Photo Credit: Raph_PH / CC by 2.0 Independent music sector on course to grow market share for a fifth consecutive year in the UK — Indie share of the UK music market was 28.6% in the first ten months of 2022, up from 26.9% for 2021 Indie labels’ share of the UK music market was […]
Photo Credit: Vandeerlind / CC by 4.0 3LAU faces a lawsuit from a former collaborator over NFT royalties. It’s a legal area with few precedents, however. A lawsuit has surfaced this week against DJ and producer 3LAU, whose real name is Justin Blau, in a dispute over an NFT auction he staged in early 2021. […]
The popularity of social media platforms and the algorithms that surface your posts can change overnight. But a website will always be yours, and this free webinar presented by Bandsintown and Bandzoogle is designed to help make the most of it. Musician website platform Bandzoogle, Chief Relationship Officer, Dave Cool will teach the essentials of […]
A new report takes a critical look at the disjointed business of sync clearances and identifies some solutions to the challenges facing music users and creators. The music industry celebrated Kate Bush’s Stranger Things placement, and thanks to an explosion in new channels and platforms, synch revenue for recorded music alone was up 29.9% YoY […]
Photo Credit: iHeartMedia Portland How early is too early for some holiday cheer? iHeartMedia Portland’s K103 is already playing 24/7 Christmas tunes starting November 10. iHeartMedia Portland announced that K103 is again Portland’s Christmas Station, as it has been since 2001, providing 24/7 holiday music for listeners in the Portland/Vancouver/Salem area. Even ahead of Thanksgiving, […]
With a reported 100,000 tracks being uploaded to Spotify and other music services. That’s led to streamers each housing 100 million tracks, and as that total balloons, artists and labels are overcrowded, fans are overwhelmed, and streaming services struggle to keep up. by Mark Mulligan of MIDiA and the Music Industry Blog When governments plan […]
By offloading CPU loads onto the Graphical Processing Unit, GPU Audio is placing a powerful and underexploited parallel processor at the center of music production. The shift could have massive implications for the emerging music metaverse, AI, resource-intensive production environments, collaboration platforms, and bandwidth-demanding concert live streams. The company might provide the critical backbone required […]
We recently had an insightful conversation with someone working at Spotify. We asked him the question; how many songs you should release as an artist? We got some inside information from someone working at Spotify on how many songs you should release. The person with whom we spoke is curating one of the most extensive […]
Photo Credit: Spotify Spotify finally realized its barebones Apple Watch app experience is hurting more than helping. The streaming giant redesigned the app with new features. The Spotify Apple Watch app before the update was barely worth using. Songs on the screen appeared in a text-only list, which made it hard to find music quickly. […]
The fact that a growing number of artists are canceling tours and rethinking their touring plans has gotten the attention of both music and mainstream media. The thought of fewer live performances is both disconcerting for fans and devastating for artists, most of whom rely on touring for the majority of their income, particularly in […]
