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Swedish Successes: Kobalt Music Group

Swedish Successes: Kobalt Music Group “Trust is good, but control is better,” according to Swedish entrepreneur William Ahdritz, founder and chairman of Kobalt Music Group....

Syncs – how do they work?

Remember playing video games with your friends and discovering amazing new music? A defining musical moment for me was Tony Hawk Pro Skater 4. I'll...

Homegrown: A look at the Zac Brown Collective

The music industry has changed significantly over the past 50 years; Back in the 1970’s, record labels were the gatekeepers to big audiences and...

Anna Wysocka Interview , Part 1

A couple of weeks ago we had the chance to sit down with Anna Wysocka, A&R Director at FONOBO, one of the leading indie...

Contracts: Publishers

Introduction So you have a cute little publishing company nipping at your heels, or your client's heels for that sake. They promise you their sync...

Born This Way: the birth of a #1 album

Lady Gaga was at a crossroads in 2010; Her first two releases, The Fame and The Fame Monster had been big successes and in...

Book club: music industry books to read, Pt. 1

Knowledge is power, or so they say. And what better place to gain knowledge from than from books? Archaic, old, dusty books, but often...

“B*tch better have my money’: where are Rihanna’s missing revenues?

Badgirlriri, as Rihanna is known on Instagram, currently counts over 94 million Instagram followers, has had 14  #1 hits (Billboard, n.d.), and is worth...

Who’s who: Dutch Publishers

And on today's episode of who's wo we'll be looking at Dutch publishers. Don't know what a publisher does? Read up on it here....

Dead to rights: what are copyrights and master rights?

A lot of artists own copyrights and master rights. Yet copyrights and master rights are the two terms I have heard being used interchangeably...

Route 91 Harvest Festival ‘17: A tragedy that could have been prevented?

Violence and festivals have been linked ever since a fateful evening in California when Meredith Hunter was stabbed at the Altamont Free Concert during...

Who’s who: Dutch Record Labels

Where would we be without our golden labels of course. The Netherlands has historically been home to a couple of huge labels (Polydor, Roadrunner,...

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