I think this is another important thing that listeners need to be educated on in the new music world. Touring USED to be a viable way for artists to monetize their performance and make a living from it, but this is no longer the case, again, for MOST artists. There is NO reason

When an author writes a book and that book sells copies, the author should be paid for the sales of that book. Why don't people believe the same works for musicians? I hear all the time "the money is in touring and merch." Why can't an artist just get paid for the works they

Live Nation generated revenue in Q1 of this year of $3.8bln, and experienced growth in attendance of 21%. According to CEO Michael Rapino, global demand for live events is at an all-time high. And yet, for many artists, live performance is just not financially viable these days.

Do yourself a favor today. Pull up your favorite piece of music, whatever it may be, and however you have to do it. Sit down, put some headphones on, free yourself from any other distractions, and then listen to it. But not just idly. REALLY listen to it. Pick apart the whole

This is from an article about some MORE layoffs happening in the video game industry, but for ANYONE hoping to leverage a major corporation to increase exposure to their creative outputs, take note: Corporations DO NOT CARE ABOUT YOU. If you are not actively making them more

According to the UMG Q1 earnings call, there is a lot of excitement regarding "superfan monetization." Lucian Grange believes that "1 in 5 paid music subscribers would be willing to pay for a premium tier." What he's really referring to is the same demographic of listener that

Things have been very busy these past few weeks! I've been building while I am able, and things are progressing well with the #NFT collection, but I realized I was being a little quiet lately. Please don't mistake this for some kind of surrender. Every day I am reminded of how

It's true. The expectations put on musicians in order to make a living from their career have spiraled way out of control. Let's make things simpler, and start paying musicians for the thing they created to begin with: the music.

“Our music is for sale, but our humanity and morality is not.” Massive Attack is one of 120 acts that pulled out of the Great Escape festival in solidarity with Palestine. Scroll to find more immediate, urgent actions everyone can take (via BDS). Free Palestine 🍉

Artists have been beaten down by the narrative of the last however many decades of corruption and corporate influence. But now, today, there are so many more tools at an artist's disposal for creating, releasing, and getting their music into the hands of their audience. There's

1st time in a veryyyyy long time i’m contemplating scaling back my contribution to “crypto” artists keeeeeep getting taken advantage of & undervalued. we thought this was a fix for the traditional industry but the same exact things are happening here where tf can we go?

I haven't posted in a while, but I'm still out here. And so is #Spotify Seemingly ripping off artists once again, according to insiders. Anyone surprised?

I'm curious where they came up with $151,000/file. Does anyone think #spotify paid that much for each of those songs? #doubt #music