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How do you define success in the music industry? For most musicians, a successful career could be defined as signing a recording contract or being hired to perform as the main act at a concert. Sadly, many wonderful musicians will never...
Tags: Ty Cohen, Music Business, music biz center, Music Industry, music consulting, Musicians Resources, Music Books, All You Need to Know about the music business
Most music fans can probably be forgiven, at this point, for being doubting Thomases at the alleged demise of the major-label music industry. After all, wasn't last year supposed to be the final hurrah for any kind of box-set bonanza?
Tags: music fan, Boston, Reissue, Music publishing, Music industry, Audio engineering, Remaster, Entertainment Culture, Albums
With innovations sprouting all over the web to make music distribution simpler and more user-friendly, the music industry is gradually coming to terms with the realities of the internet age...One is a new alliance between record companies and MySpace...
Tags: music industry, record companies, Los Angeles, Web 2.0, ITunes Store, Community websites, Technology Internet, Online social networking, Entertainment Culture, MySpace, Record label, Online music stores
Peter Mandelson's Digital Economy Bill, that will grant him powers to change copyright law at will, and to kick people off the internet based on accusations (not convictions) of file sharing. However, it appears that at least some record labels are realizing...
Tags: recordings labels, BPI, Digital Economy Bill, IFPI, ifpi committee, San Francisco, International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, British Phonographic Industry, Music industry, Peter Mandelson, Copyright infringement
Bob Lefsetz points to another report of a royalty statement of an unrecouped artist (and former major label exec), David Bach, who notes with some surprise that on his last royalty statement from Warner Music, the amount the band owed had gone up . In...
Tags: Warner Music, royalty statement, San Francisco, Music industry, Unsecured loan, Contract law, Warner Music Group, Warner Bros., Royalties, Recording contract, Entertainment Culture, Intellectual property law
A year of tragic deaths, amusing scandals and a series of increasingly senile looking attempts by the music industry to cling onto its outdated business model — that was 2009. The year was characterized by a fragile facade of continuity, while changes...
Tags: Japan, music industry, Yasushi Akimoto, Noriko Sakai, Karuizawa, Music of Japan, Johnny's Entertainment, Rock music, J-pop, Japanese music, Entertainment Culture, Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, SMAP, Electropop
With big record companies willingly bucking technology, musicians and software types gathered in Cambridge to revolutionize the industry. December 2, 2009 On an unheralded fall weekend right before Thanksgiving, a roomful of amateur hackers and Web rock...
Tags: Boston, Web 2.0, Napster, Music industry, Technology Internet, Entertainment Culture, Hack Day, Peer-to-peer, File sharing networks, Record label
Record labels must face the music Instead of trying to criminalise its customers, the music industry should be looking at innovative ways to make filesharing work Of the many shortcomings of the digital economy bill , one of the most egregious is the...
Tags: internet audio, music industry, recorded labels, United Kingdom, London, Audio storage, The Beatles, File sharing, Business Finance, Music, Technology Internet, Gramophone record, Entertainment Culture, Disc jockey, Record label
There have certainly been a large number of lawsuits from artists claiming that this rather opaque accounting system is used to hide money from musicians, with various multi-platinum selling musicians claiming they never saw a dime of royalties from their...
Tags: San Francisco, Too Much Joy, Music industry, Warner Music Group, Prince, Warner Bros., Royalties, Entertainment Culture, Bain Capital, Record label
Record geeks rarely need a reason to feel smug, but vinyl hoarders worldwide had reassuring news the other week as Nielsen SoundScan released figures predicting that total sales of proper, old-fashioned albums will top 2.8m by the end of 2009.
Tags: vinyl sales, records sales, United Kingdom, London, Reissue, LP album, 1, Music publishing, Music industry, Concept albums, Gramophone record, Entertainment Culture, Albums