World of Online Music
This is a great infographic that outlines the world of online music.
Archive for: music industry
Elektra Records Founder Comments on YouTube, Blogs and the Future of Music
Jac Holzman is the founder of Elektra Records, which he founded all the way back in 1950. Holzman has seen many changes in the music industry and he has been able to adapt at all stages amazingly well.
As Elektra prepares to celebrate 60 years of discovering, making, recording and distributing music, Holzman takes a look back at the advent of digital music technology and a look forward into how new artists can market themselves online.
via Mashable.
Rob Zombie: The Music Industry Dropped the Ball a Long Time Ago and will Never Recover
Album sales have been in decline for a long time and the industry doesnt really know why this is happening. Here is what an album means to Rob Zombie and his thoughts on the music industry as a whole.
“Truthfully, when you make a new album … you go, ‘OK here’s eleven new songs, five of which we’ll never play live. And here’s the two or three singles that will always be in the set. I think they [the record industry] dropped the ball a long time ago and they’re never going to recover from it. Nobody wants to actually purchase music any more … it’s a weird time because the music scene is alive and well, it’s just the music buying public is not… A year from now, I don’t even know if they’ll be pressing CDs anymore or, if they do, stores won’t even bother carrying em.”
For the full interview check out Noisecreep.
Tunecore and Tommy Silverman ….. 80% of You Make Music that is “crap”?
There has been a very interesting discussion about Tommy Silverman and his rude comments about the music industry (unsigned artists specifically).
Yesterday, Tommy Silverman stated that:
“…80 percent of all records released are just noise — hobbyists. Some companies like TuneCore are betting on the long tail because they get the same $10 whether you sell one copy or 10,000,” he says. “Those are the people who are using TuneCore and iTunes to clutter the music environment with crap, so that the artists who really are pretty good have more trouble breaking through than they ever did before.
” He further, claims that “79,000 releases sold less than 100 copies last year.”
PRS’ Will Page On State Of UK Music Business
Will Page, Chief Economist at PRS lays out where the music business is at with some slides and charts. Recorded Thursday afternoon at Born to be Wide, Edinburgh.
The major declines are in the major labels, but overall the industry revenues are down because the whole industry is too focused on stopping illegal downloads instead of focusing on build innovation. I still find it very hard to believe anything the PRS reports.
via Andrew Dubber
Who Regulates The Music Industry? No One Really Knows
The longer I work in the music industry the more I find it lacks direction. For a long time now it has been run is wild west kind of way, and until now the old mans club of the major labels has been completely in control. In the last few years the music industry has been really taking a hit from press and media about how they aren’t really too sure where they are headed.
Music licensing and royalty collection is very confusing to the average artist, and I must admit that it seems as though there are many music organisation not really doing too much but seem to think they have control and rights. For example in the USA what organisations are collecting royalties for musicians for mechanical licenses and radio plays etc? Is this organisation the only company in charge of doing so? Are reports from this organisation in control of also creating official music charts that are based on real sales and not preempted sales?
These are just a few of the many questions that not only artists are asking but also the average person. The music industry needs a complete reform from the ground up and no one seems to even know where to start.
Garageband – Music Discovery and hosting
Garageband is a really interesting peer-review and music discovery site. Artists submit music to be hosted onsite, which is then sent to 20 other artists, who review it. If they like the song then it tends to rise up the GarageBand chart and get more plays, reviews and ratings. Reviewing songs earns you entry into competitions that the site runs for various prizes, giving a continual incentive to help out other producers and artists with advice and peer review, and provides the opportunity to get free stuff and good press for your music.
The Continuing Decline of the Music Industry
It can be a bit difficult to keep perspective when all you hear is bad news. The music industry may be in turmoil, but it always has been, and change breeds creativity rather than destruction. Here’s Frank Zappa more than 20 years ago, explaining just what was causing the decline of the music industry back then (and a bit about masturbation, for some reason). Given that so much great music has been made since then, and how diversity and innovation are flourishing more richly than ever before due to the internet, I have to raise an eyebrow when I hear about the industry’s decline.
Japans Internet Music Market Saw Healthy Growth in Q3
Japan’s Internet music market saw healthy growth in the third quarter of this year but a collapse in the once-mighty ringtone market led to mixed results for the cell phone sector of the country’s digital music industry, according to figures released on Friday.
Total downloads over the Internet and on cell phones totalled 118 million during the July to September period, down 3 percent compared to the same three months of 2007, while revenues grew 11 percent to ¥22 billion, the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) said. The group collects data from most of Japan’s major music publishers.
Growth was strong in the Internet download portion of the market where downloads jumped 30 percent to 10.6 million and revenue surged 49 percent to ¥2.3 billion. The relatively new music video download market more than doubled in size but was still small at 391,000 downloads.
Image
Your music’s perfect? There’s nothing more to do? Then it’s time to start planning your explosive entrance onto the world scene. Think about who you are, what image your music projects, how you want to succeed? Do you want to be Bob Dylan or The Chemical Brothers? Both are massive superstar acts, but with totally different images and vibes. What’s yours?
Your music should go a long way to helping you get this central image focused in your mind, but get it right, because everything else in your arsenal of self promotion will take a lead from this primal idea. Of course it helps if you’re hugely outgoing with bulletproof confidence (because it will take shots, guaranteed), but there’s room for everyone.
Indie star Cat Power started out gigging with her back to the crowd because her stage fright was too bad to let her look at her audience. Recognise your strengths and capitalise upon them – it’s easier than pretending to be something you’re not.
A strong image will make people believe in you, want to buy into your look and associate themselves with you. A poor image makes you look uncool and unprofessional. Look at the hundreds of sloppy band websites and myspace pages out there – this is often your first contact with a new listener, if you want them to like you it’s worth making the effort. Care about that first impression, it shows you care about yourself and your fans.
We can’t really help you dream up your image, but there are some things on the RouteNote tools page that should help you actuate it: sites to help you build a good looking myspace profile, guides to setting up your own website and to building widgets to put on your own and your fans myspace pages and websites, places to get t-shirts made.
