Welcome to spinme.com, where we help working musicians make more money making music. If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed or our weekly newsletter. Thanks for visiting!With all the internet radio and YouTube stuff happening this week, this news nugget nearly slipped by me:
The EFF managed to get [...]
Simon Cowell seems to think so.
The American Idol judge reveals in an interview with Anderson Cooper that acts he has signed to Sony BMG have sold more than 100 million records over the past five years. Springsteen, on the other hand, has not had what music industry insiders would call a blockbuster since Tunnel [...]
Where did the music industry go so wrong?
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A2IM has published the “Rules of Engagement” document that evolved from the settlement agreement with the country’s four biggest radio chains. In some ways, it feels like a throwback to twenty years ago.
In the pre-web days, to bend the ear of a music director, you had to call the station during “office hours,” a few [...]
In Host Your Own Concerts, I wrote about churches as a viable type of venue for concerts you can stage on your own. The trend’s really taking off, with more megachurches hosting evening entertainment. While most of the events are spiritually connected, like the Left Behind movies, you can often find a church music director [...]
Independent media distributor The Orchard has teamed up with social music service Last.fm to make its catalog of over one million tracks available to the service’s users. If you haven’t used Last.fm, you should definitely check it out. While it’s not for everyone, it’s a neat tool that suggests songs you might like based on [...]
FMQB: The Effect of American Idol on Pop Music
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Lily Allen slates Apple’s iTunes tactics
(British singer Lily Allen has accused Apple of bullying musicians into providing exclusive content for iTunes.) Um, Lily? You have a really good record that doesn’t need the help, k?
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If I see anything else that tries to frame the front of the iTunes Store as a potential scandal, I’m gonna hurl. There’s nothing wrong with iTunes, as a content aggregator, choosing how to allocate its promotional inventory.
Brick-and-mortar stores charge hefty fees to get record company product on endcaps. Many analysts believe that pay-for-placement endcap [...]
This is where things get very sticky.
Until now, college broadcasters were able to pay a flat rate royalty based on the size of their campus and the maximum number of listeners supported by their streaming hardware.
I can’t find a definitive answer for what’s going to happen next, but it looks like the intent of the [...]
More about the threat to internet radio from our friends at Kurt Hanson’s shop:
First, the SoundExchange guys say, “don’t blame us.” And they’re right. Any time I’ve dealt with the folks there, they’ve always been kind, gracious, and really passionate about their ideals. And that’s awesome. I don’t think they’re part of any conspiracy, and [...]
