Sony Now Ignoring Unrecouped Balances For Heritage Songwriters

Recently Sony Music launched its “Artists Forward” initiative that that ignored any unrecouped balances for acts that were signed to the company before 2000 and have not had an advance since. The move garnered widespread applause across the industry, and now it announced it will extend the program to heritage songwriters as well. The new […]

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.Music Domains Finally Look Like A Reality

If you’ve ever tried to register a domain you know that it can be a frustrating experience. Unless you grabbed your preferred name back way when websites were just taking off, chances are that the name you want is already taken. That leaves you to either using a modified domain name (bobbyowsinskilive.com instead of bobbyowsinski.com, […]

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Don’t Look Now But TikTok Is Catching Up To YouTube In Many Ways

When it comes to streaming video, YouTube has always been the king of the hill. With more than 2 billion users logging in every month, it’s number 1 for music consumption for multiple generations. While TikTok used to be the up and comer, it’s now catching up to YouTube in ways that surprise even veterans […]

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What People Actually Listen To In 2021

If you were to just read what the media writes you would think that all people listen to all day is a streaming service like Spotify, or podcasts, or whatever else that’s hot in the audio world at the moment. One of the reasons why is that until recently, none of the ratings agencies like […]

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The Dance Music Industry Took A Big Hit From The Pandemic

As you’ve probably experienced, the pandemic did not treat every music genre equally. While many thrived as a result of the lockdown, the dance music industry took a huge hit in revenue. The total global revenue was cut in half, which means that the industry is now at the same point it was 10 years […]

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Vinyl Demand Is Through The Roof, But So Is The Industry Crisis

It’s no longer a surprise when you read a headline or article about vinyl sales hitting a new recent high. Despite what any of the predictions might have said, the round pieces of plastic still keep selling. More and more people can’t wait to get their hands on any version that’s out there, even if […]

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Spotify’s Latest Fan Study Shows That Vinyl Is The Merch That Each Genre Loves Best

Spotify new Fan Study covers a wide range of data that any artist, band, label or manager will find useful. That said, it also brings up a number of surprising points that seem somewhat counterintuitive for the world we live in today, but are certainly worth checking out. A big one is all about the merch that […]

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PR Maven Ariel Hyatt, Film Score Trends, And Guitar Environmental Issues On My Latest Podcast

Music PR specialist Ariel Hyatt’s CyberPR agency just celebrated 25 years in business. Ariel and her company specialize in digital media campaigns for the music industry. She has spoken in 12 countries to over 100,000 creative entrepreneurs and is the author of five bestselling books on social media, marketing, and crowdfunding including Cyber PR for […]

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You’ll Be Surprised At Which Communication Activities People Feel Are Most Important

There are so many ways to communicate these days. Social, radio, television, CDs, streaming, telephone, and direct messaging are just a few. All told there are actually 25 modern communication activities that we’re exposed to every day. But which ones do we consider important? And which ones do we pay the most attention to? That’s […]

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TikTok Radio Could Mean A Chance At A Wider Audience For New Artists

Artists are constantly looking for new ways to break out and increasingly that’s coming from TikTok. The platform makes it easier than most in that all you need is a short clip rather than a long video, and it’s also very active in promoting creators that begin to gain some traction. That ability is now […]

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Music Video Production May Be A Thing Of The Past With AI-Generated Videos From Rotor Videos

Music video production can be a tedious and expensive task, and one that many artists consider a necessary evil. For some artists, the fun is in making music not in trying to translate it to picture. That task could be a thing of the past thanks to artificial intelligence and the AI-generated videos from companies […]

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If You Post A Lot To YouTube, You’ll Like These Upcoming New Creator Features

One thing that YouTube does well is listen to its users. Sometimes it takes them a while to respond, but they usually will add a feature or two that everyone really wants. If YouTube is one of your main social media tools, then you’re really going to like these new upcoming Creator features that will […]

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The New Era Of High-Fidelity Music Finally Begins With Apple Spatial Audio

If you’ve read this blog for any length of time, you know that I’ve been predicting Apple would release its long-awaited high-fidelity music tier any time now. Of course, I’ve been predicting this for the past 5+ years, but with today’s announcement of the launch of its Spatial Audio service that prediction will finally come […]

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No Wonder Indie Artists Can’t Get Traction – Distrokid Uploads A Million Tracks A Month

Indie artists are getting more and more depressed about the fact that the competition is so fierce that it’s difficult for their music to get any traction. This fact was brought home again recently when online distributor Distrokid revealed its upload numbers at around a million tracks per month, which shows just how much competition […]

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The Top 10 YouTube Video Presenter Greeting

If you’re shooting anything other than music video then you’re probably going to want to greet your audience in some way. YouTube did a study to find what was the most popular presenter greeting and came up with the top 10. This came from a data set of over 1 million videos with a minimum […]

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