The Canadian Independent Music Association (CIMA) is partnering with Nordicity (with support from provincial and territorial Music Industry Associations) to launch an important study about Canada’s independent music community. This study will firmly establish the actual economic impact that independent music has in Canada, both from a regional and national [...]
Washington, DC-based nonprofit Future of Music Coalition interviewed 80 different musicians and composers, conducted nearly a dozen financial case studies, and ran an online survey completed by over 5000 musicians to uncover . . . [...]
Do you use Twitter? Rdio? Spotify? iTunes? Do you want to discover new music? Do you want to know what’s trending right now amongst other music listeners around the world? Do you want a comprehensive page that let’s your social network know what you’re listening to and sharing via social [...]
IFPI Publishes Digital Music Report 2012 Download the IFPI Digital Music Report 2012 HERE Download the IFPI Digital Music Report 2012: Key Facts and Figures HERE The following is from the website of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) London, 23rd January 2012 “Digital music goes global in [...]
The following is a keynote address by Michael Geist (Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law) at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg on January 27, 2012 that discusses the role of digital activism in countering bills like SOPA and the ongoing copyfight over the use of WIPO, [...]
Check out Future of Music Coalition‘s Kristin Thomson speak about the Artist Revenue Streams research project at MIDEM 2012: Future of Music Coalition: The New Power Trio: Brands Bands and Revenue – midem 2012 presentation View more presentations from midem
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A new study from Music WithMe was just released, which looks at the discrepancy between the number of fans who tweet about an artist and the percentage of those who follow that same artist on Twitter. Read on… ”Artists have a huge opportunity to capture 5 times more of these [...]
Future of Music Coalition is conducting a groundbreaking research project from September 6th – October 28th 2011 about how musicians and composers are making money in the new music business landscape. If you’re a musician or composer of any kind, please take a moment to complete the survey and help [...]
Here’s a first: I received an email from Ruth and Seb Marx at Gush Records in the UK a few weeks back asking how they could get involved in my blog. I was both flattered and intrigued by the idea. I wrote them back and offered to listen to whatever music [...]