New Media

Report: SoundExchange Doled Out $292 Million In Royalties In 2011(0)

January 18, 2012

SoundExchange, a non-profit performance rights group that collects royalties from various hosts for streaming sound recordings, reported last quarter as their most successful yet. During the fourth quarter of 2011, more than 18,000 payments by satellite radio, Internet radio, and cable television music channels equaled out to a distribution of $89.5 million. As a record-breaking [...]

Report: SoundExchange Doled Out $292 Million In Royalties In 2011

Independent, Artist-Owned Labels Surge

Update (1/9/12): Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon is launching his own label, Chigliak Records. As the presence of major labels has begun to dwindle, a surge in independent, artist-owned labels and publishing houses has taken place to fill in the missing piece still needed to fulfill the many tasks and operations involved in releasing a record. [...]

Hiding Pieces of Sound: A Q&A With SoundCloud’s Alex Ljung

SoundCloud, a sound platform for creators, has about 7 million users worldwide. The Berlin-based startup recently secured a Series B funding from venture capital rock stars Union Square Ventures and has opened a new office in San Francisco. On the morning that I spoke to SoundCloud’s 28-year-old UK-born, Sweden-raised founder Alexander Ljung, he was checking [...]

Grooveshark Lures Record Labels Into Calmer Water

For this year’s Next BIG Nashville Presents: SoundLand, the traditional music conference has been redone as “field trips,” evoking grammar school outings to the local science center. On Thursday, a round of panels took place at The Belcourt Theater in Hillsboro Village. In a discussion about music streaming, three representatives from the Gainesville, Florida-based music [...]