To Keep The Flow Of Vinyl Going, Metallica Buys Their Own Pressing Plant

We just got word that for the first time in decades vinyl outsold CDs, which is a sign that the vinyl boom will continue. That said, there are some artists that sell a lot more of it than others, like Metallica for instance. In fact, the band sells so much that it just purchased its […]

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Study Shows Your Song Must Prove Itself Within 5 Seconds

Today audiences have notoriously short attention spans, but no one thought it could be this short. New York University researchers looked at why people love and hate different songs and found that they typically know if they like a song within a 5 brief seconds of listening. The researchers picked 250 songs from all different […]

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How Apple Music Classical May Actually Influence The Pop Artist Royalty Model

The majority of people in the music business feel that the current royalty model used by Spotify and most other music streamers is broken, yet the user-centric model that tries to fix it hasn’t been much better, at least not yet. Believe it or not, the real agent of change in pop royalties might come […]

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Yep, There’s Scientific Evidence That We Stop Finding New Music As We Age

If you’re past the age of 30, then you’ve probably noticed that you’re a lot less curious about new music than you used to be. And that will happen more and more as you age! We now not only have scientific evidence that this phenomena happens, but now we also know why. Taste Lock It […]

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Google’s AI Can Now Reveal Hidden Samples

The sound of modern music is based on samples. Many times they’re legitimately licensed, credited or purchased, but there’s still a lot that are used without permission. This is easily accomplished by shifting the pitch or using the many modulators and saturation plugins that are available to make the sound virtually unrecognizable from its original […]

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You Should Believe It That TikTok Restrictions Are Coming Soon

While TikTok is the red hot social platform today, it’s looking more and more that general use may be restricted or even banned before the platform runs through its popularity cycle. Following the U.S., other countries around the world are mandating that the app be deleted from all government devices because of heightened security concerns, […]

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Breaking Down Global Music Consumption

Way back in the day there used to be only 2 ways you listened to music, either by radio or vinyl record. Slowly that expanded to cassette, CD, then television (like MTV when it first started). Today there are 9 ways that we consume music on a regular basis, according to the IFPI. Indeed, global […]

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The Audio Listening Habits Of Each Age Group

Each generation is different and that’s abundantly obvious in a multitude of ways. The differences really jump out at you when it comes to audio listening habits though, as shown by MusicWatch. The company broke down these habits into 8 “audio clusters” that really crystalize the sweet spots for demographics that go beyond just age. […]

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The Top 10 Highest Paid Entertainers In The World

Forbes compiled its annual list of the top 10 highest paid entertainers worldwide, and while the list covers the entire entertainment community, it’s interesting to see the musical artists that made it. All told, these 10 made over $1.3 billion dollars combined last year. That’s not much comfort if you’re a musician, songwriter or artist […]

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8 Don’ts For Good Social Media Health

If you’re too attached to social media (it doesn’t matter which platform) it will destroy your mental health and that’s a fact. Fortunately it’s fairly easy to remain a sane user if you follow some common sense rules and manage to restrain yourself when necessary. Here are 8 Don’ts on social media compiled by social […]

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Van Halen Author Steve Rosen, Cassettes Making A Comeback, And A New Manufacturing Home For Audio Gear On My Latest Podcast

On my latest podcast episode: Listen to it the at BobbyOInnerCircle.com, or on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Stitcher, Mixcloud, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Deezer, TunIn Radio, and RadioPublic. Enjoy the show!

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I Bet You Can’t Guess What The Top U.S. Streaming Music Service Is

When it comes to a streaming music service, everyone knows that Spotify has the most paid users, but does it have the most users? Surprisingly no, not by a long shot. When it comes to both combined paid and free music consumers in the U.S., YouTube comes out on top by a wide margin, as […]

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The Different Strategies For Search vs. Social (Hint: They’re Opposite)

It doesn’t matter if you’re an artist, band, songwriter or a musician, you need (and probably already have) an online presence. And it has to be strong. If not, it can be the difference between staying busy with gigs or sitting home practicing, or having your new video go viral versus sitting on YouTube gather […]

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TikTok “Heating” Shows That Its Videos Aren’t As Viral As They Seem

One of the things that TikTok users like most about the platform is that the video views were thought to be hard to game, especially by influencers and record labels. Although no one knew much about how the TikTok algorithm worked, it did seem to be somewhat democratized. Unfortunately, a new report from Forbes says […]

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Yes, Music Piracy Is Still Here (But In Another Form)

Way back in the old music download days music piracy ran rampant and the music industry freaked out as a result. This caused a lot of irrational moves, the most egregious being lawsuits against its own customers. Once streaming came along the business released a sigh of relief because those big bad pirates were finally […]

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