Music Xray is a platform used by over 600 music industry professionals to receive song submissions from artists, acts, & rights holders. The company is announcing the launch of a new song to opportunity matching service called S₂O that automatically pairs songs to opportunities.
Artists simply upload their songs at MusicXray.com and wait to be alerted when appropriate opportunities for their songs are identified. The new service is completely free and marks the first time music analysis technology has been combined with other talent-identifying tools to form the world’s first and only enhanced A&R platform.
I read about this in one of Bob Lefsetz’ emails and when I watched the video I knew I had to pass it along. This is so interesting and for anyone who doesn’t know what goes into taking a song from a guy and a guitar to a full blown record it’s a thrilling [...]
This week I feature Jonathan Clay, Mark Johns & Esteven Johnson & Mary Sarah. I discuss how to network with industry professionals in the music business.
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Last Wednesday, Pandora’s founder Tim Westergren appeared on The Colbert Report as the episode’s interviewee. I’ve written about Tm before on this blog and remember back to late 2001 when I co-founded Polyphonic HMI (now uplaya) and Tim’s company and mine were really the only two competitors in the market for the sale/license of music [...]
Re-posted from The Huffington Post on June 25, 2010
Look back on the past few years of your life and take stock of how much music radio listening you do. Is it as much as it used to be? Chances are you’ve phased music radio out of your life and you haven’t missed it too much. [...]
I’ve been thinking about a clever way to describe our new Song to Opportunity (S₂O) Matching system and that’s the best I’ve come up with so far. It turns your song into an opportunity magnet.
Today we’re rolling out (in beta) what I consider to be our first tech-sexy feature – Automatic Song to Opportunity Matching; or as we lovingly call it – S₂O Matching.
Here’s how it works:
From The Music Industry Report (http://musicindustryreport.org): Why the CD is dead and what music companies need to do about it. A great short “YouTube” video that every potential Independent Label/Production Company/Artist Development Company/Management Company should watch. Jim Park Young is a Korean music executive and provides wisdom keys concerning why he feels his company has been so successful in marketing pop artist overseas. During the interview, Mr. Young also states that the Album format is dead and that the key to success for the foreseeing future will be on creating great singles and selling them online. He also states that if your focus is only toward selling music from your project, you are leaving too much money on the table.
This week I feature My Silent Bravery, ZimBob Music & Mike Trapp. Discussion about the new music business. How to make it as an artist.
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I got involved in a discussion recently on LinkedIn with others who work in the music business and we were discussing some of the ways business people have taken advantage of acts and someone had a really interesting story from the UK. I’ll leave the people unnamed for the moment but here’s the story in his words:
