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>>> Other than realizing that my son is one heck of a negotiator, there were a few other thoughts I had that I think might help you and your band in those moments of panic and doubt though the up’s and down’s of your music career.
>>> Josh fronts the group Secrets in Stereo and in just two years has made some impressive inroads by using social media (blogs) to bond with a tight knit community of fans who support him. What is interesting about Josh is the fact that he makes a lion’s share of his money from TV/Film placements and not from live shows.
>>> I simply feel that the only entity who should message any band's fans is that band themselves. So to me Cheap Trick buying information on Cheap Trick's fans is okay, but others may not be.
>>> We aim to revolutionize how people pay and get paid for content on the internet. Come, join and show the world that good content is worth some coins out of your pocket.
>>> Some of the important and perhaps surprising trends that Topspin has discovered include the importance of physical goods to many fans and their love of premium offerings. More than half of the transactions in the Topspin study are under $10, but they only accounted for 17% of overall revenue. Rather the majority of revenue for most artists came from items priced $25 and over that included physical items.
>>> There are other factors besides payment terms that you need to consider when choosing a distributor. Which stores they deliver to, how frequently they pay royalties to artists, data reporting/analytics, reputation, reliability, and promotional services are all important factors to think about.
>>> Josh zat echter niet bij de pakken neer en stelde voor zélf op zoek te gaan naar een antwoord. Zijn speurtocht heeft al met al ruim een maand geduurd (applaus!) en de resultaten deelt hij deze week op EHPO (hulde!). Hij achterhaalde de kosten, bekeek, probeerde en beoordeelde applicaties en platforms in verschillende categorieën:
>>> “…a True Fan is not a possession. It’s a relationship. As such, it grows and changes, and people come and go as you grow, and as they grow and their lives change.” - Brian, I Fight Dragons
>>> n this second blogpost (read part I) on the music industry I present two of the examples of innovative business models in this area, which I presented during my keynote talk: Sellaband and Spotify. Both companies were actually present during my presentation.
>>> Get over the idea that your success is equated with selling the right to listen, or selling control over when people listen. Relinquish the opportunity to make money by controlling who can listen and when. That’s gone. It’s over. It would be like a bakery selling the right to sniff the fresh bread or a wine maker selling the right to look at the cool label. It’s now a public good, something you see as you walk by. What you can sell, what you better be able to sell, is intimacy. It’s interactions in public. Souvenirs. Limited things of value. Experiences. Memories. People will pay for those things, IF: your art is actually great and if you make it possible for them to buy them.
>>> British band Scars On 45 recently signed with Atlantic Records thanks to investment from fans. Could this be the future of the music industry?
>>> Als de Eurosonic Noorderslag conferentie 2010 één ding duidelijk maakt, is dat naast de ‘overname’ van de muziekindustrie door de internet- en sociaal netwerkpioniers er wel weer eens mag worden nagedacht over de vraag: ‘Waarom doen we het?’ in plaats van even blind als enthousiast voort te razen in de ‘wat-is-er-allemaal-mogelijk’ Express van digitale verworvenheden.
>>> Getting back to my series of posts on understanding economics when scarcity is removed from some goods, I wanted to address the ridiculousness of the "can't compete with free" statements that people love to throw out. If we break down the statement carefully, anyone who says that is really saying that they can't compete at all. The free part is actually meaningless -- but the zero is blinding everyone.
>>> In this first part of our exclusive interview with Radiohead guitarist Ed O'Brien, he looks back on the band's ground-breaking release of "In Rainbows." Releasing the album directly to the public without a label "completely rejuvenated us a a band," says O'Brien, by creating a direct link between the group's recordings and its fans for the very first time. As one of the world's most accomplished musicians warns, "Record companies, take note!"
>>> Where does this leave the average independent artist? At the beginning. Every artist wants to know how they can make music, make money and survive to write and play another day. Here, in no particular order, is a list of possible income streams.
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