Tag: music

• How Much of the New American Songbook Will Be Sung in Spanish?

  September 14, 2019

  Is it really possible that today’s Latino musicians will be remembered primarily via the dude from Matchbox Twenty? Slate’s New American Songbook, a project dedicated to predicting which songs from… more ›

• ‘Dummy wasn’t a chillout album. Portishead had more in common with Nirvana’

  August 24, 2019

  Twenty-five years ago, during the summer of Blur’s Parklife and Oasis’s Definitely Maybe, a darker, stranger record was released that would soon become huge. Its title and mood was inspired… more ›

• Why Is Everyone Always Stealing Black Music?

  August 21, 2019

  I’ve got a friend who’s an incurable Pandora guy, and one Saturday while we were making dinner, he found a station called Yacht Rock. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/music-black-culture-appropriation.html more ›

• Should Spotify Change the Way It Pays Artists?

  June 16, 2019

  British electronic-music pioneer Jon Hopkins, writing on Twitter back in 2011, is definitely responsible for the most succinct public attack on the world’s biggest music subscription service. The most memorable… more ›

• What is Happening to Streaming’s Superstars?

  June 16, 2019

  Think of the biggest-earning artists on music streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music, and the usual megastars might come to mind. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/what-is-happening-to-streamings-superstars-845395/ more ›

• How does the music industry work? Give me the high-level overview!

  June 4, 2019

  So, you want to know how the music industry works? You want a high-level overview of the music business? Maybe even some pretty diagrams that explain how it all works?… more ›

• Metadata is the biggest little problem plaguing the music industry

  June 4, 2019

  Recently, a musician signed to a major indie label told me they were owed up to $40,000 in song royalties they would never be able to collect. https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/29/18531476/music-industry-song-royalties-metadata-credit-problems more ›

• iTunes is dead—long live Apple Music, Apple Podcasts, and Apple TV

  June 3, 2019

  SAN JOSE, Calif.—As part of a slate of upcoming software updates, Apple will close the door on one of its most iconic pieces of software: iTunes. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/06/itunes-is-dead-long-live-apple-music-apple-podcasts-and-apple-tv/ more ›

• Iranian pop music

  May 29, 2019

  Iranian pop music refers to pop music originated in Iran, with songs mainly in Persian and other regional languages of the country. It is also widely referred to as Persian… more ›

• The global value of music copyright topped $28bn in 2017

  April 17, 2019

  What is the global value of music copyright? This intriguing question was addressed by Music Business Worldwide for calendar years 2014, 2015 and 2016; and we can now reveal the… more ›