newmusicstrategies.com

http://newmusicstrategies.com

• No stop it! My sides…

  http://newmusicstrategies.com/2008/06/13/no-stop-it-my-sides...
  21 days

  In the tradition of fine journalism you’ve come to expect from New Music Strategies, I’m just going to cut and paste a press release from the British Phonographic Institute (BPI) verbatim. They’re the UK equivalent of the RIAA, in case you weren’t aware. I would add further comment, but I have collapsed on the floor with laughter and may,

  » Show details

• Well said

  http://newmusicstrategies.com/2008/06/12/well-said/
  21 days

  Yes, Yes and (mostly) Yes. One caveat: when Jay Smooth says “music industry” he means “record business”. There’s a whole lot of stuff going on out there in the music industry which has nothing to do with making and selling recordings. There are people teaching music for money, people making and selling instruments,

  » Show details

• What websites should I be on? (Part 2)

  http://newmusicstrategies.com/2008/06/08/what-websites-shoul...
  22 days

  [ Last.]Image via WikipediaI used to joke that the way to be successful in the music industry was to look at whatever the major labels were up to, and simply do the opposite. It’s getting to the point where that’s not really a joke anymore. I learned yesterday that Warner Music have pulled their catalogue from Last.fm

  » Show details

• What websites should I be on? (Part 1)

  http://newmusicstrategies.com/2008/06/04/what-websites-shoul...
  26 days

  [ Wiki] When you’re thinking about ‘Getting your music out there’, there are quite a few choices. We’ve already covered MySpace, to a certain extent - though it’s worth mentioning a pretty good bit of coverage about How to Promote Yourself on MySpace on Wired. You’ll notice that Wired article is a Wiki. That is to say,

  » Show details

• What should the price of recorded music be?

  http://newmusicstrategies.com/2008/05/27/what-should-the-pri...
  34 days

  [ Cro] DJ Cro supporting Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings in Birmingham One of the problems of recorded music is the issue of price. With mp3s being an essentially infinite and perfectly replicable resource, the market price is a theoretical (and quite often practical) zero. But one strategy to set a price has been to turn this on its head,

  » Show details

• Record Industry Innovation Prize

  http://newmusicstrategies.com/2008/05/24/record-industry-inn...
  37 days

  I just posted the seed of an idea in Music Think Tank, and I’d be really interested to hear what you think about it. Head on over and have a read. Essentially, the idea is that the Record Industry should offer a cash prize to the most innovative and successful new online music business startup. Moreover, tech entrepreneurs who enter to compete

  » Show details

• Is ‘pay to play’ ever a good idea?

  http://newmusicstrategies.com/2008/05/19/is-pay-to-play-ever...
  42 days

  [ Surface unsigned logo] This one’s easy. No, no, no, no, no (yes, occasionally) and no. By and large, venues, festival organisers and promoters who insist that musicians bring a certain number of ticket-buying punters to their gigs should pretty much have their licences revoked in my book. The argument goes something like this:

  » Show details

• 20 Chinese Things

  http://newmusicstrategies.com/2008/05/18/20-chinese-things/
  43 days

  [ 20 Things in Chinese] My free e-book, The 20 Things You Must Know About Music Online is finally available in Chinese. It was translated months ago. I was the bottleneck. I was quite nervous about formatting and laying it out, and so I put it off for ages. For which I apologise. It’s a bit of an epic. 120 pages

  » Show details

• How can you sell mp3s at gigs?

  http://newmusicstrategies.com/2008/05/12/how-can-you-sell-mp...
  49 days

  [ Busker] I’ve had this question in a number of forms. The most common one is the artist who doesn’t really sell many CDs through retail, but every time they perform live, they go through 20, 50 or even 100 CDs over the merchandise table. The question is - if I make the leap to mp3, who’s going to buy that to take home as a souvenir?

  » Show details

• So what should be on my MySpace page?

  http://newmusicstrategies.com/2008/05/09/so-what-should-be-o...
  52 days

  [ Ugly MySpace] An entrant in Ze Frank’s Ugly MySpace Competition Another one I get asked an awful lot - particularly by musicians who are just getting started in the online environment. They’ve heard about MySpace, and that it’s where all the musicians are - but they’ve had a bit of a look through and are a bit bewildered

  » Show details