Category archives: Featured Story

You know when you go into a restaurant, and the waitress seats you and asks if she can get you started with some drinks while you take a moment to look over the menu, and you say “I’ll have a Coke,” and they say “is Pepsi ok?” and you just go ahead and settle because […]

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Merle Haggard died today (April 6th) after battling double pneumonia. Last week, country music legend Merle Haggard was forced to cancel two weekend concerts as a result of his ill-health.  Haggard’s son Ben Haggard posted a message on Twitter stating that his dad was ‘still recovering from pneumonia’ and that it ‘takes awhile to get back […]

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And the latest inextricably complicated royalty mess featuring legal warfare over unpaid royalties? For that, Digital Music News brings you to the US District Courthouse in Los Angeles, where ABS Entertainment is battling CBS Radio over its use of pre-1972 classic recordings.  ABS says CBS isn’t authorized to play the recordings given a lack of federal copyright protection, […]

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But Instagram has a solution… They’ll re-order your feed for you. Instagram has now become one of the most important social media platforms, boasting more than 400 million active users.  But it also plays a significant role in the music industry, with half of the top 10 accounts being musicians. In order to emphasize the relationship between […]

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In the music industry, streaming music users are finding it difficult to get entire catalogs in one place, thanks to a rise in platform-specific exclusives.  In the television and film industries, this is an even bigger problem: according to data reported by Netflix itself, the platform’s overall catalog has diminished nearly 32% since January of […]

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Here’s another critical thing to consider when strategizing your release: genre.  Because genre audiences are oftentimes wildly different when it comes to how they listen to music, all of which can have giant ramifications for how they pay for music (or don’t pay for it). Here’s a breakdown of what percentage of revenues each genre makes from different […]

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Seven years ago, I decided to try to make music reviews on YouTube, using a silly gimmick where I’d play piano in silhouette. And it went great! …for the first couple weeks. A month into this project, my fourth video got deleted; apparently Warner Music Group didn’t like me using footage of Jason Derulo. I […]

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Please note: After getting a very serious phone call this afternoon from Tidal’s attorneys at ReedSmith LLP, I’d like to emphasize that this is an April Fools’ joke.  Thanks! Jay Z is now liquidating his ownership in Tidal with plans for a complete shutdown and sale, according to details confirmed by multiple sources and a (now deleted) […]

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