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Q&A: Larry Mills of We Are The Hits Talks YouTube, the Music Industry, & How...
At Musonomics, we often talk to more people than we can fit into an episode. As a result, some great wisdom gets left on the cutting room floor. While researching our latest episode, “YouTube’s Big...
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Monday Reading List
On this week’s Monday Reading List, Adele steps up to the plate and smashes another record with her come-back single, The New Republic documents the rise and fall of college rock, a music CEO makes...
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How Bitcoin’s Blockchain Could Fix The Music Industry’s Payment Problem
Professional musicians know that royalty payments and the concept of transparency are mutually exclusive. As we mentioned briefly in our seventh episode , “The Transparency Moment,” the current...
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Monday Reading List
In this week’s reading list, The Guardian reviews John Seabrook’s “The Song Machine,” Facebook dips a toe into music streaming, The New York Times breaks down the emerging business of music curation,...
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To Stream or Not to Stream: Adele’s Question
Adele’s highly anticipated album, 25, releases November 20th, but questions still remain. Will she release 25 on Spotify and other streaming platforms on the same day as the physical release, or will...
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Monday Reading List
What if artists have been thinking about streaming revenues in the wrong way? Steve Aoki thinks we should be thinking of streaming revenues as a type of “pension plan” for musical artists. In other...
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Monday Reading List
Just in case you’ve been hiding under a rock for the last two weeks, Adele has a new album out. As Adele’s 25 continues to break records at every turn, the album is just about the only thing that...
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Monday Reading List
November is almost gone, and with it go memories of turkeys, pumpkin pie, and annoying family members. The last week of November was packed with notable industry news, like a German court’s...
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Episode 9: That Weird Thing That Happened To Recording Studios
Recording studios used to be the place where music was written and produced, but since the ’90s their role in music production has undergone a dramatic change. This week’s episode examines the plight...
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How Virtual Reality Could Change The Music Industry
In the 1990’s, the concept of a functioning virtual reality (VR) system was still in many ways a science fiction fantasy — but that is no longer the case. Multiple developers, most notably Google and...
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Monday Reading List
It’s Monday, and that means it’s time for another Musonomics Monday Reading List. This week, we check in on the Grammy nominations, Bloomberg explains why Spotify is so desperate to cling to their...
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Monday Reading List
On today’s Monday Reading List: Music Business Worldwide tells us why this week will be so important for the industry, Taylor Swift and Apple join forces (again), a new study suggests that streaming...
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Monday Reading List
It’s Monday again, and that means another batch of important information to catch up on. On this week’s Monday Reading List, Billboard.biz explains new changes to webcasting rates, Spotify considers...
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Episode 10: The 3 Most Important Stories of 2015
From Adele to the streaming wars to a call for revision of arcane music licensing laws from the U.S. Copyright Office — in our final episode of the year Larry Miller talks with Neil Shah of the Wall...
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Music, Money and the Super Bowl
It’s really big! But exactly how big is the Super Bowl halftime show for the artists that perform on it — and on the music makers whose songs are used in commercials produced for the big game? Super...
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Doritos and APM Music “Crash The Super Bowl Contest” Marks 10th and Final Year
Since 2006, Doritos and APM Music, the largest production music platform in the US, have run the Super Bowl ad contest, “Crash The Super Bowl.” The partnership engages online followers by offering...
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Spotify Adds In-App Video Content
Spotify has been known since its launch in 2006 as a music streaming service, but with a move into video content, the streaming giant looks to be broadening its entertainment offerings. In a new...
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No Compulsory Licensing for Remixes, Determines DoC Internet Task Force
Remixes and mashups will not be subject to compulsory licenses anytime soon according to recommendations presented in a white paper released last month by the Department of Commerce (DoC). The white...
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Music in the Time of Politics
Hot on the heels of Super Tuesday we delve into the world of presidential campaign music and what happens when popular music is misused by campaigns. On this episode, we take a trip back in time to...
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Songwriters, Consent and the Age of Discontent
Songwriters struggle to get paid while the copyright system designed to protect their rights is partially to blame, but why? In this episode of Musonomics, Larry Miller takes a look at how the...
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