The Artist Compensation Storm
As sure as dark clouds gather in hurricane season, a storm is brewing around artist compensation. Art and technology are at odds. However, it wasn’t always that way. From the advent… Read More →
Hear-Like-Buy: Why Spotify Is Marketing, Not Commerce
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- by Wampus
You can’t read an article in the music press without tripping over somebody complaining about Spotify royalties. You’ve heard the chorus: Spotify is destroying what’s left of the CD market.… Read More →
Spotify: 3 Tips for Artists
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- Tags: amazon, artist, artistic identity, choice, digital audio, digital media, facebook, freeware, identity, indie artist, indie artists, media technology, mistrust, mixtape, multimedia, music, music distribution, music sharing, music streaming, playlists, recording artist, spotify, stream, streaming music, tips •
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- by Wampus
Depending on whom you ask, the music-streaming service Spotify is either the savviest music-sharing platform ever or the canniest artist-fleecing apparatus ever. Either way, it just might be the future of… Read More →
Music Streaming Royalties — Crumbs?
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- Tags: computing, Crumbs, digital audio, digital media, freeware, music, music download services, music industry, music streaming, music streaming service, napster, online music stores, pandora, pandora radio, rhapsody, royalties, royalty, Share Your Music, spotify, stream, streaming media, streaming service, virtual communities, web 2.0 •
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- by Wampus
Music streaming services such as Spotify, Rhapsody, Pandora, and Napster are sharing your music with the masses — and you haven’t had to do a thing to make it happen. And… Read More →