Music industry
The Music Industry Has 99 Problems. And They Are…
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- Wednesday, 02 March 2016
1. The value of the music recording is plunging, and has been for more than a decade. Across the board, artists are experiencing serious problems monetizing their audio release.
Tidal sued for $5m over alleged copyright infringement
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- Wednesday, 02 March 2016
TIDAL failed to serve appropriate Notices Of Intent to obtain a licence to 148 musical recordings on its service from the plaintiffs – drawn from 118 copyrighted compositions.
Which Artists Are Still Holding Out on Streaming?
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- Wednesday, 02 March 2016
Pop stars, rock legends, and even entire record labels have said no to streaming their music.
Afrique: Lancement de Musikbi, premier site de téléchargement légal de musique via sms
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- Wednesday, 02 March 2016
Musikbi est un projet qui veut assister les artistes face aux problèmes qui touchent à la piraterie et à la diffusion des œuvres d'artistes africains.
New music on vinyl: everybody loves it, but it doesn’t make much sense
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- Wednesday, 02 March 2016
The vinyl resurgence should be great for new music, right? After all, who buys records in 2015? Nerds. Curious, acquisitive types.
The Music Industry Needs Better
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- Tuesday, 23 February 2016
Floating in Friday’s news dump jetsam was the announcement that Bandpage has been sold to YouTube. Nothing about this is particularly remarkable. A service for artists started. They took millions of dollars in venture money. They sold to a tech giant.
This company thinks it can turn music pirates into paying customers
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- Tuesday, 23 February 2016
The music business has traditionally taken a hard-line approach to online music pirates. Once upon a time, of course, it sued them directly – but that didn’t work out too well for anyone.
Streaming killing the music business? UMG just posted its biggest revenues in a decade
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- Tuesday, 23 February 2016
Not content with becoming streaming’s first billion dollar record company, Universal Music Group posted its biggest annual revenues in a decade last year.
Will Streaming Music Kill Songwriting?
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- Tuesday, 23 February 2016
“We were emerging from this bubble,” she told me, “and I realized, ‘I have this hit. This is going to be good! Nearly three million streams on Spotify!’ And then my check came, and it was for seventeen dollars and seventy-two cents.
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