On October 19th, ASCAP will honor Tiny for her contributions as a songwriter. This is apart of the Annual ASCAP Presents…..Women Behind The Music Series. As you know Tiny was behind many huge hits when she was with 90s group Xscape. She was also the brains behind “No Scrubs” (TLC) along with Kandi Burruss. “We created the Women […]
That’s according to Pandora founder Tim Westergren, who was stumping for lower royalty rates on Tuesday in San Francisco. And part of his complicated pitch was that successful artists are making a lot of money off the Pandora platform. ”There are artists making more than $2 million from Pandora,” Westegren told attendees at SF Music Tech […]
Add Live Nation chairman Irving Azoff to the list of people who think it’s harder, not easier, for artists to make it in the music business these days. And according to Azoff, part of the problem is that it’s easier to make music than ever before, with less monetization, a stark contrast to the ‘golden age’ […]
The following guest post comes from longtime music industry attorney Steve Gordon. If Apple wants to launch their much anticipated, Pandora-like music service, they must negotiate directly withSony/ATV for public performance rights. That’s the word on the street, and if true, a dangerous turn of events. The reason is that until recently, performing rights organizations […]
