by Kyle Boreing | Apr 29, 2023 | Commentary & Observations, Music Business, Music Tech
Brief history lesson – when recorded music first became a viable product, it came with an inherent limitation – length. Whether it was some power hungry crook who stole patents Thomas Edison’s cylinder phonograph or early shellac discs spinning at 78...
by Kyle Boreing | Jul 26, 2022 | Commentary & Observations, Music Business, Music Tech
In May of 2020 (just as the pandemic began to really take hold globally), I wrote an article about how it could potentially impact the gospel music industry, especially live presentations. In hindsight, one of the solutions discussed may have been a double-edged...
by David Bruce Murray | Oct 18, 2021 | Church Music, Music Business
Part of my “real job” includes directing music at a mid-sized church in North Carolina. Last week I received a typical email from Daywind Music asking me to buy their latest soundtracks, but the first item on the list mentioned a change in Daywind’s...
by Kyle Boreing | May 7, 2020 | Commentary & Observations, Music Business, News
Coronavirus. COVID19. Wuhan. China. Sorry, just trying to get some keyword impact on my post… Yes, the #1 topic anywhere and everywhere you look is THE VIRUS and how it has impacted life as we know it around the world. In the United States, most states have...
by David Bruce Murray | Jan 21, 2020 | Commentary & Observations, Music Business, News, Singing News
Some Southern Gospel DJs are expressing disappointment with new reporting requirements for the Singing News Top 80 airplay chart. They must now turn in a computer-generated spin count of songs played on their station along with their report. Some complaints include:...
by Kyle Boreing | Jan 16, 2020 | Commentary & Observations, Music Business, Music Tech
When an album “drops,” it’s industry slang for saying an album has been released to the public. It’s origins come from the newspaper industry, where delivery trucks would drop bundles of newspapers off at news stands on city streets. It’s...
