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Getting It Done: The Week In D.I.Y. & Indie Music

• 4 Music Law Myths That Indie Musicians Need To Unlearn
• Tips From A Start-Up Guide For Musicians
• 6 Reasons You Think People Will Support Your Music Crowdfunding Campaign (And Why You're Wrong)
• Google Launches Free YouTube Creator Academy Courses To Maximize Your Channel

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MusicThinkTank Weekly Recap: 3 Most Profitable DIY Revenue Streams & Why Many Artists Succeed At Only One + More

• Kyle Bylin | The 3 Most Profitable DIY Revenue Streams, And Why Many Artists Succeed at Only One of Them

• Rajiv Agarwal | 10 Great Tips for Home and DIY Recording

• Jesse Cannon | The 4 Places You Should Be Entering All Of Your Concert Dates To Increase Concert Attendance

The Week's Most Read Hypebot Posts

• FREE E-Book - Divergent Streams: Refelections & Explorations of the Modern Music Industry
• Pros & Cons Of Google Play Music Subscriptions
• Top 4 Music Law Myths
• Best Time To Post On Social

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REWIND: The New Music Industry's Week In Review

• Google Play Music All Access Subscription: The Pros, The Cons and What Makes It Different
• Infographic: When Is The Best Time To Post On Social Media?
• Daft Punk's Random Access Memories Marketing Adapts Well To The Web
• Pew Study: Teens Are Moving From Facebook To Twitter
• Lively Launches Concert Recording & Sales App

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BeatDeck: Free Online & Social Metrics For Musicians

BeatDeck, a new web metrics service, launched this week with free service for musicians. It's the first stage of a larger vision but the key for musicians is the offer of a free dashboard for tracking one's social media and fan activity across multiple accounts. Definitely worth checking out to see if it will fit your needs.

Hang W/ And Upfront Debut Contrasting Approaches To Monetizing Social Media For Superfans

As musicians transform into stars, they begin to receive a lot of attention at varying levels of intensity. How to find a way to make things personal yet focus on superfans is a difficulty. Hang W/ and Upfront offer solutions that monetize social media and networks with an emphasis on videos and exclusive content.

Interview: Google Music Chief On What Makes Google Play Music All Access Different

By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm.

We’ve been writing a lot about Google’s new music subscription service this week, because of course we would. Google is a force to be reckoned with — and now, that force is reckoning with the likes of Spotify, Rdio, and Rhapsody in a bid for your $10 per month, in return for unlimited access to 20 million or so tracks on any ten computers or Android devices.

Eircom To Close Music Streaming and Download Hub

Irish ISP Eircom is closing it's music streaming and download service as of June 30th. Indie labels licencing via Merlin were informed in an email this morning. No reason for the closure was given, but Eirsom has said it will report and pay royalties for all usage up until closing.

International Music Summit Ibiza 2013: Day 2 [EVENT RECAP & VIDEO]

Fame House's Hisham Dahud is in Ibiza, Spain helping put on the International Music Summit. IMS is a high level music industry conference attended by the global industry leaders in the dance music scene and signals the official launch of the Ibiza season.

The sixth International Music Summit kicked off Wednesday May 22^nd, 2013 from the gorgeous Ibiza Gran Hotel on the island of Ibiza, Spain. The vibe was electric, as the sold out event drew in people from all parts of the dance music space from around the globe including artists, producers, managers, publishers, digital agencies, bloggers, lawyers, club owners, and more.

Arrested Development Radio Is Here With Bluthify.me

By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm.

If you were to build an online radio station that could channel characters from Arrested Development, what would you call it?

Clearly, “Bluthify.”

Daft Punk's New Album, Single Set Spotify Records With 27 Million Streams

Since it's release last Monday, 20th May, Daft Punk’s album ’Random Access Memories’  has already set a number of records on Spotify including the single ‘Get Lucky’ being streamed over 27 million times.  If trends hold, ‘Random Access Memories’ will top Mumford & Son's ‘Babel’ as the most streamed album ever in the week of release for the US. More Daft Punk firsts on Spotify:

After Pandora Earnings Reports, Slacker CEO Reminds Why Competitor May Never Be Profitable

Minutes after Pandora reported record, but still unprofitable, earnings and user growth, Slacker CEO Jim Cady took aim at his competitor's business model: “Pandora grew revenue, but will continue to struggle with profitability until they rethink their licensing structure,” Cady said.  “Controlling costs by punishing users with a listening cap is a dicey strategy; we’re seeing our audience grow by 10-15% in the second half of every month as Pandora users hit the cap and come to Slacker.

NEWS BRIEF: Simmons Inks HBO Deal, The EDM Bubble, Billy Joel, Showscoop, Deezer & More

FRIDAY 5.24.2013

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Pandora Reports: 70M Active Users, 2.5M Paid Subscribers, Revenue Up 55%

“Mobile listening hours and mobile ad revenue reached record highs, with growth in mobile ad revenue exceeding growth in mobile listening hour, said Joe Kennedy, Chairman & CEO of Pandora as the music streamer reported to Wall Street today. "Pandora’s subscriber base surpassed 2.5 million, adding more net new subscribers in the quarter than in all of fiscal 2013, giving Pandora the largest US streaming subscriber base of any music service.”

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6 Reasons You Think People Will Support Your Music Crowdfunding Campaign (And Why You're Wrong)

By Ian Anderson of music crowdfunding blog Launch + Release.

As a musician, you typically have no problem imagining how awesome your new idea is going to turn out…

It’s sorta like picturing how your ex will suddenly take you back when they hear your song.

Daft Punk's Random Access Memories Marketing Adapts Well To The Web

Daft Punk is back with a wide-ranging marketing campaign for their new album "Random Access Memories." Though using teasers and promos is normal for high profile albums, Daft Punk has brought a special flair to their promotions that has been matched in many respects by the response of their fans to their return. Though Daft Punk can't help but reference the past, they adapt well to the web.

4 Music Law Myths That Indie Musicians Need To Unlearn

By Mita Carriman Esq. (@nymusiclawyer), NYC entertainment lawyer at Carriman Law Group and band manager.

As an entertainment attorney who was once an indie artist myself involved in a few different artistic disciplines, I know that the bridge between law and art doesn't always seem straightforward. There's certainly a lot of gray area, which could lead a person to probably think that the law would be one way, when it isn't. Through my work, I've frequently encountered several myths regarding music law that I hope can eventually go away! While there are much more than 4, I found that these were especially common:

Special Music Event? Splash Offers A Solid Free Combo Of Promo Website, Email & Ticketing

Splash is an events website that provides serve yourself event pages, email and ticketing services for special events. It looks great, but at first I considered it overkill for most musicians' needs until reading some of Solveig Whittle's comments about using Splash for a special CD release party. Yesterday I spoke with her a bit more about her experience of using Splash and why it was particularly appropriate for supporting a unique event.

Twitter #Music Launches Charts

A month after launch, Twitter #Music is certainly not setting the world on fire, In fact ,as of yesterday it had fallen out of the top 100 free music apps. They are, however, already iterating to improve the offering. Today, Twitter added charts that look very similar to those previously found on WeAreHunted, the innovative music discovery startup that Twitter acquired to power much of #Music.

International Music Summit Ibiza 2013: Day 1 [EVENT RECAP & VIDEO]

Fame House's Hisham Dahud is currently in Ibiza, Spain helping put on the International Music Summit. IMS is a high level music industry conference attended by the global industry leaders in the dance music scene and signals the official launch of the Ibiza season. These are his reports from the island.

The sixth International Music Summit kicked off Wednesday May 22^nd, 2013 from the gorgeous Ibiza Gran Hotel on the island of Ibiza, Spain. The vibe was electric, as the sold out event drew in people from all parts of the dance music space from around the globe including artists, producers, managers, publishers, digital agencies, bloggers, lawyers, club owners, and more.

NEWS BRIEF: Springsteen Fan Film, Yap +Music, Daft Punk Hits, Shazam & Rdio Upgrade, RIAA Yanks 20M Links & More

THURSDAY 5.23.2013

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Pandora Makes Sharing Music On Facebook Easier

Pandora today launched a new Timeline app and site upgrades that make it easier to share music on Facebook. Pandora lusers can customize what they want to share (songs, radio, etc) with music activity appearing in the News Feed, Activity Log and Music section of timeline as determined by Facebook's ranking algorithms.

Amazon & Book Publishers Just Made Music Industry Look Like Neanderthals

UPDATED: Who knew that the people running book publishing empires were far more forward thinking than your average music exec? After all, they are still, for the most part, peddling paper.  But Amazon's new deal to licence some of publishing's most popular franchises, and enable writers to make money selling fan fiction, served as a reminder of how much the music industry remains stuck in the stone age.

Fan Fiction Authors Are To Books What DJs Are To Music

Teens Are Moving From Facebook To Twitter [Pew Study]

UPDATED: Facebook adoption and use by teens is flattening off, according to a new Pew Research study.  But Twitter uses is slowly but steadily growing. Eight in ten online teens use some kind of social media, says Pew. Twitter is still not in the same league as Facebook, which attracts 77% of online teens. Still, 24% of online teens now use Twitter, a figure that is up from 16% in 2011. 16% of online adults are Twitter users.

DIY Music Tech News: SoundCloud x Songkick, Piki, Topspin x Dropbox, Google+ Hangouts

Iteration is today's music tech news theme as multiple startups continue to take solid steps forward most of which involve DIY music tools. SoundCloud offers another space to post Songkick concert dates. Piki takes its mobile music app to the desktop. Topspin offers a Dropbox integration and Google+ Hangouts introduced numerous improvements.