Better ways to music industry

It seems to me that there are a lot of forces in the music business whose goal is to provide content as cheaply as possible. I hate the word ‘content’, but it’s what they use. They’ve been engaged in all these different processes of trying to reduce the cost of content, and it seems realistic to imagine that there will probably be other schemes tha... See more

Properly capturing the value of music globally requires investment, policies, education and political commitment to ensure that music—as property—can be owned, managed, monetized, and taxed.

Musicians (and every other kind of artist for that matter) should revel in our inefficiencies. An overly-optimized creative process is at risk of forfeiting precisely what is most precious to it — idiosyncrasies, mistakes, accidents, spiritual urges, and other crucial intangibles.

Taking a cue from the adoption of CDP (Customer Data Platform) technology in other industries, an “FDP” or “Fan Data Platform” is needed, combined with an open ecosystem of plugins to integrate data from many sources to give a complete profile of each fans interaction with an artist. Essentially, Segment.com for the music industry, if you are famil... See more

I know a ton of people, from when I started researching in 2021, at public libraries around the United States and Canada that have been working on local music streaming programmes, where they pay small flat fees to local artists to license their music for these small-scale, locally focused music streaming programmes.

The perceived value of a given piece of software must urgently be communicated, and many brands are either unwilling or unable to invest the creative and material resources required to create music-making tools that are truly unique and intrinsically valuable. The most efficient approach, then, is to simply build a value proposition on efficiency i... See more