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HIFIDELICS - New Music on Vinyl Records. Why Vinyl Is NOT Going To Save The Music Industry (And What Will) - Trust Me, I'm A Scientist. Vinyl sales have exploded over the past six years. They grew by 44% in 2010, 39% in 2011 and 19% in 2012. At first glance, this seems huge — Especially when you take into account that music sales in general have dropped over 60% from their peak. But here’s the dirty little secret you probably haven’t read so much about: Look more closely and you’ll quickly realize that vinyl isn’t so huge at all. Vinyl can still be a meaningful supplement for some niche bands and audiences. If you can make money selling it, please do. On a personal level, I like vinyl. Here’s a hint: It has nothing to do with selling discs. How Big is The Vinyl Market? Recently, a marketing agent for a vinyl-by-mail company called Feedbands wrote an Op-Ed for Digital Music News.

I can accept that marketing agents and PR people sometimes write “news” stories, so long as they reveal who they are, and they stay accurate and intellectually honest. Meanwhile, vinyl sales in 2102 were around $160 million. I believe my friend. Sony Names Jason Spivak EVP of Worldwide Distribution. Spivak will push Sony in the digital direction and continue to explore cloud storage Sony Pictures Home Entertainment named Jason Spivak executive vice president of worldwide digital distribution, the company announced Thursday. Spivak, who was promoted from senior vice president and general manager of worldwide digital distribution, will continue to lead the team responsible for Sony's transactional digital business around the world. "Jason has overseen tremendous growth in our digital transactional business," his boss Jim Underwood, the executive vice president for worldwide digital and commercial strategy, said in a statement.

"this has been done, in large part, by his forging strong partnerships with our customers and working with them to innovate and drive increased business in this area. " Also read: Sony Names New Digital Leader for Home Entertainment Spivak previously served as the senior vice president of strategic development.

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BOOKING. ROYALTIES. S Twitter 140: The Music Industry Characters You Need to Follow. If the question is, Where do people go to talk about music? , one answer is certainly Twitter. The San Francisco-based micro-blogging service, launched in 2006 as a platform developed with so-called "dumb" phones in mind (which dictated the 140-character limit of all Twitter posts, or "tweets," as that was the maximum capacity of a standard single text message), now contains more than 140 million accounts, logging some 340 million tweets per day.

The most talked-about subject on the service, according to Twitter's own internal metrics? Music. Twitter's five most-followed accounts? Lady Gaga (27.5 million), Justin Bieber (25.6 million), Katy Perry (23.4 million), Rihanna (23.2 million) and Britney Spears (19 million). And five of the top 10 trending topics (as in, the most discussed at any one time) on Twitter for all of last year?

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How Developers Are Shaping the Future of Music. That the music industry has radically changed in the last decade is a serious understatement. Technology has altered everything from the creation of music to its distribution, upending retailers, studios and business models across the industry. But it's not all bad news. Music isn't dying so much as evolving, and the landscape is already beginning to look quite different.

Not long ago, the professional music industry involved a complex but fixed set of players: artists, labels, managers, promoters and the like. Many of these roles have changed, but none have disappeared. They're joined by a new set of participants: tech giants, streaming services, social music startups and, perhaps most crucially, developers. Every stakeholder in this new (and still emerging) digital music ecosystem plays their own important role in the creation and consumption of music. The most recent Music Hack Day spawned a total of 62 hacks. How Music Hack Day Helps the Music Industry Evolve. Billy Corgan SXSW 2012 Interview with Brian Solis Rocks Music Fans.

Billy Corgan 2012 Interview with Alex Jones on corporate interests and societal changes. Music lessons. Things you can learn from the music business (as it falls apart) The first rule is so important, it’s rule 0: 0. The new thing is never as good as the old thing, at least right now.Soon, the new thing will be better than the old thing will be. But if you wait until then, it’s going to be too late. Feel free to wax nostalgic about the old thing, but don’t fool yourself into believing it’s going to be here forever.

It won’t. 1. The music business had a spectacular run alongside the baby boomers. As a result, the music business built huge systems. It didn’t. 2. There’s a paradox in the music business that is mirrored in many industries: you want ubiquity, not obscurity, yet digital distribution devalues your core product. Remember, the music business is the one that got in trouble for bribing disk jockeys to play their music on the radio. Most items of value derive that value from scarcity. The solution isn’t to somehow try to become obscure, to get your song off the (digital) radio. 3. 4. MAJOR LABEL ARTIST 'REVEALS SECRET STRATEGY' FOR SELLING MUSIC ONLINE!

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1,000 True Fans. Wahwah. Todd Rundgren on CNBC - Interview. How 125 days with Spotify changed my music habits. Now that I work from home and don’t commute as frequently, I have been listening to more music on my main computer. Not a lot, but for at least 5-15 hours per week. For the past few months — about 125 days since Spotify launched, actually — I have also used Spotify in addition to iTunes. Here are some of my observations of how Spotify has changed my music habits. When I know what I want to listen to, and/or plan to listen at a higher volume, I still try to listen to it in iTunes first. My computer speakers and headphones are decent, and I prefer a brighter sound, so audio quality and an equalizer are important to me.If I don’t have an album, I will go to Spotify to listen to it.

If I like it enough to play it more than twice, I’ll probably buy it from Amazon or iTunes. In general, I really like that Spotify exists, and I plan to continue to use it and iTunes/Amazon in parallel. I also plan to test Rdio out a bit. Kill The Record Industry. Cohen on Facebook's Music Strategy - Video. David Heinemeier Hansson. TrueDIY Biz: 10 Copyright Questions Answered.

PressPausePlay Sneak Peek #1 - Seth Godin. Jason Schmitt: Rethinking the Music Business. As the record industry started to dry up and die and the major labels were sort of crippled and starving -- it was a land grab. It was, "I just fired a third of my staff, and I am going to offer you half the money I would have last year.

But I am going to give you a shittier deal on records, plus I want a piece of touring, merchandising, and publishing for which I have no infrastructure, I don't really know what I am doing, and I am probably just going to get in the way. But I deserve it because my business sucks. " -- Matt Drouin, Manager of the band Metric Music may be between a musician, her guitar, and her fans: but when you introduce licensing, streaming audio, online campaigns, social media, the Cloud and many artists gravitating toward becoming their own label, you may need a four-wheel drive to plow through the congestion of left brain thought required to take the music to the end user.

The concept of "empowered artists" was a main theme for this specific meeting of the minds. Songkick — Concerts, tour dates, and festivals for your favorite artists. Home - Digital Music News. Mortimer.fas.harvard.edu/concerts_01oct2010.pdf. Rethink Music. RightsFlow - A licensing and royalty service provider.

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Music's lost decade: Sales cut in half in 2000s - Feb. 2, 2010. By David Goldman, staff writerFebruary 3, 2010: 9:52 AM ET NEWYORK (CNNMoney.com) -- If you watched the Grammy Awards Sunday night, it would appear all is well in the recording industry. But at the end of last year, the music business was worth half of what it was ten years ago and the decline doesn't look like it will be slowing anytime soon. Total revenue from U.S. music sales and licensing plunged to $6.3 billion in 2009, according to Forrester Research. In 1999, that revenue figure topped $14.6 billion. Although the Recording Industry Association of America will report its official figures in the early spring, the trend has been very clear: RIAA has reported declining revenue in nine of the past 10 years, with album sales falling an average of 8% each year. Last decade was the first ever in which sales were lower going out than coming in.

"There have been a lot of changes over the past 10 years," said Joshua Friedlander, vice president of research at RIAA. The disease of free. Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville. Français Make a donation! Online Tickets 2014 Edition The Festival The Organisation Archives Contact 15 au 18 mai 2014 News Programming Schedule Sound Art Installations in Public Spaces Exhibits Tickets Tourist Information Press Room Videos Volunteers Meredith Monk with Katie Geissinger The Ratchet Orchestrawith Marshall Allen Ava Mendoza« Unnatural Ways » Sarah NeufeldColin Stetson GGRIL Gros MenéRené Lussier Jerusalem In My Heart Richard PinhasKeiji HainoMerzbowTatsuya Yoshida Ufomammut François CarrierMichel Lambert Fred FrithEvan Parker Pierre LabbéMichel Faubert Gordon Grdina« Haram » Astma Ken Vandermark« Audio One » Keiji HainoOren AmbarchiStephen O'Malley Evan Parker« ElectroAcoustic Septet » Maja Ratkje Solo Duchess Says Fred Frith« The Gravity Band » Strong and eclectic programming Today, the FIMAV unveiled the full schedule of its 30th edition!

Festival Package Tour on sale The Festival Package Tour is now available! Videos – FIMAV @ 30 Evan Parker invites you to the FIMAV. Music Conference - Rethink Music. Ten-industry-leaders.pdf (application/pdf Object) How Artists Can Profit From File Sharing. FACT: people download music for free. Sean Parker of Napster fame recently stated in an interview, “you look at the data, somewhere between 4 trillion and 10 trillion songs are illegally downloaded every year.

And we’re looking at maybe 4 billion or so legal downloadeds per year.” Music will always surface on file sharing platforms and consumers will continue to download music for free, but recordings are even more important for artists than ever before. There is a new purpose for recorded content; artists will no longer generate revenue directly from recordings, instead this will be the entrance point for consumers into the brand. Great music will generate revenue through merch or ticket purchases, or lead to sponsorships as major brands seek out artists to enhance the value of their own product. The solution to file sharing is for artists to better manage their recorded music by creating a dedicated landing page on their own website, housing a free album download. 1. 2. 3. 4. Music Sales in U.S. Fell 2.4% in 2010; Digital Music Accounts for 46% of Purchases. A top-selling digital song of 2010 was “California Gurls” by Katy Perry (4.4 million).

U.S. music sales fell 2.4% in 2010 to 1.5 billion units, as CD sales plummeted nearly 20% while digital track sales were up just 1%, according to a report from Nielsen and Billboard. Digital track sales were 1.17 billion in 2010, up from 1.16 in 2009. While CD sales fell precipitously last year, digital album sales rose 13% to 863 million. The report notes that digital music accounted for 46% of all U.S. music purchases in 2010, up from 40% in 2009 and 32% in 2008, and digital track sales broke the 1 billion sales mark for the third straight year. The top-selling digital songs of 2010 were “California Gurls” by Katy Perry (4.4 million) and “Hey, Soul Sister” by Train (4.31 million), while the top digital albums were “Recovery” by Eminem (852,000) and “Speak Now” by Taylor Swift (488,000).

Via Digital Media Wire. MIDEMBlog | Learn. Share. Inspire. Transmission: Global Summit 2011. “I have been involved in Transmission events here and in China. If we’re going to build a solid creative economy in BC, the Global Summit is a critical step in moving our sector towards creating original content and products, and ultimately self-sufficiency in digital content. I look forward to being a part of making Global Summit a success for 2014.” Ian Verchere Chief Creative, Roadhouse Interactive With growing support across many sectors of the creative ecosystem, Transmission bloomed. Working hard to make sure that all sectors were represented accordingly at each event, we pushed together stakeholders that typically did not/could not/would not connect with each other on endemic issues facing the entire creative ecosystem.

From 2007-2008, talk of bringing ISPs into the value chain evolved into discussions about the future role of devices and operating systems.