Tag: music

Start-ups, Music, and Copyright Avoidance

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Bas Grasmeyer for Hypebot: What is needed is a Startup License that lets startups quickly and flexibly license music from the majors and largest indies for a set duration. After this duration, startups would still have to negotiate, but at least they’ve got their products figured out and investors will have a better understanding of what the business is potentially worth. The license should allow startups to opt in or out of territories. If you want to do UK-only, fine. If you want to pay more and do something global, it’s possible. A global startup music license would do tremendous

All About The Bass, The Stream, And The Revenue

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Alright then, a quick music business question, If you co-wrote ‘All About The Bass’ how much do you think, over the song’s lifetime, you would have earned from streaming music services? Try $5,679. “I’ve never heard a songwriter complain about radio royalties as much as streaming royalties,” Kadish said. “That was the real issue for us, like 1 million streams equals $90. For a song like ‘All About That Bass,’ that I wrote, which had 178 million streams. I mean $5,679? That’s my share. That’s as big a song as a songwriter can have in their career and No. 1

When An Old Cricketer Leaves The Crease

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Seymour Quigley: We weren’t related, and we weren’t close friends; I can’t tell you what motivated him, what kind of a husband or father he was, or how many sugars he had in his tea. But the simple fact is that John Peel, who passed away ten years ago this month, saved my life. The internet may have allowed more music to be heard by more people, and reduced the barrier of entry, but we still need a curator.

When Records Were Made To Not Sell

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The delightful tale of a US tax loophole that saw vinyl being pressed , never sold, and all the costs recouped. [the producer] was hooked up with some Beverly Hills accountant that was doing the write-off records. I think the investors were putting up around $15,000 per album. They [the producers] spent about $5,000 to produce [an album] and kept the balance. I think I heard the that the investors got a $250,000 write off as if they spent that much to promote and produce the album. And as you said on your website, during that time period there were a

The SXSW Music Sampler for 2014 is now available

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Over on SXSW Baby!, the annual 80 track sampler of the SXSW Music Festival has just been posted. Covering a wide range of musical styles, sounds, genres, and performers all playing in Austin this week and next, it brings together YouTube videos, Soundcloud clips, and other media in one handy file for you to unzip and pop on your current ‘device with an MP3 player’. DOWNLOAD the SXSW Baby! “Best of SXSW 2014″ sampler Mega.co.nz link (314 Mb) I wanted to create some great moments when listening to the songs, to have the music flow into each other, to have

Some festive music? Here’s this year’s Christmas Rocktacular!

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[audio:http://archive.org/download/TpnRockFriday20131120256Christmas2013/tpn_rock_friday_20131120_256_Christmas2013.mp3] MP3 File – Show Notes – Rock Show RSS Feed Every year I look out some great Christmas music online, avoiding the big name artists and million sellers you can hear on the radio and TV. They all feature in the ‘Christmas Rocktacular’ podcast which you can stream online, or download for free. Here’s this year’s festive collection. Under Your Christmas Tree, by Jericko Rose (Jericko Rose on Reverb Nation). O Come All Ye Faithfull, by Geoff Smith (thegeoffsmith.com). Christmas In A Cup, by Erica Sunshine Lee (ericasunshinelee.com). Broke The Bank This Christmas, by Mitch Benn (mitchbenn.com). St. Benedicts