Articles by tag: music industry
The musical landscape has seen countless artists rise to stardom, only to fade away. Yet, in a digital age where talent is abundant and opportunities seem scarce, breaking through the noise becomes more challenging than ever. At the same time, new forms of social media have challenged the way music is found and shared. Amidst…
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NFTs Shift Power to Artists as the Music Business Evolves
(Bloomberg) — The Grammy-award winning musician and producer André Anjos goes by the stage name RAC, although as a bellwether in the radical ways the music industry is evolving, he might consider changing that to NFT. Nonfungible tokens, a new type of blockchain technology that uses enforced scarcity to make digital goods collectible and valuable, have…
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The Buzz Surrounding the NFT Trend
There is a huge buzz in the industry about NFT being the new music model. But here’s the truth. While it is true that platforms like OpenSea have made it slightly easier for the general public to create NFTs, the high cost of it, the initial cost of actually listing an NFT, is prohibitive and…
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Warner Music Group Proceeds with IPO, Reflecting a Re-Stabilization of the Music Industry: Business Casual
At one time, the compact disc (CD) was so popular, so profitable that the music industry couldn’t imagine life without it…until it had to. A disruption nobody had foreseen, advances in technology are to blame for the death of the music industry’s biggest money-spinner. Spawned by file-sharing via Napster and Limewire and the launch…
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From Studio Apprentice to Hoops with Prince: The Story of an Audio Engineer
Audio engineer Collyer Spreen sat down with MarketScale to talk about his career in the industry and share some of the interesting stories he has collected over the years. From starting as an apprentice in a recording studio to playing basketball in a parking lot with Prince, Collyer has some incredible stories from his…