(UPDATED) Earlier this week, blogger Paul Resnikoff of Digital Music News used isolated statistics obtained from TuneCore to prove an oversimplified claim that "99.875% of Tunecore artists are making less than minimum wage". According to DMN, the solution for developing artists is "a day job or subsidizing parents to keep the ship afloat."
TuneCore CEO Jeff Price responds: Before I say another word, yes, I know I'm rising to the bait. I know this response means more eyeballs for Digital Music News – a semi-legitimate music industry blog that tends to be sensational to drive eyeballs. I know that Paul Resnikoff’s constant personal attacks on TuneCore and me are a goad and good for his web traffic. Okay, sometimes the only way to refute a gambit is to accept it. If this means more people paying attention to Paul's site and generating revenue for his ad-supported business model, I guess he wins that round.
The music subscription service Spotify reports it is bringing apps to its desktop software, an add-on model that may extend to its mobile strategy. The music service will soon allow users to add to their player/library software apps.
For those of you who follow the Grammy's, below is a list of this year's nominees from the only category worth caring about. I still don't get their qualification calendar, mixing releases from two different calendar years. In fact, it irritates me so much that the Grammy's have become irrelevant to me....but that's me.
Several years ago, Dr. Steven Sirr decided to marry his two passions: CT scans and violins. But not just any violin — a 307-year-old Stradivarius, one of the most prized instruments in the world. Sirr has collaborated with a few violin makers to build their own Stradivarius using the scans.
The music service has scheduled a press event to announce a 'new direction' for the company, and the theories abound about what's coming. We'll bring you the news as it happens. Read this blog post by Greg Sandoval on Media Maverick.
To make the monthly minimum wage of $1,160, a musician needed to sell 143 self-pressed compact discs. To make that from Spotify, they would need people to stream their songs more than 4 million times -- not humanly possible unless you happen to be Lady Gaga.
This article expresses Mr. O'brien's point of view about if using Spotify or not, harms artists. Mr. O'brien explained how Spotify is actually creating awareness, bringing back all the youth who did not buy music anymore, by providing them a new way of being customers. I think this supports my topic by showing how this service is changing the industry itself little by little by re introducing the investment in the music industry.
Here’s the first reliable news we’ve had in some time on the sequel to Paramount’s 2009 Star Trek. Studios have been doing some release date shifting today and with Sony pushing Roland Emmerich’s delayed Singularity back to November 2013, Paramount has moved to grab the vacated May 17 2013 date for Star Trek 2.
Music service doesn't say how many subscribers are in the U.S. vs. international, but its growth is notable. Read this blog post by Don Reisinger on The Digital Home.
British composer Benson Taylor has been steadily making a mark on Hollywood, his music being heard in a huge array of TV shows and film trailers—and (The New Sound of #Hollywood - http://t.co/UIb9DPC4...
Shazam and performing rights organization BMI have exchanged intellectual property again, this time in the other direction. Shazam has reacquired the audio recognition technology and related patents it sold to BMI in 2005.
Are you one of those folks who still buys music on vinyl? Well, better make some shelf space because "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" soundtrack is coming and it's fucking massive.
Twitter-happy Trent Reznor teased fans a bit more today, tweeting "Working with @rob_sheridan and Neil Kellerhouse on a cool package to house the Dragon Tattoo soundtrack's SIX vinyls." Whoa wait, 6 LPs? There's a very good reason for that. Earlier this month, Reznor revealed that he's created a ton of music for the movie, tweeting "It's clocking in at two hours and forty-some odd minutes! We've lost our minds. Clear some disk space!" If that jibes with what we've heard about the running time for the movie, it pretty much means the score will be constant throughout and ever changing or Reznor has created a boatload of work that won't be used.
Grooveshark wanted to use unlicensed music to build a huge online following and then deal with the labels, according to company e-mails entered into court records. Read this blog post by Greg Sandoval on Media Maverick.
The Oscar-winning composer of Up, Super 8, Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol and John Carter on how he broke out of videogames, the deeper meaning of his new scores and much, much more!
“Hugo is very detailed in its use of motifs and themes,” says Shore. “It’s an older style as we know, but Hugo had a pretty traditional type of approach to using themes for characters and objects. Marty really got into it. It’s such a nice way to work.
We’ve already covered the keynote speech at tonight’s Music TechPitch 4.5 event at EMI’s headquarters in London, where EVP of strategy and insight Jim Brady explained why a major label is so keen to be working with external startups and developers. Next it was time for some startups to pitch their wares.
Eight were taking part: DizzyJam, Hitlantis, Hooolp (that’s three ‘o’s), Mobile Backstage, Isophonics, Seevl, Webdoc and Xylyx. They were presenting to a panel of judges including representatives from Bootlaw / Pinsent Masons, EMI, Rockabox Media, Eden Ventures, TheNextWeb and Doughty Hanson Technology Ventures.
Braid is a puzzle-platformer, drawn in a painterly style, where you can manipulate the flow of time in strange and unusual ways. From a house in the city, journey to a series of worlds and solve puzzles to rescue an abducted princess. The Soundtrack is now just $5.99 on Steam.
Bastion, the colorful and enigmatic video game from independent developer Supergiant Games, has been nominated for multiple Spike awards including Best Independent Game.
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