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Meet Record Producer Rob Cavallo

Meet Record Producer Rob Cavallo Meet record producer Rob Cavallo, best known for signing Green Day to his record label Reprise Records. Rob Cavallo has also worked with Alanis Morissette, Jawbreaker and many others top artists. In this interesting interview he provides his advice from an A&R and record production perspective.

ByPMMJanuary 14, 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

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

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

Pro Music Magazine

Meet Record Producer Rob Cavallo

The Next Big Thing in Music Licensing

How to build an Artist’s Career

Trends In the Music Industry

Interview With The Guy Who Killed The Music Industry

Rapper 50 Cent Thinks Like a Harvard Businessman

The Music Industry Is About To Change…

UK music industry generated £3.8bn in 2013

Revenue Sources in the Music Industry

Amazon Launches Spotify Competitor

Sting on overcoming writer’s block

will.i.am on the music business

Justin Bieber in the studio