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ARTIST INTERVIEW: Wild Love
We sat down with Nashville’s pop/rock band Wild Love to learn about their roots, inspirations, playing this year’s Live On the Green Festival and more!
SP: You guys have been a band for awhile now. How has the band evolved since it’s days of opening for The Mowgli’s, We The Kings, Great Good Fine Ok, etc. […]
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It’s exciting to see the traditional album cycle erode away. But is it selfish of consumers?
Check out two perspectives on this topic — on one hand, the album cycle stunts creativity for artists, but on the other, it could protect them from consumer greed.
Read the full article HERE.
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Apple Music is challenging one of Spotify’s biggest competitive edges.
Apple Music has its perks. For one thing, their pay-per-play is almost double the Spotify rate. Spotify’s argument has always been “yeahhh but have you seen our analytics?” Well, on August 8th, Apple Music For Artists launched from its Beta bunker and is being promoted by Apple as the best in the market.
Read the full article […]
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“These are good times for the music industry, and it’s only fair that the writers who make it all happen get to join in the celebration.” – Chris Dampier, Head of Publishing at TuneCore
Turns out songwriters are also getting screwed out of live performance royalties. Streaming and live show income is on the rise. It only makes sense that songwriters should be getting what they’re owed. Read Dampier of Tunecore’s illuminating op-ed below.
Read the full article HERE.
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What’s Scooter Braun up to?
The Big Machine acquisition by Scooter Braun is so much more than the Taylor Swift-Justin Bieber-Scooter’s wife drama. If this new deal closes successfully, Braun’s private LLC Ithaca Holdings will automatically become one of the largest independent music companies on the planet.
Read some predictions about what this deal could really mean, how Atlas publishing is […]
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Fake streams are not fake news.
In fact, they could be costing artists millions of dollars a year. Louis Posen, founder of the California label Hopeless Records, says that his “sources” “think that three to four percent of global streams are illegitimate streams…[which is] around $300 million in potential lost revenue moved from legitimate streams to illegitimate, illegal streams.”
Read the full article […]
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ARTIST INTERVIEW: Teddy Rose
SP: What age did you decide to go for it as a rapper? Was it scary/exciting/both?
Teddy: Music has always been apart of my life since I can remember. It’s been a mixture of emotions. You have your exciting moments, and some moments are a little more overwhelming than others, but it’s all part of the […]
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LISTEN: our CEO Michael Sloane on the Freshmen Founders podcast.
Our fearless leader Michael Sloane shared his origin story and shared his thoughts on digital marketing and the streaming era on EvaMore’s podcast Freshmen Founders.
From Belmont University (to the University of Kentucky to… back to Belmont) Sloane shares how he helped Taylor Swift build out her Amazon store, his experience in digital strategy and branding at Big Machine Label Group, […]
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ARTIST INTERVIEW: Canaan Cox
SP: What’s been your favorite song to release in the past couple of years? Why was it your favorite?
Canaan: “Greener.” It was one of those songs that I had the punch line for for quite some time but hadn’t put pen to paper. So when the creativity struck, this one didn’t take more than 10 […]
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The streaming era placed a lot of power into the hands of consumers. But is this beneficial in the long run?
When “casual” listeners put on a playlist in the background, they became more valuable than actual, engaged fans. Read about how this paradox is affecting the industry and how to potentially fix the problems it’s causing.
Read the full article HERE.
