the-economics-of-girl-talk

He is a music sensation, but Girl Talk neither sings nor plays an instrument. He plays music off reinforced Toughbook laptops protected from his sweat by layers of plastic wrap.

Pursuing the Psychological Building Blocks of Music - Behavioral Scientist

Humans are wired to produce and understand music, suggest researchers in an ambitious new study. Despite the evidence, not everyone is likely to be convinced.

Anatomy Of A Pirate

Using Spotify to measure the popularity of older music

I have a theory: No Diggity by Blackstreet is timeless. If Frank Sinatra is timeless in 2015, so too is No Diggity in 2050, fondly remembered by our children's children as the icon of the 90s. And I think that I can prove it.

Piracy Is What Made Me, Says Ed Sheeran

While piracy is often demonized as an aspect of the industry which ruins careers before they've even really begun, the reality is that the illicit dissemination of music can in. Continue reading

Winamp’s woes: How the greatest MP3 player undid itself

15 years on, Winamp “still lives”—but mismanagement blunted its llama-whipping.

Crowd Patronage: How A 400 Year Old Model Can Save The Music Ind...

“A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human...

The Art Of Playlist Stuffing - Music 3.0 Music Industry Blog

Streaming is having a tremendous influence on song form these days, but that can now be extended to a strategy known as playlist stuffing.

Art, Commerce, and Zamfir: Selling Music on TV

Not sold in stores. Duhhhhhh.Neatorama is proud to bring you a guest post from Ernie Smith, the editor of Tedium, a twice-weekly newsletter that hunts for the end of the long tail. In another life, he ran ShortFormBlog.How the music industry’s TV-driven direct marketing…

Why Do We Even Listen to New Music?

Our brains reward us for seeking out what we already know. So why should we reach to listen to something we don’t?

Justin Timberlake And The AC/DC Rule

A lesson from the Australian classic rockers explains why the pop star's newest album, which hasn't generated glowing reviews or massive radio hits, still had an explosive opening sales week.

How Artists Get Paid From Streaming

We explain how your money gets from you to a streaming platform, and finally to an artist.

How Much Does It Cost To Make A Hit Song?

We go step-by-step through the making of Rihanna's song "Man Down." Bringing in top songwriters and producers costs tens of thousands of dollars. Trying to turn the song into a hit costs much more.

The Dark Art of Mastering Music

Shedding light on the elusive studio practice that’s all but necessary to make music sound great.

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Is Music Universal?

From a neurological and evolutionary perspective, music is fascinating. There seems to be a deeply rooted biological appreciation for tonality, rhythm, and melody. Not only can people find certain sequences of sounds to be pleasurable, they can powerfully evoke emotions. Music…

Could This Be The End Of Hidden Ticket Charges For Concert Tickets?

Hidden ticket charges and more have been outlawed in New York State thanks to new legislature that just passed.

‘More than a song’: the enduring power of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah

In a new documentary, fans and experts explore the legacy of a song that was originally shunned before becoming a timeless classic

Hacker News

What we can learn from technology that’s designed to be stepped on

How Much Is Michael Bolton Worth to You? (Published 2013)

There’s a reason scalpers have confused economists for decades.

Metadata is the biggest little problem plaguing the music industry

It’s a crisis that has left, by some estimations, billions on the table unpaid to musicians

How CDBaby Built 20,000 Citations With One E-Mail

CDBaby* is an online distributor of independent music. Founded by well-known entrepreneur Derek Sivers, the service became a huge hit with independent

AllMusic: The Story of the Big Data Jukebox

When AllMusic launched 25 years ago, it wasn't an obvious big data play. But it became one. Hidden in its millions of entries is music's collective history.

RapGenius Growth Hack Exposed

Yesterday RapGenius posted the following announcement on their Facebook page: As a contributor to various blogs and an endearing fan of RapGenius, I took

The Awkward Truth Behind Skip Rates

With the ubiquity of music access and a lack of any need for patience, the term "skip-rate" has crept into the modern music industry lexicon, and some new data behind. Continue reading

Full Stack Music: 1 Trillion Streams, 200 Million Tickets | TechCrunch

At present, there are three distinct music industries: radio, on-demand music, and concert ticketing. However, we are starting to enter a new phase, where these industries will converge and produce one integrated experience for artists and fans. I’ve taken to calling this full…

The Dark Science of Pop Music

Record companies are tracking download and search data to predict which new songs will be hits. This has been good for business—but is it bad for music?

Tidal and the Future of Music

Predicting success and failure is about understanding who has leverage. In the case of music, the winners will be the labels, not the artist. But perhaps there is hope for tomorrow

Show your musical taste with data: The best analytics tools for Spotify

Spotify analytics for listeners is how the popular streaming service also captures the hearts of its users. Many websites allow

Why Captain Beefheart’s ‘Trout Mask Replica’ Still Sounds Like Tomorrow

Captain Beefhart's 'Trout Mask Replica' remains one of the ultimate tests of how far you are willing to go to give yourself up to music.

A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs

How a Saxophonist Tricked the KGB by Encrypting Secrets in Music

Using a custom encryption scheme within music notation, Merryl Goldberg and three other US musicians slipped information to Soviet performers and activists known as the Phantom Orchestra.

Melody Angel is Big Mama Thornton-meets-Hendrix and Chicago’s next big blues star

Record Labels Dig Their Own Grave. And the Shovel is Called TikTok.

It's not just the music biz—legacy media outlets everywhere are playing the same dangerous game. Here's how it will play out.

Bootsy Collins, positively helping to keep the funk alive

At the beginning of lockdown, the legendary funk bassist began posting uplifting messages to Instagram, where they found a receptive audience in drummer Adam Deitch of the band Lettuce.

The Obsessive World of Digital Music Collectors

Remember downloading songs? Even in 2022, it’s still a viable—and rewarding—way to collect music.

Like The Linda Lindas, this teen girl band in Benin makes you dance — and t

The 7-member band hails from a conservative part of the country. They sing about female genital cutting, child marriage and gender equality. And they rock.

All 340 Bruce Springsteen Songs, Ranked

Weighing in on every original, officially released composition — including his latest album, Letter to You, and “I’ll Stand by You.”

‘People took so many drugs, they forgot they played on it’ – stars on Exile on Main St, the Rolling Stones’ sprawling masterpiece

Recorded during several hedonistic months in a fabulous Cote d’Azur villa, Exile on Main St is seen as the Stones’ epic, creative peak. As the classic album turns 50, stars tell us how it got their rocks off

The Untold Story of the White House’s Weirdly Hip Record Collection

Jimmy Carter’s grandson, John Chuldenko, is unlocking White House mysteries. The record collection is an archive of the nation's music taste back in the 70's.

Why We Remember Music and Forget Everything Else

Psychologists say it's no surprise that we have such a strong memory for music and can easily recall lyrics and melodies, even if we haven’t heard them in years.

‘Oscar Peterson: Black + White’ Review: A Giant of Jazz Piano

A pantheon of musical lights pay homage to this brilliant musician.

How does Shazam work? Music Recognition Algorithms, Fingerprinting, and Processing | Toptal®

The Shazam music recognition application made it finally possible to put a name to that song on the radio. But how does this magical miracle actually work? In this article, Toptal Freelance Software Engineer Jovan Jovanovic sheds light on the principles of audio signal…

The Legend of the Music Tree

Exotic lumber salvaged from a remote forest in Belize is the world’s most coveted tonewood

All The Music: the Megamix

Or a clickbait title: How I became the world’s most prolific DJ, using code.This week I stumbled across a cool project: All The Music.Da...

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Tibetan Musical Notation Is Beautiful

Religions take the cast and hue of the cultures in which they find root. This was certainly true in Tibet when Buddhism arrived in the 7th century. It transformed and was transformed by the native religion of Bon.

One of the Greatest Movies About Jazz

A MOMA retrospective of Larry Clark’s films includes “Passing Through,” which dramatized the jazz world from the inside.

How Hip-Hop Is Becoming the Oldies (Published 2015)

Part demographic inevitability, part data-driven corporate genius.

A Quest to Return the Banjo to Its African Roots

The Black Banjo Reclamation Project aims to put banjos into the hands of everyday people.