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A Response to Steve Albini About The Internet and Musicians by UNSOUND Film...
By Count Eldridge My rebuttal to Steve Albini’s bullet point post. Steve Albini’s poorly reasoned piece was posted, so I feel obligated to try to correct some of the glaring misinformation. I’ve spent...
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Merlin on YouTube music payouts: “Their figures are by far the worst”| Music...
No surprise to us… “The ironic thing is that the service that pays the least is the service that’s the most well funded and run by the biggest company in the world: their figures are by far the worst,...
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David Pakman is Wrong on The Price Of Music (and streaming subscriptions)
Is there anyone left in the record business with common sense and a calculator? David Pakman wrote an interesting piece asserting the problem with streaming services getting up to scale is a matter of...
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Merlin on YouTube music payouts: ‘Their figures are by far the worst’ | Music...
“The ironic thing is that the service that pays the least is the service that’s the most well funded and run by the biggest company in the world: their figures are by far the worst, whether you measure...
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Swimming Against the Stream: Musicians Fight for Their Worth in the Internet...
The cops were getting lots of calls. Drivers were worried. There was a woman walking down the road — the narrow part of Highway 1, just north of L.A. And she was pushing a baby carriage. When the cops...
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YouTube steps up row with indie labels by confirming imminent video blocks |...
This story is taking on a lot of dimensions of what it might be and what it might mean, Music Ally tries to get some late breaking insight. Of particular note is the comment by Radiohead manager Brian...
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YouTube’s Attack On Indies Gets Strong Response From WIN, But It’s Time For...
YouTube/Google and Amazon Are Using Their Power Against Creatives If you’ve been watching the last 15 years or so of web development, you’ve seen a relatively wide open field of entrepreneurial...
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Songwriters Are Losing $2.3 Billion A Year Due To Outdated Government...
Right now a byzantine system is in place that not only dates back more than 70 years but also differs depending on the distribution platform. Traditional radio stations, for instance, pay royalties to...
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CCC-NYC : International Fete de la Musique day
We’re looking forward to seeing coverage from the event in NYC yesterday. Google-owned YouTube’s new streaming service has rates so low it will put many indie labels and hardworking artists out of...
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Pandora: money trumps morality, ran ads for anti-gay group.
Above Pandora CFO Mike Herring shows how down with the gays Pandora really is! The link goes to a custom Pandora radio station for “Oakland Pride Radio.” Wow that’s really going out on a limb...
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Five Important Questions For Spotify from Artists and Managers
If artists and managers were to find themselves in a room in the coming weeks with representatives of Spotify there are some questions which should probably be asked and some issues which should...
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Music Streaming is “just dressed-up piracy” says Rosanne Cash| Hypebot
Hypebot noticed this Facebook post from Rosanne Cash which echoes the sentiments of many artists, that streaming in it’s current form and economics is pretty much legitimized piracy… READ THE FULL POST...
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* BREAKING * Spotify Launches Secret ‘Information Tour’ to Convince Top...
Breaking from Digital Music News: Currently, we know of three confirmed dates in the US: October 6th (ie, today) at the Soho Club in New York, October 8th at City Winery in Nashville, and October 10th...
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c3 ”#thatsongwhen 10k people listened, the artist got paid $60 and the major...
c3, The Content Creators Coalition is enlisting musicians and songwriters to share their true stories of Spotify plays, payments and thoughts to raise awareness around unsustainable digital service...
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Streaming Is the Future, Spotify Is Not. Let’s talk Solutions.
It’s not that streaming can’t work. It can. It’s that Spotify is a bad business model that has unsustainable economics and exploits artists because it is a wall street financial instrument and not a...
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Let The Heads Roll…More Genius From The Record Industry Braintrust or Mark...
Happy Halloween and welcome to the scary stupid post of the day… We’ve been saying this for a long time, music streaming math just doesn’t add up. Would someone please buy some calculators for the...
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BREAKING! Apple Announces Itunes One Dollar Albums and Ten Cent Song...
Satire – but not by much. Apple Computer announced today that for it’s Itunes Music Store to remain competitive in the digital distribution marketplace for music they would be changing their retail...
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Absolute Must Read : How To Make Streaming Royalties Fair(er) | Medium
The record industry has completely disconnected the relationship between artists and their fans whereby the artists catalog is now an aggregated asset to leverage (the label’s) equity in a tech start...
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It’s Just Math : Digital Music Execs Exit, But will the Pivot to Paid Subs Be...
Back in October of 2014 we asked the question “Who will be the First Fired Label Execs over Spotify Fiasco & Cannibalization?“. Now we know. In one week, two senior major label digital music execs...
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YouTube’s Content ID : $375.00 Per Million Views… aka “Block In All Countries”…
We’ve been supplied nearly a year’s worth of Content ID data from a mid-sized indie label. Over the course of about a year here’s what the data shows: After nearly a year and 80 million plays, the net...
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