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How Spotify Changed Music We used to listen to music on our mobile devices in private. Now, we share our listening activities to Facebook and show our friends the song we are currently playing. If they want to, they can even tune in and listen with us. Rather than listen to music alone, we now listen together. And of course, we now listen to playlists over albums. Indeed, what once seemed like a utopia to many listeners — having free, ad-supported access to millions of songs on your desktop and paying to take them anywhere you go — has become a new reality. Debate Surrounding Immigration Should Focus on Economics, Not Politics By Detroit Free Press - FEB. 27, 2012 The following, written by Mayor Bloomberg and Governor Rick Snyder, appeared in the Detroit Free Press. What do Jeremy Lin of the Knicks and Nicklas Lidstrom of the Red Wings have in common? Both owe their success to immigration – and both are creating jobs and strengthening our economy.
Lefsetz Letter My car radio broke. I turned it on and all I got was static. Now my friend Jeff says it’s because I started my car with the a/c on, but I’d never had a problem previously. And then I realized I could get FM, but the tuner skipped over Sirius, and on XM I got the aforementioned static. Yes, I have both in my car, it’s a legacy from when the outlets were different. And to tell you the truth, I still used both, each tuner had pluses and minuses.
The Top 20 Music Blogs We often discuss which bands are getting the most online buzz, like in the 50 most blogged artists list. But who is talking about these bands and creating the buzz? Enter this list of the most influential music blogs. In fact, Style of Sound created a list of the top 100. They included web-only sites, so none of these blogs that are associated with print magazines, newspapers, or radio stations. I’ve included the top 20 here so you can see who the major players are. sciencedaily AI Artificial Intelligence May Fall Short When Analyzing Data Across Multiple Health Systems Nov. 9, 2018 — A new study shows deep learning models must be carefully tested across multiple environments before being put into clinical ... read more Oct. 25, 2018 — Researchers present a quantum error correction system that is capable of learning thanks to artificial ... read more Where Deep Learning Meets Metamaterials
Top Analyst Reviews Spotify's Financials, Declares Business "Unsustainable" [CHART] PrivCo, a financial analysis firm focusing on private companies, got a look at Spotify's just closed full year financials and declared the music streamer's business model "alarming" and "unsustainable". While Spotify revenue jumped 151% in 2011 to $244 Million, "virtually every new dollar of revenue went directly to music companies as royalty payments, evidencing the fact that the more members Spotify adds, the more money the company loses". It's a problem that Pandora and most other ad supported music services are facing , as well. Spotify's 2011 cost for 311 employees also grew 173% year over year, according to PrivCo, "outpacing revenue growth, and adding to the red flags that this business model needs to address".
SFX Acquires TMWRK Management, The Meta Agency, and Learned Evolution... It’s been a while since we’ve heard from SFX Entertainment and their quest to buy up all of EDM. Now, the massive dance music-oriented entertainment corporation has acquired three more companies. SFX Entertainment has now acquired TMWRK Management, The Meta Agency, and Learned Evolution.
Music Blogs That Want YOUR Music! Getting your music heard is hard. Getting your music heard by the right people is even harder. You hear so many blogs, journalists and other industry big names complaining about unsolicited PR emails from bands, so it’s difficult to know where to tread. This is why we have set up this blog post, containing info and links to all the influential sites and blogs who not only accept these emails but welcome them. But before you start emailing, here’s a quick word of warning. As IFPI releases its ‘Investing In Music’ report, what role do record labels play in 2012? Tuesday 13 November 2012, 13:12 | By CMU Editorial Business News Labels & Publishers Top Stories Hey record company haters, gather round here and listen to this. YouTube Games Copyright Law To Avoid License Fees, IFPI Says Music industry group IFPI says that artists are not being paid fairly for the use of their music and the blame for that can be laid at the feet of services such as YouTube and Soundcloud. IFPI says that instead of buying licenses such as those obtained by Spotify, these services effectively game copyright law to gain an unfair commercial advantage. While the diminishing revenues of the major recording labels have been a hot topic for many years, it’s only relatively recently that the debate over artists’ earnings has found itself almost constantly in the news. A decade-and-a-half of disruptive technology has certainly played its part, but without that turmoil the music industry might still be playing catch up today. At any rate, the rise of online piracy arguably provided a much needed wake-up call and prompted the rise of dozens of legitimate music services. “It is true that artists and record producers are not being paid fairly for the use of their music.
The End of Music Blogs as We Know Them Photo by Jacob Moore, in my apartment, as I write this When I started Pigeons & Planes in 2008, I didn’t even know what the word “blog” meant. I only started the site because Eskay, from my favorite website Nah Right, stopped responding to my requests for a job. I had absolutely no idea what I was doing. My marketing plan involved going to the most popular music videos on YouTube and commenting: “PIGEONS AND PLANES. GOOGLE IT!” Next Time Someone Suggests Piracy Will Kill Music, Remind Them That Music Survived The Last Ice Age Music predates agriculture. That's something I suppose I always knew, but had never thought about in such clear terms until Bryan Kim illustrated it in a talk at SFMusicTech with a photo of a 35,000-year-old bone flute. This places music before farming and written language on the timeline of humanity, right alongside the earliest known cave paintings in Europe, at the very least. By comparison, recorded music has only been around for a little over a century.