by Kyle Boreing | Apr 3, 2017 | Commentary & Observations, Music Business, Rant
This past year marked the first time in music industry history that streaming accounted for more than half (51%) of all music sales. That means that more people are listening to music via Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, etc., than they are purchasing music directly,...
by Kyle Boreing | Mar 19, 2017 | Commentary & Observations
Cody McVey recently shared this article on his Facebook page, taking the author to task for what Cody viewed as self-righteousness, referring to such authors as “modern-day Pharisees; they are more detrimental to the Kingdom than we realize.” The article,...
by Kyle Boreing | Feb 9, 2017 | Commentary & Observations, History
“We were looking for someone who looks like a man and sings like a woman. We got the ‘sings like a woman’ part down….” Emcees have been using variations of this joke for years, and yet somehow, it always gets a laugh. It does, however,...
by David Bruce Murray | Jan 31, 2017 | Commentary & Observations
I was a Guy Penrod fan from the first time I heard him sing. That first time was in August 1995 in Spartanburg, South Carolina at Christian Supply’s Choral Festival. Each summer, church music leaders gather there to preview new music from an array of choral...