Posts Tagged beatport
Beatport Play – Free Remix Parts and Competitions
Posted by Lost In Musik in Music Industry on January 25, 2012
This year Let’s Mix (a DJ competition and mix hosting site) has shut up business due to issues with their business model. It seems that the logistics of enforcing restrictions on the mixes uploaded has… Continue reading
Dance Music In The Digital Age Part 2 – How to make money?
Posted by Lost In Musik in Music Industry, Uncategorized on October 26, 2011
In the first post we assessed the costs of releasing dance music along with investigating how the current social climate is impacting music sales and the ability of musical artists to earn a living. The… Continue reading
Spotify partners with Virgin Media – Is this the Future?
Posted by Lost in Musik in Music Industry on July 8, 2011
Spotify is at the centre some pretty exciting news in the development of music delivery this week – It’s partnering with Virgin Media. The heavily supported rumors are suggesting that the partnership will see Virgin off subscription to Spotify as a bolt-on to it’s home media packaged. Finally offering a Read on…
Beatport charts gone crazy? Rumours of a new genre? Read on…
Posted by lostinmusik in Music Industry, Music Marketing and Sales on April 7, 2011
So Toolroom have worked out a killer strategy for dominating the Beatport charts – bundle 20-40 tracks into a compilation and sell them for a reduced price.
(side note: supposedly this isn’t the first time they’ve employed ‘creative’ tactics to chart their tracks, crafty lot they are!)
If you look at their recent Miami sampler they were… Continue reading
Anatomy of a Beatport Release – The Real Deal
Posted by lostinmusik in Music Industry, Music Marketing and Sales on March 31, 2011
Last year the guys at Beatport did a piece called “Becoming One – Anatomy of a #1 hit”. This showed how the Swedish House Mafia marketed their release “One” and the ensuing sales and fame the release achieved. It… Continue reading
Dominating Music Downloads and Tensnake Disco
Posted by lostinmusik in Music Industry on January 17, 2011
It’s a strange scene when you look at the pie chart for track sales and one of the thirty slices takes up 97% of the pie. It begs a few questions:
1. Is it really worth giving distributors a cut of the label’s revenue to distribute… Continue reading
FREE HOUSE MUSIC?
Posted by lostinmusik in Featured Music on September 17, 2010
FREE DOWNLOAD of SNUS EVERYMAN vocal mix to celebrate release of ep Continue reading
Beatport Mobile
Posted by lostinmusik in Uncategorized on March 24, 2010
Beatport get moblie with this cool little site for the 3G generation. As though I dont spend enough money on Beatport already!
http://www.beatportal.com/feed/item/introducing-beatport-mobile/
Laurent Garnier remix competition
Posted by lostinmusik in Uncategorized on January 20, 2010
Here’s a new remix competition for you to get your teeth into and your music heard. Seen as so many demos sent to record labels and handed to DJs go unlistened to, these competitions are a great way to edge yourself into the music industry. Get the… Continue reading
Making money out of music – Part 1
Posted by lostinmusik in Music Production Tutorial on December 11, 2009
investigation into how to make money out of music Continue reading
House music downloads -Forbidden Fruit Vol. 1
Posted by lostinmusik in Uncategorized on December 7, 2009
forbidden fruit vol 1 – latest mix release from forbidden fruit recordings, featuring tracks by tom lennox, darius syrossian & nyra, hacksaw, deepchild, dark room robot, click & zoom, Continue reading
