Graham English
Songwriter, Recording Artist, and Blogging Musician
Songwriter, Recording Artist, and Blogging Musician
Today marks the first time that musicians not affiliated with a label or royalty collection agency can collect revenue direct from a free streaming music platform. Read on…
Kevin Kelly is back again with some feedback on his article, 1,000 True Fans, by musician Robert Rich. Read on…
Kevin Kelly writes that the long tail is a blessing for aggregators (Amazon, Netflix) and consumers. But not so for creators. Read on…
Seth Godin dishes 14 tips to musicians on the cusp between old and new media. Read on…
Along the same lines as the Thom Yorke interview, David Byrne lays out the “Survival Strategies for Emerging Artists — and Megastars.”
Wired has put together an excellent multi-media article about Radiohead’s recent experiment and the music business in general.
Radiohead is releasing their new album In Rainbows next week for any price you want to pay! But they’re not the first.
“The minute you sign your name, you lose all the rights to your music and you’ll never see a dime.” -Dick Dale
TechCrunch reports that SellABand just might be working.
But a few months later, wow. 2700 bands from all over the world have signed up, and four have already reached the $50,000 mark and have recorded albums (Nemesea, Cubworld, Second Person and Clemence, and more are on the way. Mandyleigh, one of our readers, is currently no. [...]
Here’s the final entry to my 2006 Celebrations and Reflections series. According to my stats, these are the top 20 most popular posts of 2006. Have a happy New Year!
How To Be An Expert
Your Goals As Waveform
What is RSS and Why Do I Care?
The World’s Most Important 6-Sec Drum Loop
Absolute Pitch Power Blogathon
Can Hit Songs [...]
Learn how to promote and market your music, self-publish your music, and make your music business grow in 2007 with these tips from my top music business articles of 2006.
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WikiMusicGuide
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Tunecore Puts Your Music Into iTunes And [...]
Find out more: Music Business Radio - Weekly Podcast Now Available
Current show features Dez Dickerson. Dez is probably best known as the lead guitarist and musical director for Prince and the Revolution, but has worked with a number of artists including Narada Michael Walden, Aretha Franklin, and Vanity 6.
You will learn a lot about [...]
Warner Bros. is looking to promote bands in virtual worlds.
Warner Bros. Records is looking to create Second Life environments for some of its bands, judging this blog post by its director of technology, Ethan Kaplan. Kaplan writes that he wants to hire “someone who knows Second Life like the back of their hand to create [...]
I have been speaking with a business friend of mine, Greg Percifield. In case you don’t know him, he’s the owner of Music Forte Inc. We were discussing various CD distribution companies, and the problems that existed in that field of the music business. We both concluded that the rate of actual distribution is very [...]
This is a really good article from one of my favorite blogs.
In all cases, there’s more money performing than recording:
Sillerman established himself in live performance, and those stripes shined brightly during the keynote. “In all cases, there’s more money performing than recording,” he said, noting that future artists may create business models that focus on [...]
Loading ...A couple of weeks ago I finished reading the book, Naked Conversations, by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel. It continues the ideas set forth in The Cluetrain Manifesto that marketing is a conversation. But more importantly, it deals with how that conversation is flourishing through business blogging. The book doesn’t deal with music industry blogging [...]
Just imagine a world where you need to insert your credit card into a reader to be able to flush the toilet at a restaurant, where a userID and password is required to fill your bathtub, and where you secretly trade water jugs of rainwater with your neighbors. This is basically what we have in [...]
Arctic Monkeys make chart history:
Arctic Monkeys sell more than 360,000 copies of their album, making it the fastest-selling debut in UK chart history.
The Arctic Monkeys first built a loyal following on the Internet.
A web-based record label management application that takes a lot of what used to be done on paper and through filemaker, puts it on the web and allows record label employees to stay in touch with everything a record label is doing during the entire process. URL: Music Arsenal.
MacNewsWorld - Will Music Subscriptions Replace Per-Song Sales?:
“It’s no secret that the iPod is one of the must-have gadgets of the early 21st Century. What is less talked about, though, is how Apple has helped to kick-start the transition of the music business from retail to online sales. In the space of just over two [...]
about grahamI'm a songwriter and recording artist who sings, plays keyboards, and explores the vast world of sound hoping to find some magical moments along the way. I'm also a Mac geek.
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