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Elon Musk Acquires David Bowie Songwriting Catalog Using Bitcoin, Plots “Live On Mars?” Hologram Concert
L4LM | Thursday, April 1st, 2021

Modern Renaissance man and billionaire global tech pioneer Elon Musk made a splash in the music publishing world on Thursda…[Read more]

Well, it is expected that Spotify will launch new types of mixes from time to time. They through their algorithms at the music and see what happens. As a scholar, with MusicID you can see the stream counts. You can work out whether they’re selecting the right music, in your opinion. Read more at Music Ally…[Read more]

Well, it is expected that Spotify will launch new types of mixes from time to time. They through their algorithms at the music and see what happens. As a scholar, with MusicID you can see the stream counts. You can work out whether they’re selecting the right music, in your opinion. Read more at Music Ally…[Read more]

Hi All,
A colleague of mine taught music management at the Sorbonne during the last 20 years. He is part of this free music industry education programme funded by the European Union and the EEA.
http://mmmproject.eu/
Just an FYI and you can share it, of course. I’m becoming a social media maven.

I worked at EMI last century, and my boss told me anecdotes about Bhaskar Menon. Of course he was known as the driving force behind Pink Floyd’s ‘Dark Side of the Moon which was in the Billboard charts for 741 weeks.

This is his moving New York Times obituary which came out yesterday.

Bhaskar Menon, Who Turned Capitol Records Around, Dies at 86…[Read more]

I love the French. But what’s with the French? Can’t get my mind around this. The pandemic is leading to more and more streaming around the world. Why not France? It is their national character? Well let’s read Music Ally and do the work to understand this.

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France recorded music revenues grew by just 0.1% in 2020

The 2020 figures are…[Read more]

Did you know that the top 500 artists on Spotify last year generated around $1.85bn in royalties from the streaming service – 37% of its overall payouts?Or did you know that the 286,000 DIY artists releasing through distributors generated $1.17bn of Spotify royalties last year – around 23.5% of the total?You do now. These are just a couple of th…[Read more]

I listened to this great seminar yesterday, by Helena Kosinski at MRC Data. She is particularly interesting on Radio and the relationship of the different streaming services. It is astonishing to me what a hold radio still has over music consumption. All those top 40 stations make it nice and easy to listen.

This is the link and you just have to…[Read more]

What does Eminem revenue look like in 2020?

8 Mile made three times the revenue of Music To Be Murdered By. Delve into granular data for precise insights. At MusicID Revenue we calculate the indicative revenue. For each alum and single, we apply the IFPI audited revenue in each country. It is very clever mathematics which Steve worked out. How do…[Read more]

This is a document we have from a few years ago. It shows the structure of a 20 course History of Rock overview.

Yes, it may seem a bit long, but I wanted to share it. Nothing like the detail of a course structure to make scholarship come alive. I just find this inspiring, and a professor at Tufts gave it to me as an example we could share. I…[Read more]

Just in from the great people at Music Ally.

Rumours that SoundCloud would become the first big music streaming service to adopt user-centric payouts were correct. The company has just announced plans for what it’s calling ‘fan-powered royalties’.

What’s really nice is that some other streaming companies are starting to do things with tip jars a…[Read more]