These Are The Challenges That Professional Music Creators Worry About Most

Last week I wrote about a new study that actually quantified how difficult it is to make it in the music business, and this post is an extension of that. The entertainment research company MIDiA did an extensive study on the state of the music business today, and outlined a number of common challenges that […]

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Scoring Mixer Jason LaRocca, Vinyl Record Backlog, And Hit Songs That Almost Didn’t Make The Album On My Latest Podcast

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

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Now We Know Exactly How Difficult It Is To Make It In The Music Business

It’s always been difficult to make it as an artist or band in the music industry. You can go all the way back to the 1950s and it’s almost always a one in a million chance that an artist would break through. Even as the democratization of music creation has developed in the 2000s, it’s […]

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This Study Says That TikTok Isn’t As Popular As Everybody Thinks

We’ve all been led to believe that video sharing site TikTok is Gen Z’s social platform of choice, and every other generation is also falling in line. A new study by Pew Research has found that those assumptions are just that – assumptions, and they’re wrong. According to the study, more Americans ages 18 to […]

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Wayne Kramer – In Memoriam Replay Podcast Episode

This week’s podcast episode is dedicated to the memory of legendary guitarist, singer, songwriter, producer and film and television composer Wayne Kramer, who passed away recently.  Wayne was far more influential than many realize as his band MC5 basically invented punk rock a full decade before it even emerged as a genre. The band and […]

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Can Mngrs.Ai Be Your Music Manager?

For artists, bands, engineers, and producers, the hardest team member to find is a manager. It’s critical to find someone who will look out for your business interests, yet a good music manager is most likely really busy already. That means that a he or she probably will not be interested in you until you […]

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Universal Music Gets Tough With TikTok

The major record labels have been grousing about the meager royalties that TikTok pays for some time, but now Universal Music has decided to do something about it. The label is pulling its entire catalog from the service after the two companies couldn’t reach an agreement that ended in January. TikTok decided not only to […]

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Winter NAMM 2024 Hits And Misses On My Latest Podcast

On my latest podcast episode I take a big overview of the recent Winter NAMM 2024. Among the things discussed include: This is a short but to the point episode that will give you something to think about if you were there, and show you why your FOMO was unnecessary if you weren’t. Listen to […]

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TikTok Now Testing 30 Minute Videos

There are reports that TikTok is now experimenting with 30 minute videos in a beta version of its app. It shouldn’t come as much of a surprise since the platform has consistently increased its time limit, starting from its original 15 seconds per clip, to 60 seconds, 3 minutes, 5 minutes, then 10 minutes. Last […]

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SymphonyOS CEO Megh Vakharia, Best Months To Release Music, And How Much Producers Make On My Latest Podcast

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

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If One Artist Dominates Vinyl Sales, Does That Still Mean The Industry Is Doing Well?

It seems that every year a new modern-day vinyl sales record is being reported, which is a great sign for a music industry that could use more physical sales. The problem is, if one artist dominates those sales does that really mean that the vinyl industry is doing well? Music industry tracking company Luminate looked […]

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Killphonic CEO Caleb Shreve, An Internet Minute, And Who Invented The Microphone On My Latest Podcast

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

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The Confusing World Of Ai Copyright

A couple of weeks ago we look at some copyright basics, now let’s take it a step further with an excerpt about Ai copyright from my new Musician’s Ai Handbook. “When it comes to the world of Ai copyright, there’s much confusion over who owns what, and this is directly a result of the fact […]

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Sync Expert Chris SD, Global Music Money, And Gear Sales Gloom On My Latest Podcast

On my latest podcast episode: Listen to it at BobbyOInnerCircle.com, or on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Mixcloud, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Deezer, TunIn Radio, and RadioPublic. Enjoy the show! P.S. Click here to save your seat for the free Music Supervisors Panel.

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What If You Gave A Concert And 33 Million People Showed Up?

When the pandemic arrived back in 2020, it hit the music business hard on all levels, but especially touring. It didn’t matter what level you were at as an artist, if you couldn’t gig you weren’t making money. That’s when livestreaming first popped up with great fanfare and hailed as the future of artists performing […]

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