Industry of the Week

Digital-Only Classical Label Takes On Rock And Roll(2)

October 11, 2011

X5 compilations have topped the iTunes classical music charts. Now they’re taking on Sun Records catalog. X5 Music Group is a Stockholm-based music startup that is helping to rethink the way labels package and release albums digitally. X5 licenses classical music catalogs and creates attractively-priced digital albums that appeal to a younger demographic. X5′s business [...]

Digital-Only Classical Label Takes On Rock And Roll

Music And Politics: A Q&A With Mitzi Matlock

Mitzi Matlock is the marketing mastermind behind the Mark Wills song “Looking For America”. Despite being new to Nashville, she has assembled a crack team of publicists and radio promoters who have all worked together to make the song a hit. “Looking For America” has taken on a life of its own and has received [...]

Industry Spotlight: Harry Fox Agency

A funny thing happened back in the Brill Building days of music publishing. Before the National Music Publishers Association, better known as the NMPA, was formed in 1917, there was a music publisher’s trade association in New York and a guy named Harry Fox worked there. For whatever reason, Fox was the guy who doled [...]

A Good Year For The Indies

With 273 Grammy nods this year, independent labels picked up just over half of the award nominations. Jim Mahoney, Vice President of the American Association of Independent Music (A2IM), a trade organization that represents independent record labels, says that when he worked at indie labels in the ’80s and ’90s – like Profile Records and [...]