Common Mistakes Bands Make During CD Manufacturing
Some of the bands that get our service, especially the new ones, commit these mistakes during CD manufacturing. They are not really fatal mistakes but they can cause delays and can affect your music career in one way or the other. It Coming in with very tight timelines Some bands come to our office with […]
Indie Musicians: Tips in Making a Band Bio
A feeling that’s even worse than being hated is the feeling of being unacknowledged or ignored. Mediocrity is the enemy of artists. But the music industry is like the ocean; vast and filled with others who also dream of making it big. Survival of the fittest is the game. Talent is not the only requirement […]
Indie Musician Tips: Advantages of Self-Publishing Your Album
Music Retail News: UMG's New Pricing Structure Designed to Get Single CDs in Stores at $10 or Below
To compensate the lower pricing, UMG also plans to step up deluxe versions of albums which sell at a higher price to cater the hardcore fans and collectors. UMG is also banking that the lower price points will at the least be offset by increasing CD sales volume. Most new releases, beginning in the second […]
Mini-Albums: One Way to Improve the Music Retail Business
USA Today is taking note of the uptick in country mini-albums (or EPs, or collections that generally have fewer than ten songs). Luke Bryan, the newspaper points out, released his second “Spring Break” digital EP today. And “country’s Josh Thompson and American Idol’s Jason Castro have released digital EPs in anticipation of full albums.” This […]
Top 40 best-selling vinyl albums of 2023 so far
You might have thought “Nah, vinyl’s just a fad”. We thought the same way, too. But now we’ve got a list of best selling vinyl albums. We’re very much surprised that vinyl is still alive and kicking up to this day. In fact, this year, vinyl sales rose 13.2% in the first nine months. As […]
How to review your vinyl test pressing the right way
Working together is a must to press a great vinyl record. And that requires you, our dear client, to review your test pressing vinyl records—the right way! In this article, we’ll be discussing this critical steps of the vinyl manufacturing process. Why critical? Well, whatever you do in this step, will decide the quality of […]
Vinyl boom
Last March 15, Technavio released their newest market research report which is related to vinyl records. The market research report is titled Vinyl Records by Product and Geography – Forecast and Analysis 2021-2025. The report shows the numbers post-COVID 19 which makes this very valuable. Inside the report are insights and information on how the […]
The Best 90’s Musician Box Sets
Blur, Pink, Spice Girls…if you’re like me whose taste in music is still stuck in the 90s, then you’ll love these 90’s musician box set. Here are some of the best box sets from the 90’s that you can still buy from online stores. We’re drooling. We want them all! #1. THE COMPLETE STUDIO ALBUM – […]
Top 15 Music Predictions for 2022
The pandemic has made it difficult to make any predictions but luckily, there are music industry pros with good experience, good sense, and powerful crystal balls. They’ve been studying trends in music and they know how things work on the ground (and online!), so their predictions are the most legit. Let’s see how they imagine […]