NBC Determina Uma Nova Competição Musical "The Stream"

NBC Orders New Musical Competition 'The Stream'

Not content with having TV's last standing musical competition in The Voice, NBC is adding another -- albeit a slightly unconventional one. The network has ordered The Stream, a social media-driven contest which will rely heavily on technology.

Based on a Norwegian format, it skirts traditional auditions in favor of hopefuls submitting their own performance videos to a dedicated platform. The 100 most-streamed musicians, which are not bound to any genre, will be invited to an industry showcase until they're narrowed down to just a handful who will compete on a live weekly program. The ensuing streams will dictate who gets eliminated and who wins.

“The Stream brilliantly uses technology and social media to draw music lovers in and make them a part of the process,” said Paul Telegdy, NBC Entertainment's alternative and reality group president. “We’re excited to discover talent in this modern way and connect the best artists with the industry’s top starmakers.”

It's the fifth announcement that the network's new reality house, NBC Universal Television Alternative Studio, has made since its inception in June.

The Stream's methodology is not without precedent. Justin Bieber is among the many musical artists to be discovered by uploaded clips on YouTube and other platforms. It also isn't the first musical competition to try and lean on social media for voting. ABC's short-lived Rising Star had a tie-in app that allowed fans to vote for performances in real-time.

Universal Television Alternative Studio in association with Monster, TV2, Nordic World and Little Hill. The deal was packaged by Steve Wohl at Paradigm.

Drake E Adele Lideram As Vendas De 2016 No Reino Unido

Drake, Adele Lead 2016's Music Biggest Sellers in U.K.

PHILADELPHIA, PA – SEPTEMBER 09: Adele performs at Wells Fargo Center on September 9, 2016 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

• Drake and Adele are set to have the top-selling single and album in the U.K. in 2016 – a feat likely to be repeated in other countries.

PHILADELPHIA, PA – SEPTEMBER 09: Adele performs at Wells Fargo Center on September 9, 2016 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Theo Wargo/Getty Images)

Drake and Adele are set to have the top-selling single and album in the U.K. in 2016 – a feat likely to be repeated in other countries.The Canadian rapper and British singer lead the pack, according to the Official Charts Company, with three-quarters of 2016 gone already.

The rundown, based on combined digital downloads, physical purchases and streaming equivalent sales, leaves both artists in a strong position to be crowned king and queen, even with the busy final few months of the year to come. In 2015 things changed radically in the same period, with Adele’s 25 shooting to the top, though no similarly huge releases are forecast by analysts this time: the Adele blockbuster was seen coming months in advance, even if its scale was underestimated.

Adele is the No. 9 on FORBES Highest-Paid Celebrities 2016 List with a net worth of $80.5 million. Drake is at No. 69, with a earnings of $38.5 million.

While the 2016 UK Official Chart placings are hardly a surprise, the figures are revealing, especially at a time of headlines about reduced physical sales.

Drake’s “One Dance,” featuring Wizkid and Kyla, is well known for staying at No. 1 for 15 weeks in the U.K., equaling Wet Wet Wet’s stint with “Love Is All Around” in 1994. Now we can put numbers on its success: the song has had combined chart sales of 1.695 million in Britain this year, which includes 504,600 downloads and 119 million streams, the most streamed song of the year.

Porque 2016 Vai ser O Melhor Ano Da Indústria Da Música Desde 2009

Here's Why 2016 Is Set to Be Music Industry's Best Year Since 2009

Streaming continues to power a boost in album units and revenue.

For those willing to equate “total album consumption units” with good old-fashioned sales, at 411 million units in the first three quarters of 2016, the U.S. music industry appears set to enjoy its most robust year since 2009. By that metric, which combines sales with track- and streaming-equivalent units (with 10 track sales or 1,500 streams equaling one album, respectively), the industry is almost at 2013’s total of 415.4 million albums and is on track to pass 2009’s 489.8 million albums (both include TEA). 

The third quarter’s total is 5.3 percent higher than the 390.1 million units counted at the same time in 2015 -- and the RIAA’s midyear report found that on a dollar basis, the industry was up 8.1 percent over 2015 to $3.43 billion. Dividing the album-plus-TEA pie by distribution ownership, Universal Music Group remains on top but drops four percentage points to 34.7 percent from the same period in 2015, while Sony Music jumps to 28.4 percent from 27.2, and Warner rises to 21.7 percent from 19.3.

The top albums so far this year are Drake’s Views, with 3.57 million in total consumption (which includes sales, stream equivalent albums and track equivalent albums) this year, followed by Adele's 25 with 2.1 million and Beyonce’s Lemonade in third, with 2.01 million in total consumption. 

In digital song sales, Justin Timberlake’s “Can’t Stop the Feeling!” stands at No. 1, with 2.16 million downloads, edging out Flo Rida’s “My House" and its 2.14 million downloads.

Desiigner’s “Panda” was the most on-demand streamed song so far this year with 674.4 million streams, overtaking the half-year leader, Rihanna’s “Work,” featuring Drake, which now has 641.2 million streams. 

135.000 Ingressos Do Glastonbury (Esgotado) Foram Vendidos Em 50 Minutos

135,000 Glastonbury tickets sold out in just 50 minutes

Revellers dance as George Ezra performs on the Pyramid stage at Worthy Farm in Somerset during the Glastonbury Festival in Britain, June 27, 2015. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez

In news that will surprise no-one, Glastonbury 2017 has now sold out.

Registered fans of the three-day festival prepared to battle it out this morning at 9am to secure some of the 135,000 tickets available to get caked in mud next summer.

And by 9.50am, all of the tickets were gone, after the unsurprisingly huge demand caused some issues, which meant the tickets sold in a slower time than recent years. Last year's batch sold out in 30 minutes and the previous year's went in 27 minutes.

Emily Eavis, co-organiser of the festival and youngest daughter of Glasto founder Michael Eavis, also tweeted to say the tickets had all been snapped up.

Emily Eavis 

✔@emilyeavis

Tickets have now sold out. Thank you for your huge support and loyalty and we are sorry to those who missed out.

5:59 AM - 9 Oct 2016

On Thursday night (October 6), coach and ticket packages for 2017 sold out in only 23 minutes, leaving people just a bit miffed at missing out.

And if you also missed out on this morning's ticket scramble, it's not over yet. Next Spring, there will be the usual resale of unwanted tickets.

Daft Punk, Radiohead, The Stone Roses and Lady Gaga are among the rumoured headliners for next year's festival.

Glastonbury 2017 runs from June 21-25 and will be the last edition before the festival takes its traditional break in 2018. Whether it'll be coming back to Worthy Farm remains to be seen though.

One potential issue with a Glastonbury festival in 2019 is that a planned move from the legendary Worthy Farm to a new site has fallen through.

Michael Eavis was eyeing up Longleat Safari Park as a potential new permanent home for the festival, due to a pesky gas pipe causing issues at the current site, but the owner of the Longleat estate, Lord Bath, has been overruled by his son.

Os Selos De Música Do Reino Unido Recebem US3.5 Milhões Do Governo Para Incrementar As Vendas Globais

U.K. Labels Receive $3.5M Government Funding to Boost Global Sales

British labels and musicians are set to benefit from £2.8 million ($3.5 million) in government funding to help them break into international markets.

Delivered by the Department for International Trade in partnership with labels trade body BPI, grants of between £5,000 ($6,000) and £50,000 ($62,000) will be available to independent labels, distributors and management companies to help promote British artists around the world.

Funding will be made available until 2020 with the first round of nominations opening on Oct. 10 via BPI’s website. The deadline for applications is Nov. 7 with successful applicants due to be announced in December.

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From 2014 to 2016, the Music Export Growth Scheme (MEGS) awarded £1.6 million ($2 million) in grants to over 100 homegrown artists, including Brit Award winners Catfish and the Bottlemen, Public Service Broadcasting, London Grime MCs Ghetts and Afrikan Boy and 2014 Mercury Prize winners Young Fathers.

They helped contribute to the U.K.’s success as the world’s second largest music exporter behind the U.S., with British artists accounting for almost one in almost every six artist albums sold worldwide in 2015, representing a record 17.1 percent share of the global market.

Five of 2015’s top-selling artist albums also came from U.K. acts, thanks to successful records by Coldplay, One Direction, Sam Smith, Ed Sheeran and, of course, Adele’s 25. Last year additionally saw British artists claim their highest-ever share of the U.S. artist albums market, when homegrown acts gained a record 17.6 percent share -- up from 12.2 percent in 2014, according to BPI figures.

Dica De Livros MÚSICA - 8 Livros De Alguns Artistas

8 Rockin' Reads That Celebrate Music

First of all thanks to my friend Brad Tolinski for this tip.

Music lovers, read it and weep—here are eight of the best rockin’ reads by and about the musicians we all know and love.

This is Our Song (Simon & Schuster)

Taylor Swift has been doing her sparkly, bigger-than-life, hit song-writing thing for 10 years and this book, put together by author Tyler Conroy and Swift’s fans (aka Swifties), documents and celebrates everything about the 26-year-old songstress.

Play It Loud: An Epic History of the Style, Sound, and Revolution of the Electric Guitar (Doubleday)

Music journalists Brad Tolinski and Alan di Perna are so passionate about the electric guitar they wrote the book on it, delving deep into the instrument’s history, greatest hits and artists.

Paul DuNoyer’s Conversations With McCartney (Hodder & Stoughton) spans 35 years of interviews and conversations with the former Beatle, offering personal and extremely intimate insights into the legendary musician.

Born to Run (Simon & Schuster) 

For decades, fans have been talking about Bruce Springsteen. Now, in his new autobiography, (released along with the companion album, Chapter & Verse), Bruce tells his own story, revealing things we never knew about the song Born to Run as well as everything from his ultimate magic trick to why he says he’s a bit of a fraud.

I Am Brian Wilson (Da Capo Press) 

You know the hits—“Wouldn’t It Be Nice,” “God Only Knows,” “I Get Around,”—now read the story as told by the Beach Boy himself.

John Lennon vs. The USA: The Inside Story of the Most Bitterly Contested and Influential Deportation Case in United States History (Ankerwyke Publishing) by Leon Wildes

This is the story of the attempted deportation of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, circa 1972, which is doubly interesting in light of immigration being one of the hottest topics in today’s presidential race.

Morrissey & Marr: The Severed Alliance (The Overlook Press) by Johnny Rogan

This 25th anniversary edition revisits the friendship, musical partnership and tumultuous breakup of The Smiths’ Morrissey and Johnny Marr, adding subtext to the band’s greatest hits.

New York Rock: From the Rise of The Velvet Underground to the Fall of CBGB (St. Martin’s Griffin) 

Author Steven Blush’s go-to book about the sub-cultures of rock n’ roll is packed with anecdotes from 1,500 musicians, journalists, artists and club owners 

 

É Uma Dica Simples - Como Fazer Uma Música Cover Ser Ótima

It's Just Small Tip:  How to Do a Great Cover Songs

First of all than to Robin Yukio

Work with what you’ve got. Play to your strengths (literally). If you have a great range, showcase it with big sweeping melodies (Queen, Mariah Carey, and other non-cheesy artists as well!). If your tone is average but you have a great sense of groove, cover more rhythmic songs that highlight that. Choose a song that could have been written for you.

Find your key. Just because the original singer can hit that low G doesn’t mean that’s what is best for you. Find your best range and make sure you are hitting your sweet spots. There are plenty of apps that can transpose your favorite song to your perfect key if you don’t want to do it yourself (or, there are people like me that can help you).

Do it your way. Unless you are playing a wedding and it’s the couple’s special song, don’t feel married to the original version. Try different embellishments. Find your voice and treat the tune like you wrote it.

Experiment with arrangement. Try changing the time signature/feel. (Here is my rendition of Outkast’s “Hey Ya” as a waltz, for example.) Make a rock song into a ballad, or vice versa. Put jazz chords to a simple pop song. Turn a heavily produced number into a minimalist piece (this is also a good way to go if you are still struggling with self-accompaniment).

Get permission. If you’re playing an open mic, this isn’t such a big issue. But if you plan on recording a cover and sending it out into the world, check out the info on licensing at the Harry Fox Agency.