Review of MusicSupervisorGuide
by David Goldstein
MusicSupervisorGuide (http://www.musicsupervisorguide.com) is really three services in one: First, it is a music supervisor directory listing thousands of music supervisors and advertising agency creatives in charge of licensing music for film, TV, videogame and advertising projects. Two, the service provides a list of hundreds of active film and…
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.
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…
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…
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.
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:
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…
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…
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…
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…