5 Excellent Ideas For Promoting Your Music After It’s Released

It’s one thing to have a big promotional campaign for a new release, but after a song or album has been out there for awhile we all tend to forget that there’s still promotion we can do to help it along. Benjamin Groff actually has 50 ideas for doing just that, but I really liked […]

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Amazing Spotify Statistics That Every Artist Should Be Aware of

There are over 100 music streaming platforms around the world, but only 19 that are considered “major.” That said, Spotify is the service that rules them all and there’s a lot of data to prove it. Here are some amazing Spotify statistics that illustrate just how important the platform is to the music industry. Spotify […]

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Live Nation Is Being Sued By The U.S. Government For Being A Bully

Concert promoter Live Nation recently was charged with an anti-trust lawsuit from the U.S. Department Of Justice for having too much influence of the market by not only controlling most major U.S. venues, but also owning Ticketmaster, the service we all love to hate. The government says that the company has grown so large that […]

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Earth, Wind And Fire Lawsuit Shows How A Tribute Band Can Get In Hot Water

Tribute bands are big these days, since so many classic rock bands have stopped touring, their tickets cost too much for the average consumer, or they’re never coming to your town. Name the legacy band and they probably have a tribute band out playing their songs, maybe even better than the original band itself. This […]

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Sony Music Getting Tough With Ai Music Companies

Ai has taken the music world by storm, for better or worse, and even though record labels like the idea of virtual artists that they don’t have to pay, they’re not crazy about Ai music companies using their song catalogs to train on. Sony Music has made a move that some thought was inevitable by […]

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The Music Publishers Are Beside Themselves Over Spotify’s Lyrics And Videos

If you thought music publishers couldn’t get any angrier at Spotify, well, you weren’t paying attention. The National Music Publisher’s Association (NMPA) has just sent a cease and desist letter to the streaming giant alleging that the company is violating copyright by allowing lyrics, videos, and altered songs on the platform. This comes after the […]

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Music Consumers Are Pressing Pause On Paid Music Streaming

It wasn’t that long ago that music industry pundits were saying that the business would prosper as soon as we hit 100 million paid streaming subscriptions worldwide. We’ve soared way past that number and the industry is indeed in a boom period, but that might not last for long, according to a new study. The […]

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Trevor McShane, UMG And TikTok Settle, And Music Gear Retail Changing On My Latest Podcast

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

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You Probably Don’t Listen To AM Radio, But Congress Thinks You Should

While once AM Radio was a broadcast powerhouse that garnered huge number of listeners, today it’s a failing bastion dedicated to sports and talk radio. Even FM, which captured most of AM’s audience, is giving way to streaming, and that has caused auto manufacturers to reconsider the viability of AM Radio in their vehicles. In […]

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My 4 Life Hacks To Help Your Music Life

Most of us work in a studio at home these days, and while walking the 10 steps to work in the morning seems like a dream, there are mental consequences that can occur as a result. Not interacting with people for long periods of time can easily lead to depression, while the many interruptions that […]

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Musical Paralysis Happens A Lot Younger Than You Think

Unless you’re a teenager, you’ve probably noticed that our taste for discovering new music stagnates as we age. Musical paralysis is real, and it disturbs many adults we feel their love for music has decreased as they age. There are a lot of studies that back that feeling up, but sometimes the best data comes […]

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Vinyl Records Are Bad For The Environment, But Evovinyl Is A New Eco-Friendly Option

We as a society made a lot of industrial-strength bad decisions decades ago before anyone was aware that they were going to be bad for the environment. Converting so much of our daily lives to items made and packaged with plastics was one of them, and that includes vinyl records. We’ve fallen in love with […]

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Not Many Artists Release Vinyl Even Though It’s A Hot Product

There so much in the news about how the vinyl records are such a hot product, and how there are more and more vinyl releases every year, but apparently that doesn’t apply to most indie artists. Distribution and label services company Ditto Music found that most artists don’t even bother with vinyl for a new […]

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National Recording Registry Inducts 25 New Recordings That You Probably Know

Every year, the Library of Congress National Recording Registry names 25 recordings as audio treasures worthy of preservation for all time based on their cultural, historical or aesthetic importance in the nation’s recorded sound heritage. This year’s inductees include recordings from ABBA, Green Day, Blondie, Bill Withers, The Chicks, Bobby McFerrin, The Cars, and more. […]

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PR People – This Is What I Hate

As you might imagine, running two popular blogs and a podcast garners a lot of attention from PR people. I get about a dozen pitches a day and most of them I delete straight away. I have to say that at least a few times a day I hit the delete button with an extra […]

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