As is now widely known, Apple Music is comprised of three key elements: iTunes – but on demand and in the cloud (a la Spotify), a...

And so the critically important fight over music rights fees wears on. Pandora lobbies in favor of the Internet Radio Fairness Act now...

It's one thing to get paid when someone plays or hears your song. It's another thing to get paid when someone plays or hears a sample of...

I recommend you read this for yourself because it’s rather long, but what Seth is essentially saying is the salvation of the music...

From the news: NPD stated that around one million consumers decided to stop buying CDs last year, with teens leading the trend. According...

So says the argument of Duncan Watts. His case is the opposite of the Tipping Point argument which brought us the notion of mavens or...

I have spent a lot of time studying the pictures in this post. The data illustrated here is not new, of course. We all know music sales...

From Inside Radio: Months of jockeying became less theoretical and more literal yesterday, as bills were introduced in both the House and...

If ever there was a cartoon that said it all, this would be it. [from Music2.0]

Estimates eMarketer: Worldwide spending on recorded music will actually decline—falling from $31.8 billion in 2006 to $26.2 billion in...

From Inside Radio: Think radio airplay helps drive record sales? Not so says University of Texas at Dallas Professor Stan Liebowitz who...

And they do it with research. Check the “media center” tab on the Music First Coalition website and you’ll see a glaring example of this....

What’s the most important thing about music consumers that the music industry doesn’t know? With the recent effort of that industry to...

From FMQB: musicFIRST Coalition Takes Aim At Radio Performance Rights A new coalition has been announced which will aim for fairness in...

A very clever – and very smart – strategic move by SoundExchange. From Inside Radio: In an effort to appear not to look like they’re...

As I have been predicting for a long time, eMarketer today reports “Music Industry Licensing to Provide Growth.” As the article notes:...

From Inside Radio: NAB’s next defensive fight — against a “performance tax.” Language has mystical power in Washington and NAB boss David...

Here’s a very cogent report on trends in the music industry summarized by eMarketer.com. The bottom line: – Between now and 2011, the...

Let’s suppose you’re a Christian station in a middle-sized Western market. And suppose you use a particular kind of online callout, the...

Remember when you were a student and Tower Records was the center of your universe? From that vantage point, how hard it is to believe...