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September 18, 2018
All About Music Metadata With Veva Sound’s Drew Waters On My Latest Podcast
If you’ve ever wondered why musical metadata is so important you’re about to find out in this excellent conversation with this week’s podcast guest. Drew Waters has gone from high school dropout to PhD all in the name of music. Starting out as a working electric bass player as a teenager, he switched to upright […]
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May 23, 2018
Why Record Labels Hate Free Streaming Tiers So Much
If you were to poll record label execs off-the-record on which music streaming service they like the most in a strictly business-sense, chances are that Apple Music would end up as the clear winner. Why? Apple has steadfastly refused to institute a free ad-driven tier. Even though labels, artists, songwriters and publishers realize revenue from […]
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March 27, 2018
Music Licensing Guru Joyce Kettering On My Latest Inner Circle Podcast
My guest on the podcast this week is Joyce Kettering, a composer who became so successful licensing her music that she did the thing that so many dream about – she was able to quit a very good day job as a financial auditor and just dedicate herself to music. What makes this story even […]
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October 18, 2017
RIAA Goes After A Long List Of Music Piracy Sites
Music piracy isn’t what it once was, but it’s still alive and well and the RIAA is trying to do something about it. In a  to Elizabeth Kendall, the acting assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Innovation and Intellectual Property, the industry organization outlined a number of “notorious” platforms that it claims infringes on its member’s IP. These are […]
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October 13, 2017
The Best Selling Artists Of All Time
Back in the days of physical sales, the actual number of albums sold was as big deal as they are today with streams and views. The problem was that you could never get an exact count of how many were really sold, so there were always a lot of numbers thrown around that sounded good […]
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April 3, 2017
Happy Days – US Music Growth The Most In 20 Years
In record label executive offices across the U.S. there’s rejoicing as the latest RIAA numbers show a double digit increase in revenue for the first time in almost 20 years. The latest figures show that the recorded music market in 2016 brought in $7.7 billion, up a bit more 11% over the previous year. And […]
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