Ongoing History Daily: The Marvel Comics Record Label
We’ve all heard about Marvel Comics and all the movies and characters that populate the Marvel Comics Universe, but do
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Record Labels
Random music news for Monday, January 14, 2019
On this day in 1986, the first-ever PC virus. (c)Brain, was released into the wild. As for music news on
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How well do you know the players in the recording industry?
Online label manufacturer www.data-label.co.uk compiled this list of the biggest record labels companies and their artists who have sold the most. First,
Read moreHang On: You Mean the Recording Industry is Okay Again?
How long have we been hearing that the recording industry was in decline? Since 2000, at least. Revenues peaked in
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Streaming Is Changing the Whole Concept of the Album Release
For the last five decades, there was a protocol for releasing an album. Billboard looks at the way things used
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How the Record Labels Are Missing the Point (and Losing Money) with YouTube
This comes from Mark Mulligan’s Music Industry Blog: This is the fifth post in my YouTube economy series. You can read
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To Repeat: Don’t Blame Streaming Music Services for Low Artist Payouts
On Wednesday, I delivered a guest lecture to RTA students at Ryerson University about the situation involving streaming music services
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More on the Suckage of Official Artist Bios
As someone who has written a number of artist bios (including one for a major Canadian artist who has an
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If You’reThinking About Starting a Record Label, Listen to This
So in this ever-changing world in which we live in (ref. Paul McCartney, “Live and Let Die,”) what do record
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David Byrne: Make the Music Industry Transparent
This is David Byrne’s op-ed that appeared in the New York Times on Sunday. He’s pleading for the music industry
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What Happens When an Artist Gets Dropped by Their Record Label?
There comes a time when an artist and a record label have to part ways–and it’s usually not very pretty. This
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