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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 Harvard Business Review) is a classic red herring. Ms. Swift sitting at the center of the streaming...
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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” -...
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I’m digging the article from the INgrooves newsletter that was re-blogged by the always great Hypebot (and linked to below). There are some good...
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Look, there’s a really simple answer to the question: “Why isn’t my [music, art, app, etc.] more popular/widely known?” There are many wrong answers...
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It used to be that radio stations dominated the airwaves. Because payola laws prevent record labels from paying radio stations directly, promoters...
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Our good friend and advisor, George Howard, recently penned an article in the New York Times about the rise in music festivals as an economic...
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For a pioneering young company, it’s a warm fuzzy when a respected publication (covering what’s now and what’s next in social & business tech) posts...
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When we sourced artists to partner with Tito’s Handmade Vodka and Chevy for two respective cross-channel music promotions, we focused on a few...
