It is not easy to be a musician. Success is often hard to come by for artists, managers, and A&Rs alike. It takes hard…
Introduction In a post-lockdown world, live music has allowed people the opportunity to reconnect with their communities, and year-by-year attendance is steadily rising. Concert attendance…
(Willy Sanjuan / Invision via AP) The recent arrest and charges against Sean “Diddy” Combs have brought the music…
Abstract This qualitative study explores the experiences of visually impaired music entrepreneurs in navigating the post-COVID multimodal creative economy. Through in-depth interviews with Matthew Weihmuller,…
Over the last couple of decades, advancements in the entertainment industry have fundamentally changed both society’s perceived value of the arts, and the ways in…
Recent news has been overtaken with song theft cases, from claims that Dua Lipa stole “Levitating” to Ed Sheeran’s “Shape of You” getting called out…
Almost overnight, Chukwuka Ekweani’s (better known by his stage name, CKay) “Love Nwantiti” became the soundtrack of a TikTok original dance craze.[i] The hit song…
By Claire Donzelli We are constantly bombarded with stories of musicians who achieved success early in life. The legendary Stevie Wonder signed with Motown records…
In the era of the Internet, it is still difficult to obtain information about the ownership and control of musical rights and works. This can…
Apple and Google, the two companies that have most changed the fortunes of the music industry, are shifting their weight in preparation for the future…
For more than a year, Twitter has been addressing music. Its 241m monthly users are closer now than ever before to bridging the divide between…
Information is changing the music industry; not only in the ways we consume and discover music, but as well in the ways companies are arming…
SoundCloud is one of the leading sources of audio sharing on the net, with 250 million active monthly users up from just ten million two…
Jim Vellutato is Vice President of A&R for Sony/ATV Music Publishing in Los Angeles. He is one of the most recognized executives in the field.…