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MTP: How was the audience reaction for your first 30 days on the I Respect Music petition campaign? Blake Morgan: It’s honestly––and very happily––been above and beyond anything we could have estimated or ever hoped for. If you ask anyone who’s been working with me on this, they’ll tell…
Artists’ Pay for Radio Play – Rally and Concert (sponsored by the Content Creators Coalition)Date: Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Time: 6pm – 9pm
Venue: Le Poisson Rouge (158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY 10012, ph: 212- 505-3474)
Ticket: free
Genre: rally and music
So Bruno Mars was paid $0 for his Super Bowl performance. Some are up in arms about that. I’m not. Continue reading
How little does the music industry pay artists? Shockingly little. Spotify, the dominant streaming music source in the U.S., is leaking money. They reportedly dole out 70 per cent of their revenue to royalties, and while that number seems high, consider this: each song stream pays an artist between one-sixth and one-eight of a cent. […]
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Flat or declining revenues at major media companies like Sony and Viacom is contrary to recent reports that digital piracy is declining. Guest post by Robert Steele Recently, there has been a lot of discussion surrounding a few articles suggesting that online piracy is decreasing. From where I sit that is not the case. I […]
