We all know recorded music sales are dying. It’s a Titanic size plank that sales have been marching down for years, but eventually they’ll fall off. But we’re not there yet. Last year, Americans bought 257 million albums – an 11% drop from 2013. That’s still a hefty...
Just a quick look at album sales will tell you that increasingly we live in a music world where the single song is king and the album is feeling more and more unnecessary. According to the RIAA, album sales fell 11% last year after falling about the same amount the...
Group published pictures of fighters watching a pyre of drums burning Release statement claiming destroyed because instruments are ‘unIslamic’ Images are the latest move in a propaganda war fought by ISIS in Libya Came back into the international...
Not only are American recording artists not paid for radio play, but the US is the only first world country to deny them this right. While a UK artist will collect performance royalties worldwide (ex-US) through PPL, American artists lose out on the same international...
The technology exists, so why not use it? Effective immediately, Tumblr has started blocking uploads of unlicensed music, while suggesting legal alternatives to users. Songs are identified using fingerprinting IDs. The move is part of a major shift in how...
Illustration by Justin Currie You didn’t have to look too far to spot the action at Clive Davis‘ pre-Grammy gala on Feb. 7. Ground zero was table 108, where Apple CEO Tim Cook, senior vp Internet software and services Eddy Cue, iTunes vp Robert Kondrk and...
