Kobalt Music Publishing
Meet the Founder and CEO of Kobalt Music Publishing Willard Ahdritz and hear his views on key trends in the music publishing industry, and how Kobalt Music Publishing participates in it.
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,…
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…
Review of the Song Tipsheet SongQuarters
By David Goldstein
When you're ready to take the training wheels off your bicycle, SongQuarters (http://www.songquarters.com) is probably the next best song tipsheet semi-professional and professional songwriters and record producers upgrade to. Like the grandpa of song tipsheets Songlink, SongQuarters features dozens of solicited song placement opportunities in any…
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…
Superstar Universal Music Publishing A&R Pelle Lidell
Universal Music Publishing A&R Pelle Lidell is a legend in his own right. Having worked with superstar record producers like Bloodshy & Avant, Paul Rein, Anders Bagge and many others, the Swede has one of the very best track record in terms of songplugging and setting-up co-writes for…
Songlink Review
By David Goldstein
First published in 1993, Songlink (http://www.songlink.com) is one of the oldest and most established song tip sheets in the music business. Published by David Stark, Songlink distinguishes itself from many other song tip sheets in publishing only "solicited" music placement opportunities. A solicited lead is one that the record label…
Interview with Record Producer and Songwriter Michael Jay
We sat down with multi-platinum selling record producer and songwriter Michael Jay, and asked him about his career, his lucky breaks and greatest accomplishments. Eminem, Kylie Minogue, Celine Dion, Gloria Estefan, Mandy Moore and many more A-list artists have drawn on Michael Jay's songwriting and producing talents…
Intro to the Music Business - Part 3 of 18
Loyola University's George Howard is teaching another session of his course "Intro to the Music Business". Great free music business course for those that want to learn everything about the music business.