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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

How To

How to get a record deal

How to get a record deal How does one go about getting a record deal? If you've followed American Idol or any other talent competition, you've seen the tens of thousands of aspiring and sometimes multi-talented singers waiting sometimes days to endure a grueling audition. As some industry insiders would tell you, that's the "easy…

ByPMMOctober 6, 20140Comments

Insights

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

Confessions

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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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

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Will Spotify save or kill the music industry?

Will Spotify save or kill the music industry? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9HTRchis1Y&feature=youtu.be Love it or hate it, music streaming is here to stay. Spotify has pioneered another legal alternative to piracy - advertising-funded and paid subscription-based music streaming. Alas, the royalty rates for music streaming are much lower than for downloads and CD's, so it's not exactly an apple-for-apple…

ByPMMFebruary 8, 20140Comments

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The Future of Music Licensing

Top executives discuss the present and future issues in music licensing at MIDEM. Key trends and their impact on the music business.

ByPMMFebruary 3, 20140Comments

A&R’s & Music Supervisors People

Sony Music UK Chairman & CEO Nick Gatfield On How to Make It

UK label chief Nick Gatfield gets between 4,000 to 5,000 submissions a year, but only signs 20. What a tough business! Anyway, some interesting insights from one of the largest record labels and how to best approach them.

ByPMMOctober 24, 20130Comments

Pro Music Magazine

Rapper 50 Cent Thinks Like a Harvard Businessman

How to get a record deal

The Music Industry Is About To Change…

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

UK music industry generated £3.8bn in 2013

Revenue Sources in the Music Industry

Amazon Launches Spotify Competitor

Will Spotify save or kill the music industry?

The Future of Music Licensing

Sony Music UK Chairman & CEO Nick Gatfield On How to Make It

Sting on overcoming writer’s block

will.i.am on the music business

Justin Bieber in the studio