Músicos substituem receitas dos discos pelas dos concertos

O «Times Online» reuniu dados dos rendimentos da indústria musical no Reino Unido respeitantes aos últimos cinco anos - discos gravados, concertos e royalties pagos pelos direitos de autor - e o gráfico do «Times Online» demonstra que algumas das conclusões que se têm espalhado pela indústria musical, principalmente a convicção de que os artistas estão a perder dinheiro devido à queda de vendas de música gravada, poderão ter outra leitura: Continuar...

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Band Metrics Helps Musicians Measure The Success Of Their Music

In a digital age where album sales no longer accurately represent a band’s success, it has become increasingly important for bands and labels to be able to measure popularity on the Internet, on sites like Myspace, Last.fm, YouTube, SoundCloud and Facebook. Music data site Band Metrics is looking to offer such a service, and opened up the private beta today for several thousand artists to test its system, reports Hypebot.

Band Metrics not only gauges song plays, profile views and comments across various platforms, but also tracks airplay on over 3,500 radio stations, and scores your music 8 different ways. For example, your band has a “fandom” rating and “brand strength”. The company is also launching a standard format for sending and receiving data from the site, so it’s easy for users to share band data between each other. Check out some of the more interesting forthcoming features in development: Continue reading...

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eMusic Strikes Deal With Sony Music, Raises Monthly Price to $12

Music download service eMusic announced on Monday that it had struck a licensing deal with Sony Music. Sony will be including some of its older catalog releases in eMusic’s library of more than 5.5 million tracks later this year.

eMusic is a subscription service that gives users a allotted number of tracks for a monthly fee. As part of the recent Sony deal, the company has raised its price from $10 a month to $12, and lowered the allotment of tracks from 30 per month to 24. Some quick math shows that the price per track jumped from 30 cents to 50 cents. Continue reading...

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NPD Survey: Music Spending Won’t Drop in 2009

An NPD report states that 75 percent of consumers said they will spend the same amount or more on digital music downloads, and 60 percent will spend the same or more on CDs, in comparison to 2008. It seems that despite the economic downturn, people are to maintain their spending on entertainment, which goes to show how important music is in every one’s lives. Read more...

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Court Webcasts, Securing Your Internet Privacy

As we’ve reported, the Recording Industry opposes court webcasts of the file sharing lawsuit against Boston University student, Joel Tenenbaum. However, defense lawyer Charles R. Nesson told the US Court of appeals that an online webcast of the proceedings would be “an opportunity for the world to see what the recording industry is doing to [Joel].”

The trial is being considered a precedent for all piracy lawsuits, and could set the scenario for future prosecution of file sharers. Also, researchers at Northwestern University have found a new threat to privacy in peer-to-peer (P2P) networks. To thwart this threat, they have released SwarmScreen, publicly available software that masks a user’s real download activity, to disrupt identification. Continue reading...

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Indie Label Sales in “Free Fall” Discussed at SXSW Panel

Financial problems suffered by major labels, brought about by plummeting album sales and piracy, are much worse for independent labels. On the “Indie Labels Keep the Faith” panel Nan Warshaw, co-owner of Chicago’s Bloodshot Records, lamented:

“The decline in indie retail has continued in a free-fall. Everything you’ve heard [about the troubles of major labels], it’s probably worse.”

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