Music Business Weekly Wrap-Up

In case you’ve been too busy out in the field working on your music career, here are some highlights from this week in music news and artist advice:

Artists House Music:

• We’ve launched a Facebook fan page! Details: www.bit.ly/2Umbn8 (be sure to follow the badge at the end of the post to become a fan)
• Reflections on the 2009 Future of Music Policy Summit http://ow.ly/ucS0 from George Howard

Music Business News:

• Indie And D.I.Y. Music Coming Soon To Rock Band http://ow.ly/uQwZ
• Senate Judiciary Committee Approves RIAA Bailout Radio Tax http://ff.im/-9X46s
• MOG Readies Premium Music Streaming: The rush to beat Spotify to the US market continues with .. http://bit.ly/cpZKo
• Peer-to-Peer Passé, Report Finds http://ow.ly/ucT9
• EMI Drops Suit Against Grooveshark Music Service, Licenses It Instead http://ow.ly/ucSO

Artist Advice, Thought, Opinion:

• How Derek Sivers (CDBaby) knew he was done with his company: http://is.gd/4pBFt
• The Lyric Holy Trinity: Writing a Breakthrough Lyric by Wayne Cohen http://ow.ly/uQxR
• What do you guys think of this? The Lottery Model, The Free Culture Model, The Click Control Model http://ow.ly/uQxG
• The ‘Unofficial’ Hypebot Reading List http://ow.ly/uQxd
• When you have data you have power http://ow.ly/ucwA
• Nine Lessons From Next Big Nashville http://ow.ly/ucmm
• Topspin: A Data-Driven Artist and Fan Perspective http://ow.ly/tPEP

Hope you all had a fantastic weekend - I hope to see a lot of you again at this Tuesday’s online chat - more details to follow!