What’s That Square In Your Stocking?
According to the British Recorded Music Industry (BPI), stockings this Christmas will be filled with up to 20 million CDs. The most obvious response to this is: Why?
2011
10 Commandments Of Independent Music Making
Here is what I have learned over the last year from my own experience and from leaders and pioneers of this new internet music scene. Here are my current 10 Commandments to reach the goal: Getting Known and Being Paid through the Internet.
Sample Copyright: The Executioner Of Hip-Hop
‘Sampling’ is understood on a variety of different levels. Some see it simply as ripping a track off from its previous success, an easy option to make money in a difficult industry to do so.
Being An Artist In The 21st Century
The only territory worth exploring as an artist is the area without the map – the place where you need to lead the way. Art is about the new, the fresh, the exciting.
Lessons from EMI: Market Concentration
But it was Dotted Music all the way back in July who framed the story in relation to the market as a whole. In an article dating to 15 July I made the inference that any sale would have to clear regulatory laws regarding market concentration.
Keith Olsen On Success In Music: ‘Being Good Isn’t Good Enough. You Have To Be Great’
Here is one inspirational quote we found in the Keith Olsen interview Ultimate Guitar writer Joe Matera did not so long ago.
