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March 2010

Music Retail News: UMG’s New Pricing Structure Designed to Get Single CDs is Stores at $10 or Below

Share The Universal Music Group tests a new frontline pricing structure called the Velocity program which is designed to get single CDs in stores at $10 or below. Single CDs will have the suggested list prices of $10, $9, $8, $7 and $6. To compensate the lower pricing, UMG also plans to step up deluxe [...]

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23 March 2010

Marion Isobel Marion Isobel

Eco Packaging: How Musicians Can Pomote the Green Movement

Unifiedmanufacturing eco merch

Share          Today, one of the biggest problems that the world is facing is global warming. We have neglected and abused the world for so many decades and it’s about time we do something to save it before it gives up on us completely.More and more musicians are joining the Green Movement. [...]

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20 March 2010

Marion Isobel Marion Isobel

ECO DVD Manufacturing: Atlas Films on O’reilly Factor

Share Our clients at Atlas Films, the wonderful talented crew who brought us Tapped the Movie, were on the O’ Reilly Factor the other day. In case you haven’t seen it, you should because it’s one of the most awesome and most convincing environmental films I’ve ever seen. I am not kidding and I am [...]

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19 March 2010

james James Hill

SXSW: Direct-To-Fan Sales and Marketing

ShareAll my friends who went to the South By Southwest (SXSW) Conference last March 17-21 said that it was very insightful and probably was the best SXSW ever. Sigh, I wish I wasn’t such a slacker and went there instead. To catch up on the latest, I read some of the updates from Billboard and [...]

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18 March 2010

Marion Isobel Marion Isobel

DVD Packaging: Unified makes 100% Eco-friendly DVD packaging for Tapped the Movie

Share  We recently produced an eco- friendly DVD for the environmental documentary,Tapped the Movie by Atlas Films. Because of the independent film company’s advocacy, Atlas Films collaborated with Unified Manufacturing in making 100% eco-friendly DVD packaging. We made a cardboard sleeve that is made of 100% recycled material. The CD Cardboard sleeve and disc art [...]

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18 March 2010

james James Hill

Music Retail: Recorded Music Couldn’t Last?

Share We all know that the Music retail business is facing a big challenge because of the sagging economy and the digital media but does that mean that the record industry is bound for extinction? Here is what Brian Eno says in an interview with Paul Morley: “I think records were just a little bubble [...]

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13 March 2010

james James Hill

Music Retail: Mini-Albums-One Way to Improve the Music Retail Business

Share USA Today is taking note of the uptick in country mini-albums (or EPs, or collections that generally have fewer than ten songs). Luke Bryan, the newspaper points out, released his second “Spring Break” digital EP today. And “country’s Josh Thompson and American Idol’s Jason Castro have released digital EPs in anticipation of full albums.” [...]

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13 March 2010

Chris Bauer Chris Bauer

Vinyl Manufacturing: How Singles are Made (Short Video)

Share Do you wanna know how singles are made? Here is a 3-minute simple but concise video made by BBC in celebration of the 60th year of RCA Record Company’s release of the seven-inch single. You have to trust the good old BBC in the UK to do a segment on this. The BBC is [...]

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11 March 2010

james James Hill

How much the music industry spends annually investing in their artists

Share A new report from the IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry) breaks down how much the music industry spends annually investing in their artists. According to the IFPI’s data, approximately $5 billion is “invested” in artist rosters, with 30 percent of the labels’ revenue spent on artist development and marketing. This includes approximately 16 percent [...]

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11 March 2010

james James Hill

Independent Record Label: Stores That Report to Soundscan

Share Well, I will be darned. I just found out a tiny but important fact that I find relevant to musicians. I am sure you are all aware that Soundscan are the guys that track retail sales for all album sales inside certain retail stores.  I suppose it’s important that you know whether the stores [...]

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11 March 2010

james James Hill

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