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Independent Record Label: Bloggers Start Their Very Own Record Label

Share Who needs a record label PR machine when cool blogs will help you spread the word for free? This week, two more popular indie music bloggers Gorilla vs. Bear and Weekly Tape Deck start their very own record label called Forest Family Records. Limited runs of 7”, 10” and 12” vinyl plus cassettes by [...]

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13 April 2010

Chris Bauer Chris Bauer

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

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

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

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

Record Label News: Pink Floyd Suing EMI Over Online Royalties

Share March 9 (Bloomberg) — Pink Floyd is suing record label EMI Group Ltd. in London over online royalty payments and the sale of single tracks. The band is asking for clarification to their more than 10- year-old recording contract with EMI, Pink Floyd’s lawyer, Robert Howe, said at a hearing in a London court [...]

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9 March 2010

Chris Bauer Chris Bauer

Spanish Indies Are Preparing to Take the Gov’t to Court on Charges of Piracy Negligence

Share Due to the “massive free downloading” over the past few years, many Spanish indie labels and distribution sectors are preparing to take the government to court on charges of negligence, and demand compensation for the damage done by piracy to the indie sector. The labels – which all belong to 46-member indie label association [...]

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4 March 2010

james James Hill

Record label News: Recording Companies Are Suing The Ellen Degeneres Show

Share Some of the world’s largest recording companies are suing “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” claiming producers violated their copyrights by playing more than 1,000 songs during the “dance over” segment of the show without permission.According to the suit filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Nashville, the defendants said they didn’t “roll that way.” Scott [...]

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10 September 2009

Marion Isobel Marion Isobel

Independent Music News: New eBay Rules Affect Indies

ShareIndie retailers will face another massive hurdle this September when eBay introduces a rule that means they will have to double the advertised price of many of the records they sell. Ebay has a new rule which means sellers are expected to absorb the price of domestic postage costs in to the starting price of [...]

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23 August 2009

Marion Isobel Marion Isobel

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