Universal, Warner Bros. and Sony BMG have been holding back DRM-free license approval from iTunes while extending that approval to Amazon.com and some other startups. Only EMI has offered its music in DRM-free, MP3 format to both vendors. This marketplace inequality appears to be a punitive measure against Apple, for refusing to agree to label [...]
This blogger thinks it is bad news that only 25% of the top touring acts of 2007 were under 30.
Attempts to promote and distribute albums online without the backing of a major record company shows that labels do have value.
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Universal Music will release a Rolling Stones album via a one-project deal. The band has been with EMI since 1991, but Billboard reports that their deal expires this spring.The new album, due in March, is the soundtrack to the band’s concert film Shine A Light. Following in April is the Martin Scorsese directed movie, [...]
The New Yorker’s Sasha Frere-Jones gives a quick run down of the “Balkanized” music business.
Statement from Neil Portnow, President/CEO of The Recording Academy, regarding the 50th Annual GRAMMY® Awards:
“Today the producers of the 50th Annual GRAMMY® Awards requested an interim agreement from the WGA for the telecast on February 10. The Recording Academy® remains hopeful that there will be a quick and positive response.
“The Academy is similarly pleased [...]
On any given day, someone who works in the country music industry might have to navigate their way around gherms, speed bumps, diesel sniffers and even giant naked people.
The music industry, and Music Row in particular, speaks a language all its own, peppered with an amusing array of names, terms and expressions only true [...]
Several Music Row notables are teaching USN Evening Classes this spring including Marcus Hummon, Billy Kirsch, and Tom Kimmel on songwriting, and Chris Farren on publishing. Other helpful offerings range from Networking for Chickens to online marketing.Classes, each of which typically last one to three nights, are available from January – April 2008 and popular [...]
What is the peak period for a songwriter’s creativity?
