Daily News & Analysis Feeds - 2020
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February 6, 2020 – Music Business Association Announces CD Baby as Recipient of 2020 Music Biz Independent Spirit Award
February 6, 2020 — The Music Business Association (Music Biz) today announces that independent music distributor CD Baby will receive the organization’s 2020 Independent Spirit Award during the Music Biz 2020 Annual Conference, taking place May 11-14 at the JW Marriott Nashville. The award will be presented during the annual Music Biz Awards Dinner. CD… Read More
February 5, 2020 – Jennifer Lopez and Shakira’s Song Catalog Nets 893% Sales Gain After Super Bowl
Thanks to their Super Bowl LIV halftime show performance, both Jennifer Lopez and Shakira see major sales gains for their entire catalog of songs, according to initial sales reports to Nielsen Music/MRC Data. It’s no surprise that each artist’s biggest selling songs on Feb. 2 were also tunes that were performed during the halftime show. Shakira’s top three… Read More
February 4, 2020 – BuzzAngle Music and Nielsen Music/MRC Data Share GRAMMY 2020 Music Consumption Data
As in years past, performances at this year’s GRAMMY Awards caused a large spike in sales and streaming activity around performing artists and the songs featured in the GRAMMYs telecast. BuzzAngle Music has launched an online portal that showcase some of the biggest sales splashes made during the telecast and in the following 24 hours.… Read More
February 4, 2020 – [Keeping Tempo With Music Biz] — Uniting Everyone from Pros to Fans: How Jaxsta’s Platform Benefits All Players in the Music Business
The music business’ rapid embrace of technology has greatly helped flatten its structure, allowing everyone from emerging artists to legacy acts and industry executives to make lasting connections and collaborate. Of course, this counts on all parties having access to the same data resources, events calendars, and directories. In this interview with Jaxsta’s co-founder and… Read More
February 3, 2020 – Music Biz Announces Spring 2020 Common Ground Webinar Series
Music Biz is excited to announce the Spring 2020 lineup for our Common Ground Webinar Series! Taking place on Thursdays from 2-3 pm ET, our webinar series will feature case studies of products and services that will solve emerging issues in the industry, and offer a virtual forum to discuss the latest tech, legal, and… Read More
February 3, 2020 – Why Millennials Refuse to Let Go of Physical Media
Millennials are notorious for killing things: the power lunch, diamond sales, breakfast cereal. But all this obsession over what this generation isn’t buying tends to overshadow the fact that, in an increasingly digital world, they are by and large the ones keeping physical media alive. If you’ve ever had to help a person between the ages of 24… Read More
January 31, 2020 – Music Biz Members Symphonic Distribution and AMPED Announce Physical Distribution Partnership
This week, Music Biz members Symphonic Distribution and AMPED announced a new partnership that will allow Symphonic’s clients to access physical distribution services for vinyl, CDs, and cassettes in North America and beyond. “Offering physical distribution is a natural extension of Symphonics’s comprehensive digital music and video distribution offering and artist services arsenal,” says Symphonic’s… Read More
January 30, 2020 – Music Biz 2020 Program Schedule Announced!
Once again, we asked the Music Biz community to submit ideas for our 2020 educational program, and you delivered. The response was tremendous — you made narrowing down to the best of the best very difficult! But, we did it and are excited to share with you the FIRST LOOK at the Music Biz 2020… Read More
January 28, 2020 – Clio Music Opens for Entries, Announces Program Changes for 2020
This week, Music Biz members Clio Music have announced its call for entries for this year’s Clio Music Awards, which will celebrate achievement in artist self-promotion, music marketing, brand collaborations, and the use of music in advertising. The first deadline to enter submissions for this year’s awards program is Friday, March 20th, after which prices… Read More
January 27, 2020 – The Future of What Episode #176: New Tools For Songwriters
As we move into 2020, two things have become all the more apparent: artists have to view themselves as small businesses in order to survive, and income streams within the industry are increasingly fragmented. Thankfully, these trends have been tracked for several years in a row, and there are a multitude of services available to… Listen
