Category: Artist Discovery
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The Winners And Losers Of Music Licensing
ASCAP is often praised for ensuring that artists receive their share of profits. However, many small businesses argue that, in many cases, ASCAP prevents artists from being heard or discovered. Is there a compromise to be made, or is ASCAP doing their job? You decide.
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How Taste In Music Has Evolved
Find out how music taste’s have changed since 1958 until now by looking at every top 5 hit of the year.
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Using Spotify To Identify Contemporary Classics
Polygraph gives us the ability (using Spotify) to identify how the classic songs of our time stack up against the hits that came before us. Seei how the biggest hits of today may not carry over as well as a song that flew under the radar during its time.
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Musicmap & The Genealogy of Music
Musicmap gives us an insight to how our favorite genres of today came to be. It also acts as a guide to how genres relate to one another citing examples within their dynamic map.
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Missed Music Opportunity
Recently M&S removed music from their retail stores. Our friends at Soundlounge explain how using the right music can have a positive impact on sales in this article on LBB.
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Spotify Out of Office
What a fun little trick from Spotify. You can create an Out of Office message and destination based playlist. Check it out here.
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Red Bull Sound Select
Red Bull Sound Select kicked off earlier this month, touting 30 days of live music events in LA. Billboard takes a closer look at the energy drink’s continuing endeavor to be a music taste maker by asking the question, “Can Red Bull Break A Band?” Read the whole article here.