Indie Bands Reach New Sales Heights Through iTunes (tags: musicbusiness) Superstar guitarist Satriani reflects upon industry changes (tags: musicbusiness) Shake-up in music business with the breakup of the album (tags: musicbusiness)
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Joe Taylor Jr.
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Rachel Platten: Launching The Band What do you need to succeed? “Balls. Serious Balls.” (tags: musicbusiness)
American Idol Songwriting Contest On Hold
UPDATE 4.4.07: American Idol Songwriting Competition Signups Open!! We figured as much, but reality blurred points us to an interview with American Idol Executive Producer Ken Warwick, who tells TV Week that “it still may happen, but at the moment,…
Bum Rush the Charts Day
Via Bob, I learned about this interesting attempt to game the downloadable singles chart, the way that authors often do at Amazon.com. By coordinating a whole lot of purchases through iTunes, the organizers hope to land a podsafe single by…
Getting Over the MySpace Hump
Nancy’s got some great coverage of artists who are discovering that they’ve got to migrate their audience away from MySpace onto their own websites so they can really start to benefit from their relationships with fans. Here’s one funny story…
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Bruce Springsteen Book: For You One of the cool things from the Springsteen discussion — some fans are putting together a very cool book of personal Bruce experiences. (tags: musicbusiness)
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American Idol Songwriting Competition Details Getting Clearer (tags: musicbusiness americanidol)
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Getting Made at SXSW While SXSW is probably the music conference that is most “open” to the public, it’s still a staging ground for new acts, carefully organized by labels that want their recent signings to come off as the…
Live Recording Patent Busted
With all the internet radio and YouTube stuff happening this week, this news nugget nearly slipped by me: The EFF managed to get a patent revoked that prevented many artists and clubs from offering quick-turnaround CD recordings of live performances.…
Is Simon Cowell More Important to American Music than Bruce Springsteen?
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…
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Where did the music industry go so wrong? (tags: musicbusiness)
Rules of Engagement for Radio and Independent Labels
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…