In MT’s 2018 Music Tech News Roundup, host Dmitri Vietze and regular guest Tristra Newyear Yeager explored some of the deep seismic shifts i

Cherie explores how music is merging more and more with other creative industries including e-sports, film and TV, social media filters, and

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 When radio emerged, as a society, America decided to allow radio stations to trade radio airplay for record promotion for record labels. Thousands of potential music fans would find out about new recordings through radio airwaves. The recording studios and labels would profit from those sales. The radio stations would profit by selling advertisements around that music and other programming. When Pandora emerged as a leader of streaming music, their model

Read Part 1 and Part 2 While prices went down for an overall album, over time, the music industry transformed into a singles business. Much of the pricing structure of recorded music has always been related to the physical format and capacity in which music reaches the ears of fans. Two-sided vinyl singles and LPs determined the length of a recording. Marketing and distribution budgets were determined based on these capacities. As things shifted to digital, the concept and ef

AccuRadio, the fastest growing webcaster, knows it’s coming, every year: the telltale spike in listening to the sounds of romance, sharp as Cupid’s arrow. In 2015, the listenership of AccuRadio’s most lovey-dovey channels jumped in early February by more than 50% from the month before, as hopeful lovers tuned in to hear everything from golden oldies and recent romantic hits, to the romance of Beautiful Music or the yearning of a good country love ballad. Comparing five-week p