MOG initially started their service as a music news aggregator, but over the last 6 months or more they have been focused on building out their music streaming service. Thus, they are now trying to diversify and give their music news service its own identity and have now launched MOGMusicNetwork.com.
MOG CEO David Hyman says, “We wanted to make it as easy as possible for people to access the best content on our growing network of 1,300 blogs and also give brands an opportunity to do some really creative things. MOGMusicNetwork.com was an obvious solution to best serve both consumers and brands.”
There are a lot of distributors out there that claim they are unique because they can help you get your music in the charts. Some of the distributors even charge money to do this. Most bands don’t even realise that they can do this all themselves for FREE! Any distributor that charges for a service like this is simply just ripping you off.
Here is a step by step guide on how to get your music chart eligible for the UK.
Ensure your release complies with the ‘Chart Rules’. There are rules that apply to physical formats, and rules for digital formats. If your release does not adhere to the chart rules it will not be eligible for any of the published charts, although OCC will still track sales of the product providing it has been registered correctly.
Full copies of the chart rules (singles and albums) are available to download from here
Obtain a catalogue number and barcode for each of your physical formats. We can only track sales of those products with a unique barcode (UPC codes are provided FREE on RouteNote).
Obtain an ISRC (International Standard Recording Code) for each of your individual digital tracks and a digital barcode for each of your digital formats. We can only track sales of those downloads with an ISRC and digital single or album formats with a digital barcode.
Finally you need to head to the PPL Repertoire site: http://www.ppluk.com/repertoire. Once there you need to register and upload your music to the PPL Repertoire database. Contact PPL Repertoire Database via email on chart@ppluk.com or by telephone on 020 7534 1122 if you have any problems.
Thats it!
Make sure that you never pay any money to distributors for this service, because anyone can get access to the PPL Repertoire database for FREE.
Universal Music Group has launched its latest iPhone app, in partnership with the UK’s Official Charts Company. The app is called TimeWheel and is a very simple music time machine.
TimeWheel is a database of Top 40 singles and albums since 1955.
The app has also roped in UMG artists like Lady Gaga, Tinchy Stryder, Kelly Rowland, Take That, and Chase & Status to contribute their own lists of favourite songs from the past 55 years.
The app naturally ties into the iTunes Store for users to buy songs (not just Universal artists).
Here’s something fun to settle you into both your Monday and indeed your week; a rap battle between two people who seem confused as to what a microphone is.
Astonishingly this was filmed in 2005, which makes one wonder what the hell kind of equipment these jokers were shooting their production with and who on earth was funding this obvious community project.
This is one of the most absurd videos I’ve ever seen, and hope it brings you as much joy as it did for me.
I’m going to start this with an apology for what is going to be a fairly London centric post, however this does apply to people in all cities around the world. It just happens that I am from London and live in London.
A service I regularly use for hunting down music is the rather excellent website citysounds.fm, a site focused on local music communities. If you don’t know what it is; you select your city and citysounds.fm will present you with the latest things uploaded to soundcloud by people living in that city. Simple idea, very useful.
On the right hand side of the page for each city you can see how many people are supporting that city, and here comes the London centric part of this post; why the hell does London have less fans that Berlin? We are a much larger city and have a considerably better music scene. I like Berin for the record, this isn’t some kind of racist rant, but come on, we can do better than some Germans, can’t we?
If you’re not from London you should take a look at your own city anyway, although the community of this website has to exist externally, it has the potential to be a great tool.
After my post last week on Stop Motion Music I was emailed by a number of readers with links to things similar.
Like I said last week, I’m a total sucker for this kind of youtube nonsense and as much as I’d love to post everything I ever find, I don’t think there’s enough space on the internet for it.
Today I would like to share with you something I first got sent around 6 months ago, but was kindly reminded of by an emailer called Lukas (thank you).
Kutiman became a bit of a youtube sensation for his project Thru You, where he took clips of youtube videos and edited them together, making one beautiful mess of a video.
Here is my favourite of his efforts. Please check out his website for more.
Excellent news for Morrissey fans this morning. I wonder how often you can say that?
The indisputably best singer and front-man of all time has given his fans more reasons to swoon at everything he does by announcing that he will be releasing a digitally re-mastered version of his single ‘Everyday is like Sunday’.
The reissue coincides with Morrissey’s announcement earlier this year of a special 20 year anniversary version of his 1990 album Bona Drag. If you didn’t already know this you can read more about it here.
To get your Friday off to a suitably dismal start, I have included the original video to ‘Everyday is like Sunday’.
Last night SoundCloud announced their new Remix app, which they’ve inventively named SoundCloud-Remix.
The app is aimed at websites hosting remix competitions, something which SoundCloud has been used for a great deal thus far. The new app allows the competition host to customise how artists will upload their submissions and allow greater social interaction with how you would vote on submissions. You find out more from SoundCloud by clicking here, or by watching the video below.
Do you know who Zoot Woman are? If yes, then congratulations, if no, don’t worry, neither did I until about 5 minutes ago when their new single popped up on soundcloud’s facebook page.
Having heard the new single I thought it best to share it with you. I rather like it and am currently in the process of listening to all of their album’s on spotify, maybe you could do the same on this wet Thursday?
The single ‘Blue Sea’ is taken from the album Things are what they used to be which can be purchased by clicking here.
Songkick has just partnered with YouTube to offer concert suggestions to users. Songkick is a live music recommendation and discovery service which helps users find out when certain bands are playing in their area.
Sitting within the re-launched youtube.com/music site, Songkick will power concert recommendations in the ‘Events Near You’ section which draws on a user’s IP address to pinpoint their location. Sometimes this becomes an issue when your IP is located at a completely different part of the country (which we found that our IP was in Oxford, not in Cornwall!).
Songkick CEO Ian Hogarth, “From our point of view, this is one step closer to making it incredibly easy to find local concerts, whether you’re on Songkick or on another site discovering music […] It’s kind of early days, but it seems like a very significant number of people are coming through, finding out more about the show, buying tickets, etc.”
