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Can Today’s Top Artists Actually Sing?

Can Today's Top Artists Actually Sing? Some artists are truly amazing singers as reality TV shows like Pop Idol, XFactor and the Voice show. But there are still some bad apples, completely manufactured "artists" out there that don't really have the goods. God bless Autotune. :) http://youtu.be/e51_hSuKZKA

ByPMMDecember 11, 20140Comments

People Record Producer

Confessions Of A Record Producer

Confessions Of A Record Producer Here are a couple of interviews with "Moses Avalon", the record producer behind the book "Confessions Of A Record Producer". Hear him talk about some of the lessons in his book and what made him write "Confessions Of A Record Producer in the first place. Here he is Moses Avalon commenting on music streaming:…

ByPMMNovember 27, 20140Comments

A&R’s & Music Supervisors

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

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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

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Amazon Launches Spotify Competitor

Amazon launches Spotify Competitor eCommerce giant Amazon launched a music streaming service that will compete head-on with Spotify, Pandora, Beats Music and Apple. With its Kindle tablets, Amazon has shown its ability to sell premium content in other categories such as books, film and TV successfully to its customers. As music streaming is becoming more…

ByPMMJune 12, 20140Comments