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Where Do We Go From Here
It’s New Years Eve, and I’m in a bit of a reflective mood. When I think back on this year, I realize that the question I get asked the most — both...
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Forbes Profile on New Platform for Brand/Artist Partnerships
Forbes recently published both parts one and two of a two-part series profiling Music Audience Exchange and our TuneLaunch platform.
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Nick Messitte at Forbes Weighs In On Payola Laws
A couple weeks back I wrote a piece here explaining why Payola Laws distort the market in the music industry ensuring that independent artists are...
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Fixing Radio
I’ve written at some length about the difficulties surrounding getting your music played on radio. The bottom line is that unless you’re an artist...
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Payola Laws & The Greatest Music You’ve Never Heard
The laws and regulations our politicians and governmental agencies put into place can distort markets and restrict our options as consumers. Lately...
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Taylor Swift & The Streaming Debate: Why Everyone’s Got it All Wrong
The recent firestorm of controversy over Taylor Swift’s decision to pull her catalogue from Spotify (the ramifications of this covered nicely by...
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No One Knows About Your Music? Let’s Change That!
This article in Music Times that expands upon a study from Next Big Sound stating that 90.7 percent of “music artists are complete unknowns” pisses...
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What Exactly IS “the Music Industry?"
This article from The Motley Fool (“Why the Music Industry Desperately Needs Apple”) provides a pretty limited, loose definition of “the industry” -...
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Music Business 101 – Understanding Copyright: Neighboring Rights
I’m digging the article from the INgrooves newsletter that was re-blogged by the always great Hypebot (and linked to below). There are some good...