It’s not new, streaming your cool song in MySpace then found by record executives offering record contract. But this one is quite different. This chick Kina Grannis made a catchy song about Digg, the famous social voting site, and post a simple video in YouTube. The song made the first page at Digg for more [...]
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Another Viral Way to Get Record Contract
by Robin Malau on 29. Dec, 2007 in cool site, Cool video, music business
Huge Problem in Music
by Robin Malau on 30. Nov, 2007 in legend, music business, music industry
There’s a cool calculation on how much musicians will earn by signing with record label by Steve Albini at Negativland site here. Been there done that.
NIN Fan Remix Site is Put On Hold
by Robin Malau on 24. Nov, 2007 in music business
Here’s a news excerpt from Aversion that showcasing the ego maniac major labels trying to rule out the internet creativity: A site that was prepped to showcase fan-submitted remixes of Nine Inch Nails’ latest batch of songs has been put on hold after lawyers from the band’s last label, Interscope, and Google and MySpace got [...]
Warner CEO: We Were Wrong
by Robin Malau on 15. Nov, 2007 in music business
I think this is a good sign, can’t wait for their action to solve this problem. A statement from Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Warner Music Group Edgar Bronfman: We used to fool ourselves…We used to think our content was perfect just exactly as it was. We expected our business would remain blissfully unaffected [...]
100 Free Music Promotion Tips
by Robin Malau on 19. Oct, 2007 in Music 2.0., music business
Hypebot, one of the coolest music site (community) in the planet are almost finishing their 100 Free & Affordable High and Low Tech Music Promotion Tips. Meanwhile they already wrote 90 of them, here’s some links:- Tips 1-10- Tips 11-20- Tips 21-30- Tips 31-40- Tips 41-50- Tips 51-60- Tips 61-70- Tips 71-80- Tips 81-90 They [...]
Top Earning Musicians 2006-2007
by Robin Malau on 28. Sep, 2007 in money, music business
Forbes announced top earning musicians of 2006-2007. Well nothing’s new about this. Rolling Stone topped the spot with $88 millions earning, 2nd place is Madonna with $72 millions. Top income sources are touring, being big in Japan, merchandising and sponsorship. My two cent is that music downloads could slowly kills record labels while artists could [...]
Music Business Solution
by Robin Malau on 28. Sep, 2007 in cool site, Digital Music, Music 2.0., music business
There’s a cool site Nimbit Music that can be your solution to sell your music online. You can also manage to sell your music & merchandise, add your show schedule, add your band’s bio, allowing the fans to connect with your band through newsletter and a shopping cart. This service is a free setup and [...]
New Era of Music Promotions?
by Robin Malau on 24. Sep, 2007 in music business
Via HypeBot: Starbucks is going to give away 50 million tracks as it helps launch the new iTunes wireless service with Apple. From Oct. 2 to Nov. 7 customers in all 10,000 U.S. Starbucks outlets will be handed 1.5 million “Song of the Day” cards each day for redemption on iTunes. The first song featured [...]
