Continuing from last week’s article: For his last CD, Friedman solicited advance sales from his coterie of fans worldwide on the World...

Unfortunately, contractually, the artists generally don’t own these tracks. The entities whose permission the downloaders require are the...

Some estimate that the record companies spend more than twice as much on promotion as they do on actual recording costs. That recording...

One music commentator explains; I run into people every day who would love to sell a gazillion records. The hip-hop artists still have an...

“The record industry has come back, bigger and better than ever. …It has been on the verge of disaster… but each time sobbing requiems...

Sometimes even the extra stream of revenue from the publishing royalties against the advance is not enough, for either party. Certain...

Nor does the artist always get a full royalty: As to sales of prerecorded magnetic tapes… the royalty payable to the Artist shall be...

Of course, the artists have to pay to make the record, albeit not directly: All recording costs incurred by the record company under this...

The music industry expert continues; when I first went through the specific document we’ll be looking at, I couldn’t believe the terms. I...

“Today I want to talk about piracy and music,” Courtney Love told the industry-ites, artists, and computer music gurus at the Digital...

One music teacher noted that as time went on, student attendance at events like orchestral concerts and ballets had dwindled. “The reason...

This effect is not necessarily a conscious phenomenon, either. In a study of first and second graders in a Rhode Island school district,...

If a person eats only swill, then the only judgment he can make is what kind of swill he likes. If a person only hears the music that’s...

All this is to say that the modern consumer faces an unprecedented number of choices for his or her entertainment and media dollar. And...

The music business still counts on “the kids.” That phrase has been on the lips of every record executive for at least as long as one...

Television presents another possibility for reaching the “lost audience,” especially as two things happen: web technology and television...

Independent record labels can create the music that will reach the rock-and-roll adult, and they already do. Putumayo does very well with...

One music industry expert recalls; When I was a kid (we’re talking Bedrock here, folks: stone cars you drove with your feet, birds on...

Nearly 20 years later, the leading edge of this key demographic faces turning 60, and the bulk are in their 40s. the generation that...

Pete Townshend, at the tender age of 23, wrote an anthem for his age called “My Generation.” One of the most controversial lines in the...