I agree with Maarten on new #Music economies to grow new fields of #MusicIndustry.
We are building #PublMe since 2020.
Music needs quality and value. #Musicians need #Monetization. Everyone needs support.
"Music drives our lives, we all know this. And yet music gets continually devalued. It’s there, and then - due to its sonic properties - it dissipates. When we are able to capture music in a solid form, it can retain and grow its value... But, we cannot live without music just like we can’t live without oxygen." https://musicx.substack.com/p/we-need-new-music-economies

AllMusic Best of 2023 - results and review.
https://www.allmusic.com/blog/post/allmusics-best-of-2023
#Music #Musicians #MusicIndustry #artists #AllMusic

Spotify has laid off 2,300 employees this year. That’s a shock – but also kind of inevitable.On: Promises made at Investor Days, Christmas Walks, and Daniel Ek's long-term aim for his shareholders
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"Let’s be positive and say that the world is shifting towards a more sustainable approach to life on our planet. We can’t rely on return to old ways. Earth has changed and we cannot undo that. Instead, we have to create a cultural shift to engage our changed planet towards a sustainable future. We can use music to communicate, to empower, and to create. Through these efforts music can participate in expanding our bio-cultural diversity. Let’s make it happen and harness music to help us move to a more sustainable future." #Music #artists #world

Alphabet/Google is now in the music rights management business buying stake in Broadcast Music Incorporated (BMI). Expect fireworks. Very interesting.
#MusicIndustry #MusicBusiness #Google #MusicTechnology #AI #Google #BMI
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/3-observations-on-the-sale-of-bmi-and-googles-entrance-into-music-rights-management/

Most of #artists and #Producers as well as #Musicians will not get ANY royalties next year from #Spotify.
I personally understand the background but can't agree. If you want to keep your topline growing or at least stay at the same level and feed so-called business "elite" please use other ways to do this. So many talents are there below this 1000-streams threshold!
#FairSpotify #MusicIndustry #MusicIndustry #majorlabels

Hey @JACKBOYTHAGOAT if this has happened please ask in the Distribution Dashboard, there is a Contact section to send directly to the distribution team

The PublMe Space version has been updated with several improvements and UI/UX fixes - now it is [v.1.9.3.8a].
The most important thing is that we focus on creators, authors and artists as ourselves and one of the features added is "Annotations" to videos and audio files (media-player) for convenient projects management during your collaboration process.
More updates are coming soon 💫🌌 Stay tuned!
#PublmeUpdates #PublmeNews #Collaboration #Space #PublMe

Goodhertz Releases FREE Loudness Plugin.
Goodhertz released Loudness, a free loudness meter VST plugin for Windows and macOS. This November has been a banner month for freebies...
#free #plugin #Tools #VST

Hello guys, let's consider this ❗
#Spotify just announced three ways they intend to change how they pay royalties, and one of the policies includes not paying royalties to artists whose earnings fall below a minimum threshold.
What will they do with all those #royalties from independent artists?
Answer is - mostly redistribute 💰 to the #majors. Starting from Q1 2024.
#FairSpotify #Musicians #artists #indie #indepedent #Distribution #decentralization
https://musicindustryblog.wordpress.com/2023/10/24/two-tier-licensing-is-about-to-become-a-reality/
There is a YT video from Disc Makers CEO 👇

Posted in May about 1,500 Music Producers How They Use AI in Music Production.
- How many people use AI now and what is the quality?
#AI #musicproduction #tools #musicians #artists #producers #BPB

Acustica Audio #free Halloween #plugin called Pumpkin is here for AA users as usually.

Introducing Beatport Studio, a new cost-effective subscription model for plugins and samples. Beatport has launched Beatport Studio, a brand-new platform which combines Loopcloud, Loopmasters and Plugin...

Max MSP Beginners Guide: Presentation Mode and presets for your synthesizer. If you haven’t caught up on the previous four tutorials where we go through the basic tools needed to use Max MSP, how to build...

Why artist subscriptions are the perfect partner to two-tier licensingWith two-tier licensing now a thing, it is time to focus the discussion on how to add new components to the DSP ecosystem that will help long-tail artists continue to thrive in this brave new world. There are many positives that two-tier licensing will bring (helping mid-tier artist remuneration, attaching an appropriate premium to lean-forward listening, etc.) even if the streaming fraud efforts will likely soon be offset by bot farms increasing their minimum streams thresholds. But the potential downturn to long-tail artist income is a very real prospect. Not only could artist subscriptions re-level the playing field, but self-releasing artists (artists direct) also have an opportunity here that label artists do not.

For more years than we care to remember we have made the case for artist subscriptions, most recently in this MIDiA report. The data in the report shows that what fans want to pay for most (and by some margin) is early access to music, exclusive merchandise, and songs. On one hand, this makes artists subscriptions relatively low effort, as there is no need to produce backstage access videos or host live Q&As, among other things. On the other hand, it is problematic for record labels that have to consider factors such as release campaigns driving large stream volumes to trigger the algorithms, and commercial agreements with DSPs that can complicate exclusives. Artists direct, however, have no such constraints. 

MIDiA’s data shows strong willingness among fans to pay, up to $5 an artist. But, if a long-tail artist was to price their subscription at just fifty cents, it would only take five fans to subscribe to generate the same amount of income a thousand streams would. Get that to ten fans (surely eminently achievable for many long-tail artists) and they would be earning double the minimum stream threshold of the two-tier system. It is a mechanism that enables DSP streaming to deliver on the elusive long tail promise and, to boot, everyone wins:

Artists direct get income that is more meaningful income than in today’s one-tier system

Bigger artists continue to get a more meaningful share of streaming royalties

The beauty of this approach is that the infrastructure is already in place, it just needs a little tweak. In August, Spotify and Patreon announced a new initiative for podcasters, enabling them to create premium subscriptions for exclusive podcast content. Artist subscriptions thus already exist on Spotify, they are just not called artists subscriptions, yet.

Starting in 2024, Spotify and other DSPs face a delicate balancing act. They must navigate the demands of larger rightsholders – a term that covers not only major labels but also a very large number of indie labels and publishers of all shapes and sizes. At the same time, they are going to have to convince the wider creator community that they are there for them. 

This is particularly pertinent because DSP streaming no longer hold a monopoly over music creators. In 2022, the number of creators releasing outside of the traditional digital supply chain grew twice as fast as those releasing into streaming. This is the second successive year that this has been the case. A forking is taking place. These creators are choosing share their music on platforms like TikTok, YouTube, Soundcloud, BandLab, Discord, Twitch, Instagram, etc. rather than risk getting lost in the DSP ocean. From a creator economy perspective this is no bad thing, in fact, it will probably be a good thing. However, from a DSP perspective, they will want to utilise every resource at their disposal to position themselves as the most attractive platform for artists.