What is the Future of Music?

Since music is such an integral part of our daily lives, to ask “what is the future of music?” is really to ask a question about ourselves, and how music will continue to shape how we live. The future of music will most likely follow the same trends we are seeing in modern technology.  It will […]

Top Music Industry Trends for 2023

We may have been able to predict what transpired, but some aspects of the music business shocked us. The environment for artists is evolving daily. Let us look at what the music industry looks like in 2023, and how an independent musician stays competitive with the changing trends. TikTok will take over the digital world […]

WHO IS GOING TO BUY THE PINK FLOYD CATALOG?

After a relatively quiet summer of music business commercial activity, one story looks likely to dominate the headlines in the month or two ahead. That story is the well-reported sell-off of Pink Floyd’s catalog. But when we say ‘catalog’ we should get much more specific, because this career-spanning catalog, according to multiple MBW sources does […]

THE EXEC WHO BUILT SPOTIFY FOR ARTISTS JUST LAUNCHED… SOUNDCLOUD FOR ARTISTS

SoundCloud just launched a new creator dashboard and a new name for its artist services platform, now dubbed SoundCloud for Artists. ‘SoundCloud for Artists’ was formerly known as ‘Repost’ which SoundCloud acquired in May 2019 for around $15 million. Following the acquisition of Repost, in April 2020, SoundCloud launched its Repost by SoundCloud marketing and distribution platform. At the time, it said that it […]