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Trends In the Music Industry

Trends In the Music Industry Watch a great interview of artist manager Scooter Braun and Live Nation' CEO Michael Rapino about the trends in the music industry. While the revenues of the recorded music industry have been declining, revenues in the live event industry have actually increased over the past decade.

ByPMMNovember 18, 20140Comments

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Interview With The Guy Who Killed The Music Industry

Interview With The Guy Who Killed The Music Industry Did Napster co-founder Sean Parker kill the music industry by facilitating the illegal downloading of music via P2P? Here he is more than a decade and a few hundred million dollars in his pocket later talking about his latest start-up forays. Should we love him or…

ByPMMNovember 18, 20140Comments

Artist People

Rapper 50 Cent Thinks Like a Harvard Businessman

Rapper 50 Cent Thinks Like a Harvard Businessman In this interesting interview, Hip Hop artist and rapper 50 Cent (aka Curtis Jackson) talks about his future plans as an entrepreneur and philanthropist. What's interesting about this interview is that many artists are actively expanding their activities beyond music and record sales, particularly as revenues…

ByPMMNovember 18, 20140Comments

Artist Insights People

Is Taylor Swift The Smartest Person In Music?

Is Taylor Swift The Smartest Person In Music? Maybe an exaggeration, but Taylor Swift certainly got attention when she pulled her catalogue from various streaming music services in protest of the low royalties being paid.

ByPMMNovember 15, 20140Comments

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Legendary Producers Denniz PoP and Max Martin

See the legendary producers, the late Denniz Pop and Max Martin in the studio in this video clip.Below also a tongue-in-cheek profile of the very secretive Max Martin who went to make more than $250 million from his songwriting:

ByPMMOctober 23, 20140Comments

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The Music Industry Is About To Change…

The last 30 years reshaped the music business in a way we never could have imagined. Music as a product changed dramatically (e.g. from LPs to MP3s) and the ups and downs in worldwide sales would make the most hardened theme park visitor queasy. Nonetheless, we have yet to experience the biggest switchback on this…

ByPMMOctober 4, 20140Comments

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UK music industry generated £3.8bn in 2013

UK Music Industry generated £3.8 billion The Guardian newspaper reported that the British music industry contributed £3.8bn to the UK economy in 2013, according to an annual trade report. With the sector seeing a 9% growth over the year before, lobbyists called for a stronger national copyright framework to increase royalties even further. The full Guardian…

ByPMMSeptember 13, 20140Comments

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Revenue Sources in the Music Industry

By David Goldstein Watch the music industry's revenue sources evolve over the years. Our friends over at Business Insider posted this interesting article and chart that shows how things have changed. The CD has slowly but surely been dying with the advent of the Internet. P2P services like Napster and Bittorrent have accelerated its demise, but…

ByPMMAugust 24, 20140Comments

Music

How artists get discovered on YouTube

How artists get discovered on YouTube And yet another artist gets discovered on YouTube: Daniela Andrade’s cute rendition of the Gnarls Barkley hit song “CRAZY” is proof that artists can also pitch cover versions of hit songs to A&R’s and Hollywood music supervisors to get noticed. After her version of the song was featured on the…

ByPMMAugust 1, 20140Comments

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Writing songs in the jungles of Ubud on Bali, Indonesia

Writing songs in the jungles of Ubud on Bali, Indonesia Producer/writer/publisher Ricky Rick sent us this one to remind us that sometimes your environment can make all the difference to your inspiration. Lost in the jungles of beautiful Ubud on the Indonesian island of Bali, Ricky writes “a week on Bali is more productive and inspirational…

ByPMMJuly 21, 20140Comments

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Trends In the Music Industry

Interview With The Guy Who Killed The Music Industry

Rapper 50 Cent Thinks Like a Harvard Businessman

Is Taylor Swift The Smartest Person In Music?

Legendary Producers Denniz PoP and Max Martin

The Music Industry Is About To Change…

UK music industry generated £3.8bn in 2013

Revenue Sources in the Music Industry

How artists get discovered on YouTube

Writing songs in the jungles of Ubud on Bali, Indonesia

will.i.am on the music business

Justin Bieber in the studio

Elektra record label president Jeff Castelaz on how to get a record deal