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Managing Innovation in the Music Industry

Managing Innovation in the Music Industry Ever since the advent of P2P sharing with Napster, the music industry really hasn't been managing innovation. If anything, they've been acting like a deer caught in headlights and stalling innovation. Indeed, the CEO's of the large record labels and royalty societies have been without an exception old…

ByPMMJanuary 9, 20150Comments

Inside Scoop People

Meet Seymour Stein of Sire Records

Seymour Sire of Sire Records is one of the living music business legends. In this keynote interview at the music conference MIDEM, Seymour talks about the state of the music business, lessons learned and what the future holds. [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xR8DfrsV1lA[/embedyt]

ByPMMJanuary 9, 20150Comments

How To

How to Build an Audience on YouTube

How to Build an Audience on YouTube What does it take to build an engaged and loyal audience on YouTube? The folks at MIDEM asked YouTube's Louise Letendre to give us the inside scoop. YouTube is one of the key marketing tools for any new artist and band to start building a fan…

ByPMMJanuary 9, 20150Comments

How To

The Next Big Thing in Music Licensing

The Next Big Thing in Music Licensing What's next in the world of music licensing? Just a few years ago, film and TV sync were the hottest topics. Then streaming music with Spotify arrived. But what's next? Is it going to get better or worse? Hear this expert panel on the future of…

ByPMMJanuary 8, 20150Comments

How To

How to build an Artist’s Career

How to build an Artist's Career Here's some cutting-edge advice on how to go about building an artist's career with an expert panel at last year's MIDEM show. Some great insights.

ByPMMJanuary 8, 20150Comments

Insights

The Rise of the Musicpreneur

The Rise of the Musicpreneur With the rapid decline of the music industry as a whole, it is becoming increasingly difficult for both signed and unsigned artists to make a living from their music in the long-term. Only the top 0.1% of artists can make a substantial living. But few people are in the…

ByPMMJanuary 8, 20150Comments

Artist

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

Insights

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

Pro Music Magazine

Managing Innovation in the Music Industry

Meet Seymour Stein of Sire Records

How to Build an Audience on YouTube

The Next Big Thing in Music Licensing

How to build an Artist’s Career

The Rise of the Musicpreneur

Can Today’s Top Artists Actually Sing?

Confessions Of A Record Producer

Trends In the Music Industry

Interview With The Guy Who Killed The Music Industry

Sting on overcoming writer’s block

will.i.am on the music business

Justin Bieber in the studio