Will Spotify save or kill the music industry?
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Love it or hate it, music streaming is here to stay. Spotify has pioneered another legal alternative to piracy - advertising-funded and paid subscription-based music streaming. Alas, the royalty rates for music streaming are much lower than for downloads and CD's, so it's not exactly an apple-for-apple…
Top executives discuss the present and future issues in music licensing at MIDEM. Key trends and their impact on the music business.
UK label chief Nick Gatfield gets between 4,000 to 5,000 submissions a year, but only signs 20. What a tough business! Anyway, some interesting insights from one of the largest record labels and how to best approach them.
Watch record producer 'DarkChild' Rodney Jerkins with recording artist Lady Gaga
Rodney Jerkins, also known as Darkchild, is one of the world’s top Urban record producers. In this very special video, we have the 37-year old multi-instrumentalist jam with Lady Gaga as they put the finishing touches on what was to become the huge international…
Grammy Award Winner Kandi
Grammy Award winner Kandi took the time to speak to us about her career and her future plans and what it takes to succeed in the industry, how important it is to clear publishing splits before you complete a song and how she pitches music to some of the biggest acts…
Hit Songwriter Gordon Pogoda
Gordon Pogoda has successfully placed his music not only in an Academy Award winning motion picture, but also in over 40 TV shows (including world-wide syndicated shows like "Sex and the City", "Hannah Montana", "CSI: Miami", "ER", "Will and Grace", and "King of the Hill” and many more).
His songs…
The Hit Factory: The Stock Aitken & Waterman Story
Check out this brilliant documentary charting the success of Mike Stock, Matt Aitken and Pete Waterman, the songwriting and record-producing trio who scored more than 100 top 40 hits in the 1980s and 90s, including a string of number ones, with acts including Kylie Minogue, Jason…
Grammy-winning Producer Timbaland
I just get depressed when I hear Timbaland’s “demo” productions. They are f*****g hot. They are the s****t. Pardon my French. But there’s no other way to describe his beats.
In this cool video, you see Timbaland try to persuade Hip Hop artist Jay-Z to pick one of his beats to flow…