Avril G Looking for a Job in the Music Business? Here is where to start Hypebot – How do you get a job in the music business? This might be one of the most common questions that Mike Brandvold and Jay Gilbert are asked.… and start working in the music business. FIND MORE FROM MUSIC BIZ WEEKLY … Read more
The Copyright Office Sends Modernized Regrets thetrichordist As we reported in a prior post about George Johnson’s grass roots effort to ask the Copyright Office to review that status of the compulsory license which… Read more “The Copyright Office Sends Modernized Regrets”… Lainey Wilson, Darius Rucker & The Cadillac Three Become Voices For ESPN’s ‘College GameDay’ … Read more
YouTube explains the Shorts algorithm in 2023 (Video) RouteNote Blog YouTube’s Creator Liaison, Rene Ritchie sat down with Director of Shorts Product Management, Todd Sherman to discuss the Shorts algorithm on the Creator Insider channel. This video follows on from a video earlier this year from the same channel on understanding the YouTube algorithm for … Read more
Music Biz Member Record Store Day Launches 2023 Edition of RSD Unsigned Competition News Archive – Music Business Association Record Store Day organizers have partnered with Breed Media to launch the 2023 edition of the RSD Unsigned competition, which will provide a rising independent artist with a pressing of 500 records on more sustainably sourced … Read more
Musicologist Ewan Simpson Says Steely & Clevie’s Reggaetón Lawsuit Has A “Racial Element” Music Industry News … more sophisticated markets for music and creativity that put … European musicians borrowed elements of the genre in their music or … worked with reggae musicians on certain … and some amount of copying musical elements, not just … Read more
Google and Universal Music Group: Artist Compensation in the Era of AI arielpublicity It would be nice to be paid for your work, wouldn’t it? To make sure you’re getting all the royalties you deserve, the hidden income that you might not even know you’re owed? Part of this is where PROs come in of … Read more
How robots are replacing talent scouts in the crisis-ridden music industryThe Telegraph – The heady days of the hard-living A&R man are long gone. Veterans of the profession explain how streaming and social media are taking over…As former A&R man John Niven wrote in his dark music industry novel Kill Your Friends, A&Rs are “the … Read more
Songwriters are worried about BMI’s private equity sale – and if it will hurt their royalties …Music Business WorldwideIn other words, they got to play songs for free?” The impact of a change to BMI’s business model could be profound for the US music business. For the … Irving Azoff – Music Business WorldwideMusic Business … Read more
Music Biz Member BMG Inks Catalog Publishing Deal With The Chemical Brothers News Archive – Music Business Association Berlin-based music company, BMG has struck a publishing deal with UK Electronic music duo, the Chemical Brothers to consolidate their entire publishing catalog. Per the partnership, the Chemical Brothers’ first seven albums, major hits and No. 1 … Read more
Alternative Folk Artist the last optimist Uses Music As a Tool For Awakening Independent Music Promotions “This has been a year of alchemy. Turning challenging times into poetry, poetry into song verse, guitar plucking into orchestration, and hard experience into resilience. ‘Seed Water Sun’ is the soundtrack for that rough ride of human experience in … Read more