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Listening to online and mobile music services is expected to grow by 15% this year, to 8.3 billion hours, and are forecast to expand another 22% in 2011, according to a report from market research firm AccuStream Research.
The report noted consolidation in the industry last year — such as the merging of Yahoo Radio and [...]

The new edition of Chris Anderson’s well-publicized book The Long Tail has the subtitle Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More. The theory for online music was that a lot more artists would make money out of their music – just not as much money as the few made before. Late last [...]

In the early days of the Web, the mantra “information wants to be free” made the rounds. In music circles now, “music wants to be shared” seems to be the idea. The big record labels, once more prone to awkward lawsuits against individual file swappers, now allow fans to play their songs free on [...]

I should have written this post ages ago. I kind of take it for granted, but forget that not everyone is fully conversant with things that I just make assumptions about. I often talk about a musician’s or music business’s web presence when public speaking or consulting. By that, I don’t mean your website, although [...]

Life seemed so much simpler in 1914, when Tin Pan Alley’s songwriters and music publishers founded the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, to protect its members’ musical copyrights. Today, the music organization still collects licensing fees from users of music created by its members, and distributes money back to them as royalties. Of [...]