Archive for the ‘Music Industry News’ Category

I’ve recently been doing some interesting research with a property search engine called Gartoo on how much it costs to keep a roof over your head as a musician in the United Kingdom, and I decided to put a post together to show the sheer volume of sales a musician would need to make to live in the various major cities around the United Kingdom – hopefully this should highlight the fact that there is a true need to monetise music through...

Today I polished off my latest infographic 'How Green is the Music Industry', which is a short and sweet visual campaign I created in the hope of raising awareness of the good, the bad, and the ugly environmental impacts the music industry has on the Earth - Enjoy! Hopefully, we will all choose to learn from the musicians who are saving the planet and act on it ourselves, whilst thinking twice the next time we hear the U2's of the world...

Evening all, I'm really (really..really) excited to announce a new free feature added to The Musician's Guide called MIquestions (Music Industry Questions). On MIquestions you can ask any questions you have about the music industry - be it music law, about getting record deals, or how to promote you music and then receive answers from other musicians on this site. The beauty is there's no signing up forms, no hassle waiting for...

This guest post was written by Daniel Ward, Legal Adviser with Altarboymusic.com who offer affordable legal services for musicians. Most people who decide to go into business together (be them plumbers, dentists, accountants, bakers) will have a lawyer to write them a partnership agreement. However, it is common to find bands that are earning millions that never got around formalizing their relationship. Band members either fail to...

Today I was honoured to have a chat with a guy who not only accurately predicted the future of the music industry in 1995, but also innovated it himself. Dave Kusek co-invented electronic drums, he was also a part of the team who invented MIDI (music instrument digital interface) which is used by millions worldwide. And as if that was wasn't enough he is also the Vice President of Berklee College of Music responsible for running...

iTunes have just announced something really exciting - your music can now appear on iTunes in just 24 hours if you upload your song with one of the major music distributors like Zimbalam, Tunecore, or my personal favourite as outlined in my video comparison of the digital music distribution services (see below); Ditto Music. What’s all the fuss over a 24-hour upload service? In the video below I compare all of the different music...

Last week I was contacted by the friendly guys from Sound Around who develop iPhone apps for musicians and we had a chat over Skype about the apps and how they are beneficial to marketing music artists. (more...)...

Last month I wrote a blog post called Which Music Distribution Service Rocks the Most, in which I reviewed my new favourite music distributor: Ditto Music. A few weeks after my review I was contacted by Lee Parsons at Ditto Music who explained that they had significantly improved their system since my first experience and invited me to try out the service again. So below is my step-by-step experience of uploading your music to iTunes with my...

If you’re anything at all like me, you might have once wondered why it is that record labels keep reporting multi million pound losses year after year, but we still see ridiculously pretentious music videos, which quite clearly are costing them a fortune. Product placement advertising will obviously fund some of the shiny toys, but it’s surprising at how low a percentage of product mentions and video features are actually paid product...

The ability to distribute your music without the need of a record label is a relatively new thing to the music industry, which still hasn’t reached a surprisingly large amount of musicians, but for those who do know, which service is the best? (more...)...