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Profits For Spotify, Pennies For Artists, Joshua R. Rosenberg
Profits For Spotify, Pennies For Artists, Joshua R. Rosenberg
Capstones
Major recording labels have always been king-making investment houses. They market the music and manage the careers of artists such as New York singer-songwriter Blake Morgan, who has to fight tooth and nail to escape being mistreated financially. But digital distribution services have now come along and upped the parasitic ante. By dominating global market share and distributing millions of songs for the labels, companies like Spotify are piggybacking on the music industry’s already exploitative system and magnifying it exponentially. The more content you control, the larger the overall profit–even if the overwhelming majority of content creators are essentially starving. …
I Am An Artist! What Do I Know About Business?, Angela Wright
I Am An Artist! What Do I Know About Business?, Angela Wright
Dept. of Organisation & Professional Development Publications
What has business to do with art? Should artists understand business? This research is concerned with the world of the artist who must operate in a business world. In the words of the late singer, Luciano Pavarotti (2003), artists must „be heard and be seen‟ to be successful. Commercial entities expose their products and services to clients to survive, and for the artist, this is no different. The paper examines if there is a need to ensure that our artistic graduates are „market ready‟, and specifically examines this concept in the context of an Irish Institute of Technology (IT). Artists …
Diy Pr: How Independent Music Artists Use Online Social Networks For Public Relations Purposes, Martina Lawless
Diy Pr: How Independent Music Artists Use Online Social Networks For Public Relations Purposes, Martina Lawless
Theses
Significance of the study: Independent musicians are a huge part of the Irish music industry and yet they are the part that do not have the backing of a record label. This means independent musicians need to look at cheap or even free ways to promote themselves to existing fans and potential new fans. With the emergence of social networks musicians both signed and independent have the tools necessary to engage in a new form DIY PR. The purpose of this study is to look at the different ways that social networks have helped musicians in recent years, but also …