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Universal Music Group (UMG) and Havas just announced a joint venture they are calling the "Global Music Data Alliance". This initiative is intended to “utilize data to better understand the correlation among artists, music fans, and brands,” with...
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It’s New Years Eve, and I’m in a bit of a reflective mood. When I think back on this year, I realize that the question I get asked the most — both...
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Forbes recently published both parts one and two of a two-part series profiling Music Audience Exchange and our TuneLaunch platform.
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A couple weeks back I wrote a piece here explaining why Payola Laws distort the market in the music industry ensuring that independent artists are...
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I’ve written at some length about the difficulties surrounding getting your music played on radio. The bottom line is that unless you’re an artist...
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The laws and regulations our politicians and governmental agencies put into place can distort markets and restrict our options as consumers. Lately...
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The recent firestorm of controversy over Taylor Swift’s decision to pull her catalogue from Spotify (the ramifications of this covered nicely by...
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This article in Music Times that expands upon a study from Next Big Sound stating that 90.7 percent of “music artists are complete unknowns” pisses...
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This article from The Motley Fool (“Why the Music Industry Desperately Needs Apple”) provides a pretty limited, loose definition of “the industry” -...
