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I hate A&R’s – Confessions of a Music Publisher

I hate A&R's - Confessions of a Music Publisher By Anonymous I hate A&R's. Many have a f***** god complex. They are f***** rude. They are just plain a******. But let me take a step back, and qualify my comments a little bit. See, I'm a music publisher. I'm a classically trained classical pianist. I'm a real…

ByPMMSeptember 29, 20140Comments

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Music on TV – Breakthrough Music Marketing

Music Placement on TV - From Background Music to Breakthrough Music Marketing There used to be a time, in our teen years, when the coolest thing to do was hang around the house with your friends and watch some MTV, secretly dreaming that you could be a rock star, live the life, have the money,…

ByPMMSeptember 23, 20140Comments

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Music In Advertising – Yell or Whisper?

Music In Advertising – To Yell or To Whisper? We get bombarded by it every day , from every conceivable angle. It’s the song that gets stuck in your head, the word you feel you must Google when you get home, the joke that you’ll laugh at a couple more times even after you get…

ByPMMSeptember 23, 20140Comments

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Music in Video Games – From the Stone Age to the Space Age

Music in Video Games - From the Stone Age to the Space Age From 'Space Invaders' to 'Need for Speed' or from 'Earthworm Jim' to 'Tomb Raider', there has got to be at least one videogame out there that can get your blood rushing, your head spinning and your mind craving for more; virtual realities…

ByPMMSeptember 23, 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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Record Producer RedOne on Songwriting

Record Producer RedOne on Songwriting RedOne has produced everyone from Lady Gaga, over Enrique Iglesias and Jennifer Lopez to Pitull. Nadir Khayat – better known as RedOne – is a Moroccan record producers who paid his dues and truly deserved the success he achieved. Before he got his truly big break with Lady Gaga, RedOne struggled for…

ByPMMSeptember 1, 20140Comments

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Review of Song Tipsheet myHitOnline

Review of Music Tip Sheet myHitOnline by David Goldstein With dozens of different music tip sheets – also known as song tipsheets – out there, it’s not easy to figure out to which one to subscribe. See, there are two types of tip sheets out there: solicited and unsolicited. Song tipsheets that offer solicited tip sheets,…

ByPMMSeptember 1, 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

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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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Indie Music – The New Mainstream on TV and in Film

Indie Music on TV - The New Mainstream in Film and TV Music supervisors and their ingenious music selections are quintessential, although we are sometimes unaware of it, in the success of a movie;”Titanic” would not be the heart-breaking and inspiring colossus of a movie it is if it weren’t for Celine Dion’s masterpiece and the…

ByPMMAugust 1, 20140Comments

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I hate A&R’s – Confessions of a Music Publisher

Music on TV – Breakthrough Music Marketing

Music In Advertising – Yell or Whisper?

Music in Video Games – From the Stone Age to the Space Age

UK music industry generated £3.8bn in 2013

Record Producer RedOne on Songwriting

Review of Song Tipsheet myHitOnline

Revenue Sources in the Music Industry

How artists get discovered on YouTube

Indie Music – The New Mainstream on TV and in Film

Sting on overcoming writer’s block

will.i.am on the music business

Justin Bieber in the studio