On March 25th, 2014 Facebook made news again. Following the nineteen billion dollar purchase of high tech startup WhatsApp in February, Chairman and CEO Mark…
On September 30, 2013, YouTube debuted its own YouTube Music Awards (YTMA) show. YouTube has long played an important role in the music industry, exposing…
Secondary ticketing, a practice many prefer to call ticket scalping, is hardly new. According to Ticketmaster’s co-founder Albert Leffler, ticket resale was already profitable in…
As the music industry’s traditional structures continue to fall away, new models are building upon unsteady foundations. Some of the new companies that stepped onto…
In December 2012, Peter Spellman, head of Berklee’s Career Development Center, produced a listing of salary ranges for US music positions in performance, writing, business,…
The touring industry’s top minds gathered at New York City’s Roosevelt Hotel in November for the Billboard Touring Conference and Awards. Over two days, panels…
2011 was a year of hit records, powerful female artists, the discovery of electronic dance music within the US, and more genre crossovers into the…
In an industry believed to be recession proof, live music has indeed seen an overall dip in sales throughout the prime summer touring season. There…
When I first arrived in Chicago in the summer of 2008, I knew it would be a musical experience unlike any other. I was a…
It is now often argued that the future of music lies in live music. The decline of the record business, the old cash cow of…