Score: Music Industry News
Score: Music Industry News
Beyoncé’s ‘Homecoming’ documentary: 5 things we learned
From revelations about the star’s difficult pregnancy to intimate rehearsal footage, the new film delves deep into the making of Beychella. – by Brittany Spanos / Rolling Stone
Profile interview: Scooter Braun
Meet the man who gave the world Justin Bieber. Scooter Braun is a veritable hitmaker — and he started with a 12-year-old nobody singing R&B covers in Stratford, Ontario. (An excerpt from Amos Barshad’s ‘No One Man Should Have All That Power’.) – by Amos Barshad / BuzzFead.News
Free Amazon streaming service now live via Alexa in the United States
The move underscores Amazon’s growing power in the music market, as a distributor that can afford to discount music as a loss-leader to support its core retail business. That’s a luxury Spotify doesn’t have, as its shareholders pressure the music-focused public company to turn a profit. – by Tim Ingham / Music Business Worldwide
Why we need fairer alternatives to Spotify
A few weeks ago a tweet by Gwenllian from one of my favourite emerging bands Adwaith sparked a debate on whether Spotify is a fair platform for musicians. “Mad how Spotify works.” She tweeted. “We buy gear to be able to play, we write songs, we pay for recording/producing/mastering, we pay for PR, we pay to get music onto Spotify (This all adds up to 3k/ 4k if not more) and then they turn round and give us literally pennies in return.” – by Bill Cummings / God is in the TV
Smart speakers: Why your voice is a major battle in music
Using voice to sift through and access music may be a relatively new idea, but it’s brought with it an immense technological challenge that streaming companies, record labels and machine-learning start-ups are all reckoning with. Proper use of this new interface and underlying metadata can mean the difference between sinking and staying afloat on the smart speaker medium. The time has come to lay new groundwork for the future of music consumption. – by Peter Rubenstein / BBC
Billie Eilish’s debut announces the arrival of a new kind of teen pop star
But it’s just a small taste of what the 17-year-old will do. – by Carl Wilson / Slate
Despite growth, music labels warn: ‘We should never be complacent.’
Four consistent years of global growth is something to swell the record industry’s heart, and the 9.7% rise in 2018 means it is approaching double-digit growth – a big change from the double-digit decline that defined the first decade of this millennium. – by Eamonn Forde / Music:)Ally
Why RECORDS CEO Barry Weiss is betting on country – and unproven talent – in his latest act
How can the little guys compete with the major record companies’ flagship labels, which are raking in streaming cash and bidding talent prices into the stratosphere? Barry Weiss, co-founder/CEO of the four-year-old startup RECORDS, now a joint venture with Sony Music, is using his old-school playbook: trusting his ears, betting on acts early and going country in a hip-hop world. – by Hannah Karp / Billboard
Tom Zutaut had a good thing going, far from the maddening crowd of the Sunset Strip. However, all that changed in late March. Thanks to the March 21 release of ‘The Dirt’ on Netflix, a film version of Neil Strauss’s 2001 biography on Mötley Crüe, which features Saturday Night Live’s Pete Davidson playing Zutaut, the low-key and affable former label exec has a full voicemail inbox, and is busy juggling interview requests and business propositions. – by Katherine Turman / Billboard
20 songs bringing conscious hip-hop back
Hip-hop has always been politically charged, but with racial and social divisions becoming ever more fractured, conscious hip-hop is making a return. – by JQuan / UDiscoverMusic
Copyright: U.S Copyright Office launches strategic plan 2019-2023
The U.S. Copyright Office released today its strategic plan that sets priorities of the Office for the next five years. The plan describes how the Office will streamline and improve the efficiency of services while actively participating in discussions, both national and international, on ways to further transform the Office to better meet the needs of a modern digital society. – by U.S. Copyright Office
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A must-have resource for anyone looking to place music into films, television, video games, and other visual media.
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The music industry’s only contact directory specifically focused on A&R executives at the major and top independent labels in Los Angeles, New York, Nashville, London, Chicago, Atlanta, Vancouver, Toronto, and Sydney.
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The Looking List
April 2019 Edition
The Looking List is a complete list of every record label’s artists who are looking for songs, co-writes or collaborations for their upcoming projects with their contact information.
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