Check out the article “Musician, Market Yourself” in the New York Times by Brad Stone:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/22/technology/internet/22music.html?_r=1&scp=6&sq=%20brad%20stone&st=cse
For those indie artists committed to bypassing a major label deal and doing their recording and marketing, Polyphonic is worth looking into. Formed by music industry trio Adam Driscoll (Mama Group co-CEO), Terry McBride (Nettwerk CEO) and Brian Message (ATC & [...]
The backs of business models supporting online music sites like Pandora and AccuRadio were able to straighten up as royalty payments to SoundExchange were agreed upon by artists and labels after 2-years of dark cloud debate. There’s still the 30-day period during which webcasters can opt-to-adopt the new deal or either resort to the Copyright [...]
Portions of the map Pandora has been using to construct its vision of becoming a truly global provider somehow got torn off as its service became quiet outside the U.S. borders. In reaction to the silence, listeners have sought connectivity through Fine Tune, Groove Shark and Last.fm while others are using TOR-toise/Foxy Proxy, accepting its [...]
Put whatever corporate Natta-isms you want on the message (“to transform and refine our international growth strategy”), cutting 66% of its international staff and closing four of its international offices means that MySpace has to finally confront its inability to be a leader in social networking and not skirt the issue by placing blame on [...]
Neilsen SoundScan data presented at NARM was distressing, to say the least: of the 105,575 albums released last year, less than a thousand sold more that 25,000 copies. And, sales of new releases dropped 18%. The 50,000 digital-only albums racked up less than 2% of all the newly-released album sales.
Indie artists tallying up their recording, [...]
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