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Department of Justice To Review ASCAP and BMI Consent Decrees

June 10, 2014

The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced last week that it will be reviewing both ASCAP and BMI's consent decrees. The consent decrees, originally entered in 1941, were created to level the playing field a... Read More...

How Streaming Services are Screwing Lady Gaga (and Every Other Artist)

Paul Resnikoff

June 10, 2014

Streaming services like Spotify are notorious for making tiny, per-play payments. But it turns out that none of that matters, because none of that makes it back to the artist. And now we have proof: here's a ... Read More...

Artists Will Receive Nothing from the $3 Billion Beats Acquisition, Sources Say…

Paul Resnikoff

June 9, 2014

The three major labels secured an equity share in Beats Music as part of their licensing agreements with the service. But according to multiple sources close to those negotiations and Beats' subs... Read More...

Kaskade: “Sharing Helps the Artist, the Fan, and the Music Industry”

Nina Ulloa

June 6, 2014

Kakade recently took to his blog to explain a series of tweets he sent about deleting his SoundCloud account. 70 percent of his tracks have been taken down by SoundCloud, and he will now be creating h... Read More...

Why Apple’s Acquisition of Beats Is Bad for Indie Labels, Artists, and the Industry…

Steve Gordon

June 6, 2014

The following guest post comes from music industry attorney Steve Gordon. It was written with the assistance of Mona Goodarzi, a senior at UC Berkeley, and Brooke Weinberg, a rising law student at Hofsta L... Read More...

Amazon Caves To Independent Publishers

Ari Herstand

June 3, 2014

It's been no secret that Amazon has been working on their streaming service and plans to launch in less than 2 months. Most speculate that their streaming service will be bundled together with Amazon Prime,... Read More...

Want to Know the Best Digital Music Distribution Company?

Ari Herstand

May 29, 2014

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I sat down with reps at 8 different digital distribution companies, CD Baby, DistroKid, Ditto Music, Loudr, Mondotunes, ReverbNation, Symphonic, Tunecore and Zimbalam, to get a full in-depth look at each comp... Read More...

Songkick vs. Bandsintown: Both Services Have 10 Million Users

Nina Ulloa

May 27, 2014

Concert-tracking app Songkick has now reached 10 million unique monthly users. Songkick says they've generated $100 million in revenue through their ticketing partnerships. They also say they're on track tow... Read More...

Pandora To Allow Artists To See Their Listener Data

Ari Herstand

May 22, 2014

At the SF MusicTech conference in San Francisco this past Tuesday, Pandora's VP of Business Affairs, Chris Harrison, revealed (in a private chat after his panel) that Pandora is creating a backend interface... Read More...

19 Indie Label Organizations Speak Out Against YouTube…

Paul Resnikoff

May 22, 2014

YouTube has already inked lucrative licensing deals with Warner Music Group, Universal Music Group, and Sony Music Entertainment for the upcoming YouTube Music launch. But according to dozens of in... Read More...

Bands That Make More Than $100,000 Per Gig

Paul Resnikoff

May 21, 2014

This is part of a substantial list leaked from booking agency Degy Entertainment, and first published by Priceonomics. These are the bands that pull in more than $100,000 a gig, with a large number attractin... Read More...

Epidemic Sound Raises $5 Million for Their Production Music Library…

Nina Ulloa

May 19, 2014

Launched in 2009, Epidemic Sound is a production music library with a library of tracks available for video creators. They offer music in any country, on any platform. Epidemic Sound is a subscription based ... Read More...

SRR Capital Launches With a VC-Style Approach to Music Investing

What Is Attribution?

So Busy With "The Quiet Time..."

Netflix Won the Streaming Wars. YouTube Changed the Rules.

Indonesia: One of the World’s Most Promising Digital Music Markets

What Politicians Could Learn from the Music Business: A Midterm Election Primer

Department of Justice To Review ASCAP and BMI Consent Decrees

How Streaming Services are Screwing Lady Gaga (and Every Other Artist)

Artists Will Receive Nothing from the $3 Billion Beats Acquisition, Sources Say…

Kaskade: “Sharing Helps the Artist, the Fan, and the Music Industry”

Why Apple’s Acquisition of Beats Is Bad for Indie Labels, Artists, and the Industry…

Amazon Caves To Independent Publishers

Want to Know the Best Digital Music Distribution Company?

Songkick vs. Bandsintown: Both Services Have 10 Million Users

Pandora To Allow Artists To See Their Listener Data

19 Indie Label Organizations Speak Out Against YouTube…

Bands That Make More Than $100,000 Per Gig

Epidemic Sound Raises $5 Million for Their Production Music Library…