Music Industry
Let's collect interesting links regarding the music industry and its future here!
Collection by Ingo Vogelmann
ciechanow.ski
Sound – Bartosz Ciechanowski
20+ min · · Interactive article explaining how sound works. · Shared by 890, including Mirko Lorenz, Santiago Ortiz, @gka@vis.social, Carlos Scheidegger, Chris Messina, Colin Wright, Romain Guy, Peter Steinberger
Rolling Stone
The 100 Greatest Music Videos
2 min · · From Adele to ZZ Top — our ranked list of the best music videos of all time · Shared by 130, including Alan Sepinwall
Inc.
Taylor Swift Was 'Stripped of Her Life's Work.' Her Response Could Disrupt the Music Industry
3 min · · With her new album, Taylor Swift teaches a powerful lesson: Don't dwell on what you can't change. Focus on what you can. · Shared by 46, including Mark Schaefer, Scott Monty
The Guardian
The music streaming debate: what the artists, songwriters and industry insiders say
20+ min · · The Guardian has talked to 25 figures from the music world ahead of publication of a parliamentary report · Shared by 62
Variety
Inside the Dirty Business of Hit Songwriting
11+ min · · Sixty-four years ago, as Elvis Presley’s career reached its supernova stage, the 21-year-old singer’s team hit on a strategy that enabled him to profit from songwriting without actually writing son… · Shared by 235, including Anne Thompson, Kiki, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, Esther Schindler
The New Yorker
Genre Is Disappearing. What Comes Next?
10 min · · As record stores close and streaming algorithms dominate, the identities that music fandom supplies are in flux. · Shared by 43, including John Hagel
The Verge
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek explains how the company plans to help artists (and itself) make money
11+ min · · How Spotify plans to succeed · Shared by 54, including Polina M. Pompliano, Chris Messina, Neil Hart 💙
The Verge
Spotify HiFi is a lossless streaming tier coming later this year
1 min · · Your playlists are about to sound better than ever. · Shared by 50, including Matt Navarra, Brian Solis
Pitchfork
Rupert Neve, Legendary Audio Equipment Inventor, Dies at 94
1 min · · His mixing consoles and preamplifiers shaped the sound of recorded music in the 20th century and beyond · Shared by 18, including Maury Brown, Danielle Fong 🙋🏻♀️
The Guardian
Someone you loved: how British pop could fade out in Europe
7 min · · Brexit rule changes that make it tricky to tour the EU will hold back UK artists from a fast-growing market · Shared by 40, including Luminous Kaleidoscope, Emmy van Deurzen☀️🌍 🌻🌹🌳🇪🇺🇫🇷🇳🇱🇬🇧🇺🇸⭐️
Pitchfork
New Spotify Patent Involves Monitoring Users’ Speech to Recommend Music
1 min · · The streaming platform is interested in extracting data points like emotional state, gender, age, and accent to hone its recommendations · Shared by 46, including Thomas Fuchs , DHH, Rami Ismail (رامي)
The Guardian
Kyrgyzstan ballads, Okinawan folk, Ugandan hymns … the album rewriting global music history
4 min · · Excavated Shellac rejects the western canon of pop, rock, jazz, classical and more to champion 78rpm gems from overlooked corners of the world – ‘an alternate universe’, according to the man behind it · Shared by 75, including Esther Schindler, Neil Hart 💙
Mashable
12 ambient music sources to stream free online
5 min · · Background music to work, study, chill, and relax to. · Shared by 90, including John Rampton, rogerverhoeven, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Neil Hart 💙
Product Hunt 😸
Discoverify - Spotify's Discover Weekly But Daily
· Discoverify is a free Spotify add-on that automatically generates a personalized "Discover Daily" playlist, filled with recommendations based on your listening history. Tweak your playlist settings… · Shared by 7
billboard
The COVID-19 Stimulus Bill Would Make Illegal Streaming a Felony
2 min · · According to the text of the spending and COVID-19 relief bill being circulated, illegal streaming for commercial profit could become a felony.
Das Filter
Pole: „Vielleicht ist das Vergessen manchmal genau das Richtige“
13+ min · · Fünf Jahre hat sich Pole aka Stefan Betke Zeit gelassen für sein neues Album. Nach „Wald“, einem verführerisch-vertrackten Entwurf, zeigt „Fading“ den Berliner Produzenten in einem völlig neuen… · Shared by 5