While accounts of the “death of the music industry” have been ... influence needed to both produce and push a record. In a typical record label contract, the record label pays all of the ...

WHAT: Rhymesayers Entertainment www.rhymesayers.com What would this list be ... to this music business thing after all. WHAT: Eclectone Records www.eclectone.com Singer/songwriter Martin DevaneyâÄôs D ...

While social media certainly disrupted the music business, it didn’t uproot the traditional record label model. There have been numerous other game-changers over the years that failed — on ...

By night, he’s a music industry crusader – digging up obscure gems and persuading record labels to make them available online. Over the last six years, he’s been responsible for 725 releases ...

BI compiled a list of 13 agencies and upstarts doing innovative work in the space and some of their key leaders. We turned to sources at record labels and other music-industry professionals ...

But there's one crucial difference: While Rodrigo is signed to the world's biggest record label, Universal Music, Smith has no record deal at all. Instead, her music is distributed by a US service ...