The Web made licensing music drastically more efficient. Now a small button on the ubiquitous SoundCloud streaming player makes licensing music even easier. SoundCloud, a music hosting and sharing platform with more than 20 million users, has partnered with music licensing platform Getty Images to bring together their groups of creators and licensors. […]
Speaking of essential reading, Don Passman’s industry bible All You Need to Know About the Music Business will be released in its eighth edition Dec. 4. Be assured the dust jacket will be loaded with endorsements from high-profile figures. For example, Katy Perry says, “I read this book when I was 13 and then things turned out okay for me.” […]
Happy birthday, Billboard’s Nielsen BDS-based Pop Songs chart! Two decades in, the ranking continues to track the trends at, and reveal the realities of, U.S. mainstream top 40 radio. The chart’s 20th anniversary – it launched the week of Oct. 3, 1992 – also coincides with an unprecedented pure pop boom, as mainstream top 40 […]
