Project Daisy, a developing music streaming service, has been dubbed by its creators as the new standard for the future. But, until recently, much of…
The music products market is the unsung hero of the music industry. It is made up of manufacturers of instruments and instrument accessories, audio…
Roger Faxon has had a distinguished career in the entertainment industry. He was executive vice president/COO at LucasFilm, a founding partner of the film and…
As the music industry’s traditional structures continue to fall away, new models are building upon unsteady foundations. Some of the new companies that stepped onto…
Three years shy of his tenure with Live Nation, executive chairman Irving Azoff has called it quits. He was reportedly frustrated by the constraints of…
MIDEM is one of the largest conventions devoted to the state of the music industry. Hosted annually in the southern-coastal city of Cannes, France during…
Spotify recently signed a bundling deal with Orange-Switzerland’s “Orange Young” line of cell phones offered to customers under the age of twenty-eight. The Swiss deal…
The Super Bowl is a TV extravaganza that has a special place in American life. Viewers tune in regardless of the fortunes of their football…
In December 2012, Peter Spellman, head of Berklee’s Career Development Center, produced a listing of salary ranges for US music positions in performance, writing, business,…
It is surprising that, to date, most of the conversation around the music licensing challenges faced by new music services has centered on cost rather…
New music media companies are trying to lower intellectual property costs. Digital radio is calling for cheaper royalty fees and forcing the issue on a…
Spotify began as a Swedish online music streaming application that launched in Europe in October 2008. By integrating years of technology advances into their product,…
The touring industry’s top minds gathered at New York City’s Roosevelt Hotel in November for the Billboard Touring Conference and Awards. Over two days, panels…
When Pandora Internet radio entered the market with a strong initial public offering in 2011, a reporter from Bloomberg TV asked the Chairman and CEO,…