by David Bruce Murray | Jun 1, 2019 | Music Business, Music Tech
UPDATE (June 4, 2019): After a newspaper printed his obituary, Mark Twain said, “The rumors of my death are greatly exaggerated,” and that appears to be the case with iTunes…sort of. iTunes IS going away, as we reported, and the current Apple Music...
by Kyle Boreing | May 22, 2019 | Commentary & Observations, Music Business, Rant
This morning, I saw a post by a southern gospel singer (who shall remain nameless) who had received a “Platinum Award,” apparently from their radio promoter “For radio and DJ downloads.” The photo depicts what appears to be a CD cover and a...
by Kyle Boreing | Mar 28, 2019 | History, Music Business, News
I’ve covered in the past how southern gospel music has a vast library of music and film/video footage from decades of artists. I’ve also mentioned how much of this library is not controlled by large record labels or production companies, but in the hands...
by Kyle Boreing | Feb 26, 2019 | Commentary & Observations, Music Business, Music Tech
TRIVIA: What was the first southern gospel album to be released on CD? Answer is below…. Last week, I wrote (rather extensively) about what I saw as a short-term gain, long-term loss in the argument over physical music sales vs streaming. If you missed that...
by Kyle Boreing | Feb 23, 2019 | Commentary & Observations, Music Business, Music Tech
Spotify’s current pay rate per stream is around $0.006 per complete play. The average cost of a CD is $12 with around 10 songs per CD (or $1.20 per song). So one CD purchase is worth 200 album streams (this is not counting any kind of royalty and/or cost of...
by David Bruce Murray | Nov 14, 2018 | Music Business, Music Tech
Sharp-eyed readers may have noticed a link to YouTube at the bottom of my review of the new Kevin Williams product yesterday (just above the rating). I was critical of Spotify a few days ago, so now I’ll say something nice about streaming music. From a music...
