Category Archives for "Music Industry News"
March 21, 2019
Taking Your Music Brand To The Next Level With Brand Positioning
One of the most important processes for an artist, band, engineer, producer or record label to undertake is discovering their brand, which I’ve covered extensively in previous posts. Once that process is complete there’s another step however, and it may be the most critical one of all for success – brand positioning. Brand positioning can […]
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March 20, 2019
Surf Guitar Legend Bob Berryhill, Social Media Usage, And Skip Rate On My Latest Inner Circle Podcast
My guest on the podcast today is surf rock legend Bob Berryhill. Bob is a founding member of The Surfaris, and every guitar player since 1963 has learned to play the band’s big hit “Wipeout” sometime early in their career. The song, which Bob recorded when he was 15, sold over a million copies and rose to […]
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March 19, 2019
Spotify Rails Against Apple’s “App Tax,” But Could It Be A Cover For A Price Increase?
Spotify is unhappy with the 30% revenue sharing royalty that Apple charges developers to be part of its App Store, and has gone as far as to file an anti-trust complaint with the European Commission against the company. The so-called “tax” is nothing new however, and one has to wonder why this is just coming […]
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March 14, 2019
Help Decide The Future Of This Blog
I hope that you enjoy reading this blog and I certainly enjoy bringing it to you. That said, I’ve been writing the Music 3.0 Blog for almost 10 years now and it currently consists of almost 3,000 posts. I think it’s time to change things up a bit, but I want you to be happy […]
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March 13, 2019
The Black Box Income That Artists And Songwriters Don’t Know About
One of the pieces of advice that artists and songwriters hear pretty constantly from indie vets is to get your metadata in order. The reason why is that in order to get paid, organizations that collect the money have to know who you are and how to get hold of you first. That’s why collection […]
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March 12, 2019
Composer Doug DeAngelis, RIAA Numbers, And USB 3.2 On My Latest Inner Circle Podcast
Composer, producer and music supervisor Doug DeAngelis is my guest on the podcast today. Doug hit paydirt early in his career when he recorded the Nine Inch Nails hit “Head Like A Hole.” In 1989, he embarked on a world tour with the Detroit Techno crossover dance artist Inner City, but after that he moved on […]
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March 11, 2019
Streaming Services Fight Back Against New Songwriter Royalty Increases
The recent Copyright Royalty Board ruling that increased songwriter’s royalties by 44% was met with great satisfaction by both writers and publishers alike. The streaming services are not so happy though, as Spotify, Google, Pandora and Amazon have all teamed up to appeal the decision. While each organization filed a separate appeal, Apple Music has […]
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March 8, 2019
You Might Not Be Ready For It, But K-Pop Looks Like It’s Here To Stay
A few years ago it seemed inconceivable that Korean Pop music, known as K-Pop, would ever break in the U.S. Many had tried but most seemed to fizzle, but that all changed this year with boy band BTS having not one but two Billboard 200 #1 albums in the last year, and 6 other acts […]
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March 6, 2019
Pandora Launches Its Own Version Of Stories
You have to hand it to Pandora – the company is still trying new things to differentiate itself from the competition. The latest feature is its version of Stories, a new format which marries music tracks to podcasts in a single playlist. Artists can use the feature as well by making a playlist of their […]
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March 5, 2019
Radio Royalties, MI Business Health, And CD Baby’s Heli Del Moral On My Latest Podcast
My guest on the podcast today is CD Baby’s VP of international development, Heli Del Moral. Before coming to the company Heli worked in television as international director of marketing for ESPN and Univision where he won 3 Emmy awards, and numerous Telly, Promax and other honors for his creative efforts. In the interview we talked about the strength […]
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March 4, 2019
India Is A Prize For Spotify, But This Week Shows It Won’t Be Easily Won
Over the last week Spotify has been in the news again regarding its contentious entry into the Indian market as publisher Warner/Chappell Music (WCM) tried its best to block the launch. This has turned what would have been almost a back-burner story into front page business news, but many don’t understand the significance for all […]
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March 1, 2019
Artists Rejecting Record Deals More And More
If you speak with record executives, they’ll tell you privately that one of their biggest concerns is the fact that many artists are no longer interested in signing a recording contract. Thanks to the current DIY nature of the business and the fact that labels are more and more only considering “finished products,” artists no […]
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February 27, 2019
Pledge Music Leaves More Artists Unpaid
Recently I posted about a group called Fastball having a difficult time collecting from the crowdfunding site Pledge Music. There appears to be many more that fall into that category as artists from Queensryche to Blacktop Mojo have since posted apologies on their social media pages because of Pledge Music-related payment and delivery issues. Variety […]
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February 26, 2019
Amphion’s Anssi Hyvonen, Facebook’s Lasso, And Modern Recording’s Start On My Latest Inner Circle Podcast
Amphion loudspeakers have become a favorite of award-winning mixing engineers the world over, and founder and CEO Anssi Hyvonen is my guest on the podcast today. Anssi spent most of his life as a hi-fi enthusiast, but he got into building speakers sort of by accident. His speakers are very well respected by that community, but acceptance […]
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February 25, 2019
Streaming Revenue Is Impressive, But Will It Ever Make Up For Physical Product Losses?
The 3 major record labels are all reveling in their good fortune, as streaming numbers and revenue are way up over the previous year. Indeed, Music Business Worldwide (MBW) estimates that it’s up more than $1.5 billion for the majors just from streaming. That may be all well and good, but physical product is still […]
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