DJ sets and radio shows that include celebrity music artists, DJs and publications like Tiesto, Moby, Erykah […]
Continue readingComposer/Arranger Dennis Dreith On My Latest Inner Circle Podcast
My guest today is composer/arranger Dennis Dreith, who started in the business playing sax for The Beach Boys but soon turned to composing and orchestrating for commercials, television and motion pictures. Along the way Dennis wrote the scores for cartoons for Hanna Barbara, television movies of the week like Columbo, and motion pictures like A […]
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For Radio To Live It Must Embrace Technology
When it comes to the health of terrestrial radio in the United States these days, there’s a lot of conflicting data. On the one hand we find that radio is still listened to with great frequency in the car and at work, and that it’s still a driving force for new music discovery. On the […]
Continue readingMicrosoft Dumps Groove Music For Spotify
You’re probably not aware that Microsoft has its own streaming service called Groove Music, and that’s exactly why the company is now dumping the platform in favor of Spotify instead. The company plans to stop selling subscriptions soon and will completely phase out the service by the end of the year, which probably won’t break […]
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For Online Success, Remember The Theory of 22
Last week I discussed in a post about how social media is really only word-of-mouth. That’s important to remember because word-of-mouth is really the most important kind of advertising available to us, but it has both on a positive and negative side. That brings us to something outlined in my Social Media Promotion For Musicians […]
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