Sunrise Records Bidding For HMV
I spoke with Doug Putnam a few years ago when he acquired many of the HMV locations in Canada and vowed to keep vinyl front and center in more than …
News from and about the music industry focusing on news specific to vinyl records.
I spoke with Doug Putnam a few years ago when he acquired many of the HMV locations in Canada and vowed to keep vinyl front and center in more than …
The RIAA mid-year sales report is good news for the music industry and for those who love vinyl records since vinyl sales continue to rise. For the first half of …
I heard a very interesting piece on CBC’s Q with Tom Power about the history of Billboard’s Hot 100 Chart. From jukeboxes to streaming: A brief history of the Billboard …
Discogs released its 2017 State of Discogs report and it is all good news. If you’re reading this you probably know what Discogs is and may have used it. If …
In the US, retail sales of music continued to grow year over year based on data collected by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). According to the latest RIAA …
The more I read about the compensation that music creators receive for their work, the more frustrated I get with the seemingly myopic perspective of the streaming music services like …
It’s a well writing article, but also a rehashing of the same story for musicians in the streaming world – “The Reports Of The Record Industry’s Rebirth Are Greatly Exaggerated”. …
Very interesting article that follows up nicely to a post on where streaming music subscriptions go. Sharky Laguana presents a case for a new revenue sharing/distribution model for musicians and …
I pay ten bucks a month to my streaming music service. This is the going rate for services such as Apple Music, Spotify, Deezer or Google Play Music. From my perspective, that’s great …
The Grammy are about to happen, so I thought it would be interesting to see if I could predict the album of the year based on what the reviews of …