Stories tagged "musicindustry"

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Derek Sivers recently sold CD Baby, a company he founded that has distributed around 4.6 million CDs from independent bands through online music stores in the past ten years, disbursing

The blog series from Peter Wells, SVP of Operations at Tunecore, “What Every Musician Should Know about Digital Distribution” Part IV: Good Marketing and Bad.

RIAA chairman and chief executive Mitch Bainwol pulled an annual salary of nearly $1.5 million in 2006. The payout was easily rivaled by president Cary Sherman, who pulled a base salary of $974,231, plus benefits totaling $584,287.

The publishing company wants the indie venue to cough up $735 annually for a music license, despite the fact that all music played and performed at the space is original, copyright-free material.

Before we delve into the wonderful world of touring logistics, strategies, great ideas that can help, perhaps we should ponder if, with all of the technological advancements every day AND (for f’s sake) the price of gas!, If it’s even necessary to tou

John Doe, founder of the seminal Los Angeles punk group X, a solo artist and actor, answers questions about music and the music business in the WWJDD? blog. In this post he answers a question from Robert who is interested in getting noticed.

Most artists aren’t really going to sell that many downloads, no matter how good the music is. So getting free technology is key to making direct music sales worthwhile.

With all the music marketing information, strategies and tools being pushed at artists today it can be easy to overlook the one thing music fans are most interested in, the music. It’s critical for music fans to easily find downloadable MP3's.

Four possible reasons why the record industry isn't what it was, and why blaming Napster and their like may be incorrect.