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Unlike most aspects of the music industry, ticketing has remained largely untouched by the hands of time - save for digitalization. Ticket digitalization has streamlined the process of buying tickets significantly. However, with increasing digitalization comes greater ticket reselling through third-party platforms. These platforms make it easy to sell show tickets at drastic price increases.Tickets ending up on secondary markets is often a huge disadvantage to both artists and fans. To…

artistic value of the musician; additionally, it’s one of the best ways for up-and-coming acts to acquire fans. Gaining traction in the music world can seem daunting and impossible. Can one be blamed for taking an opportunity to reach new listeners? Record sales have plummeted over the last twenty years, MTV—ironically enough—doesn’t play music anymore, and many people use a streaming service in the car;…

For the past three years, Record of the year has been given to songs that had features with it (probably doesn't make a difference.) The mixture of beat and music in it is really good, Mark Ronson did a good job on engineering the song. I mean, this song was my jam for 2015. The…

Each year, each decade and each era is marked with certain sounds promulgating and spreading far and wide during those times. This dynamic of what would be the favored form of music is perhaps the only constant thing in changing times. For the present, the tides in the music industry have never been so diverse. While pop is still dominating the charts, other genres, which were previously churning under the water, are now breaking through the surface - slowly introduced into the masses of…

The music industry is changing more and more every day, and as time moves on it will continue to change as the cycles come into there prime and fall out of there prime. I truly believe that Grooveshark was initially moving in the right direction, or at least I believe there end goals were in line with where the industry looks to be going. The part of Grooveshark’s strategy that I could never agree with was the fact that they allowed others do the dirty work for them. The process in which they…

Artist's music in advertising is a hotly debated subject in today's society. This topic should definitely be opposed. Artist music advertising is a way for music artists to help a company sell their products with a catchy tune or song. Sometimes it's a trick for you so they can make money even though the product is really useless. In the world today everything's a trick. First of all, "Endorsement deals can keep a musician afloat, but it can also take the focus away from what really…

Should musicians use their music in advertisements? A question that has spawned lots of debate in the music world. Musicians using their music in advertisements and allowing their music to be streamed on Spotify has been a good thing. Musicians want their names to be out there. They want more fans to listen to their music. Musicians using music on Spotify or ads is not selling out, its smart. In recent years music has gone into the digital age where it can now be played on iTunes, Spotify and…

Yanchuan Guo Prof. Emily Perez English 101A February,20 2016 Annotated Bibliography Source 1 Greenblatt, Alan. "Future of the Music Industry." CQ Researcher 21 Nov. 2003: 989-1012. Web. 20 Feb. 2016. Greenblatt’s text explains the impact of free downloading music from the internet in recent years. Many music producers start to sell their licensed music in a low price against piracy. But many people wonder if this way of selling music will remain profitable in the future. He also believes that…

sales. The first half of 2014 showed streaming bring in $834 million compared to $905 million in sales. In 2015, streaming revenue topped physical sales at $1,028 million to $748 million. (Richter) The majority of this revenue still goes to major record labels and artists. For the lesser known folks out there, the best way to make money might be Bandcamp. Bandcamp leaves everything price-wise upto the artist to decide for fans to directly pay to them. Artists can choose how many of their songs…

about the recording, distribution, and marketing processes. As such, Polyphonic also does not own the master recordings for their artists. However, they have the right to use the copyright during the 10 years for which the artists are signed to the label. One of the biggest successes with this model is that artists have much more freedom to decide how they produce their music and how their music is marketed, thus appealing to more artists. However, one of the failures of this model, in terms of…