Not too long ago, recorded music sales were a dependable source of income for labels and their artists. Earnings from live music shows added substantially…
Music Business Worldwide (MBW), a fellow publication, estimates that Mumford & Sons, the acclaimed British alternative-rock band, lost a minimum of three million dollars to…
One of the biggest problems the music industry faces today is knowing which labels and publishers, performers, songwriters and producers own the rights to songs…
iTunes has recently given independent artists and others the choice of selling singles for 69¢. Prior to this, and since variable pricing was introduced close…
In early June Berklee announced the beginning of the Open Music Initiative (OMI), a collaboration between the Berklee Institute of Creative Entrepreneurship, the M.I.T. Media…
China, the second largest economy in the world, should be a beacon for the future of the music industry. Communism has given way to a…
Summertime is the time of year to unwind under a 95-degree sun. For music fans especially, summertime is about enjoying music festivals. The nostalgia for…
In recent times, artists/songwriters, who once made their living recording and writing songs, have been severely affected by the slump in royalty revenue coming from…
There has been a lot of excitement around streaming lately. At the end of last year, Apple launched their own service that amassed over ten…
Modern Christian music, i.e. contemporary Christian, Gospel, Worship, and Christian Rock, may be an afterthought for some analysts and secular consumers in North America. This…
Last year American Idol experienced its lowest viewership since the show began, down to eight million from a peak of thirty-eight million fourteen seasons before.…
Coverage of music industry news tends to follow, as this Journal does, the for profit sector. Corporate market leaders, like Apple, Spotify, and Live Nation,…
One could do worse than write a history of the business from the pages of Billboard’s Power 100 rankings. This year the venerable music industry…
The recent and sudden collapse of SFX is a sobering lesson for the live music market. The business has many intermediaries and is perforce regional…