One of the things that frequently happens when building your own studio in your basement or garage is that you construct it to get as much isolation as possible, then realize that the temperature inside always hovers around tropic-level heat, even while the weather is below zero outside. That’s because the last thing that most […]
Sting has opened up about death and drugs in a wide-ranging new interview with Daily Mail. In the lengthy feature, the music icon talks about the inspiration of his latest solo album, The Last Ship and the last conversation he had with his dying father – while also reflecting on his own mortality and how […]
SoundExchange, the independent performance rights organization that collects and distributes digital performance royalties, today announced its Q1 numbers. In the fiscal first quarter the nonprofit paid $162.4 million to recording artists and labels, its largest Q1 payment to date and a 38% increase over the $117 million paid out last year. The report also noted […]
How many people does it take to write a hit song? If you’re Pharrell, one. If you’re Pitbull or Jason Derulo, probably eight — or more. Billboard’s recent Hot 100 chart reflects a group of hits mainly showcasing songs written solely by an act and an additional songwriter or those with seven or eight songwriters, […]
Mariah Carey’s latest album, Me. I Am Mariah… the Elusive Chanteuse, entered the Billboard 200 chart at No. 3 with 58,000 sold, her lowest total for a non-holiday album since 1991′s Emotions entered at No. 4 with 156,000, when SoundScan first started tracking sales. Not even in her darkest days, being hospitalized for emotional exhaustion […]
Love it or hate it, Apple’s $3 billion acquisition of Beats Electronics, the tech giant’s largest acquisition to date, will have a huge impact in the music industry and beyond. Beats’ financial backers clearly benefit from the sale price. Others, from consumers to competitors, will also be affected. Here are six of the winners and […]
Three weeks after rumors broke of Apple’s purchase of Beats Electronics, the company has confirmed that it is buying the headphone and streaming music service for $3 billion, $200 million less than the originally reported amount. Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre, the company’s co-founders, will join Apple in unspecified roles as part of the deal. […]
On Wednesday Spotify revealed it now has ten million paying subscribers and 40 million active users. CEO and founder Daniel Ek spoke to Billboard about what the numbers say about where the industry and his own business is right now. Billboard: What do these growth numbers say about the current state of the industry? Daniel […]
The number of paying Spotify subscribers has grown to 10 million globally, driven by mobile usage — noting a major landmark number for the music industry as it looks to monthly streaming services as the future of the business. Yet it is the rate of growth in the music business’ No. 1 market in the […]
The most recent edition of The New Yorker magazine contains an article about neuroscientists who study the way the brain retrieves memories. What they’ve found out is probably the most important breakthrough of all time in the field of success training. How the Brain Remembers Most people think about human memory as a videotape or […]
You’ve slaved over your latest content project and you’re sure it’ll be a hit. It’s graphically interesting, packed with useful information and highly relevant to your audience. It’s time to sit back and watch it go CRAZY on social media. And if you believe that, I have some snow to sell you. Content generally doesn’t […]
The essence of mixing is the balance between instruments or mix elements. No matter how good you are at other aspects of the mixing process, if you don’t get the balance right, you don’t have a mix. Here are some questions to ask yourself as well as 6 exercises taken from my Audio Mixing Bootcamp […]
