Music Reports Alcança 1 Milhão De Músicas Dentro Do seu Banco De Dados

Music Reports Hits 1 Million Songs Claimed Using Songdex Rights Database

Music Reports' rights database Songdex has hit a new milestone, helping music publishers claim more than 1 million songs since its claiming system was launched last year. 

The free Songdex Claiming System allows publishers to claim recordings that embody their songs, offering a valuable tool to clear up publishing information for the millions of tracks -- most of which come from independent artists -- that are digitally distributed online through such platforms as TuneCore and CD Baby. 

Songdex tracks more than song ownership, but also has the whole chain of rights from the composer to publishers to sub-publishers. It also includes related business information, such as contact information and the owner or administrator's preferred method of payment. 

"We knew when launching the Songdex Claiming System that publishers would gradually realize how valuable a tool it is, and with more than 1 million tracks claimed, it's safe to say people are catching on," said Bill Colitre, vice president and general counsel of Music Reports, Inc. in a statement. "And while we're excited that so many publishers have now experienced the unprecedented transparency and access the system provides, we're even more excited to see that publisher engagement with the system has been accelerating over the past three quarters."

Music Reports says it processes upwards of 250,000 new sound recording metadata rows each day. Much of that is duplicative, but the technology platform says the total number of new recordings is growing and nearing 1 million per month. Many of those songs are recordings of songs that have never been registered anywhere by their owners, are cover recordings or tracks with metadata anomalies that cause errors in their matching with the correct corresponding song data. 

Indústria Da Música E Tech Industries Dizem Que 'Net Neutrality ' É Negativo Para Inovação

Music & Tech Industries Say FCC's Net Neutrality Vote Will 'Negatively Affect Innovation'

"This is a fundamentally anti-democratic action that will have unintended consequences for the American economy for decades to come." 

Time will tell the implications the Federal Communication Commission's vote on Thursday (Dec. 14) to repeal Obama-era net neutrality regulation will have, but critics have been quick to cry foul at the Republican-led decision. 

The decision could profoundly effect the way the internet is run by rolling back restrictions that keep broadband providers across the country from blocking websites or collecting tolls for faster access. And those music and tech companies and organizations who agreed to comment to Billboard on the ruling all all spoke out against it and what it might mean for the future of the industry. 

"Net neutrality is crucial to keeping the web a vibrant and powerful place that fosters innovation," said SoundCloud CEO Kerry Trainor. "Eliminating these protections not only reduces consumer choice and accessibility of services, but inhibits the open, creative expression that has flourished on countless internet communities, including SoundCloud."

While FCC Chairman Ajit Pai and broadband providers such as Comcast, Verizon and AT&T have said the negative response to the regulatory dismantling has blown the issue out of proportion and promised they will not change user's internet experience, those companies still lobbied hard to overturn the rules. 

"Today's vote represents a departure from more than a decade of broad, bipartisan consensus on the rules governing the internet. Relying on ISPs to live up to their own 'promises' is not net neutrality and is bad for consumers," said Internet Association president and CEO Michael Beckerman in a statement. "Let's remember why we have these rules in the first place. There is little competition in the broadband service market -- more than half of all Americans have no choice in their provider -- so consumers will be forced to accept ISP interference in their online experience. This is in stark contrast to the websites and apps that make up Internet Association, where competition is a click away and switching costs are low."

Beckerman added that the The Internet Association -- which represents internet companies including Spotify, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Pandora and others -- is currently weighing its legal options in a lawsuit against today's order and hopes Congress will bring "strong, enforceable net neutrality protections into law."

Added a Google spokesperson: "We remain committed to the net neutrality policies that enjoy overwhelming public support, have been approved by the courts, and are working well for every part of the internet economy. We will work with other net neutrality supporters large and small to promote strong, enforceable protections."

Under the new rules, internet service providers will be free to discriminate against websites and apps, while favoring others, so long as they post their policies online or tell the FCC. This, according to American Association of Independent Music CEO Richard James Burgess, will benefit the larger corporations who can afford to buy into the new system and negatively effect those smaller ones who cannot. 

"This decision will disadvantage all the small and medium-sized enterprises, including the ones that make up our membership, and will negatively affect innovation," said Burgess in a statement. "This is a fundamentally anti-democratic action that will have unintended consequences for the American economy for decades to come."

Kevin Erickson, national organizing director for Future of Music Coalition, said his organization will also be supporting legal efforts to overturn the FCC's move and petitioning Congress to intervene. 

"The FCC has ignored the voices of countless musicians -- from arena rockers to classical concert hall stars, hip-hop trailblazers to DIY singer-songwriters -- and dozens of independent record labels large and small, all united in opposition to this move," he said. "This move will hurt musicians' ability to reach their audiences on their own terms, express themselves and their communities' concerns freely, and build sustainable careers—while enriching huge ISPs, allowing them to get in between artists and their fans."

"The idea that all information online aka data should be treated equally is one of the core principles in an open internet," said Discogs CEO Chad Dahlstrom. "Threats to that principle are threats to open dialogue, freedom of speech and the ability to choose what and how you get information online. We should not allow content to be throttled, blocked or removed based on a telecom or influential individuals decisions. That is an open door to censorship and big corporations once again choosing what we can see, hear and learn about. The internet must remain open."

‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Detalhes Da Trilha Sonora

‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Soundtrack Details

The full details of the soundtrack album for Star Wars: The Last Jedi have been announced. The album features the film’s original music composed by John Williams (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jurassic Park, Jaws, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, E.T.). The soundtrack will be released digitally and physically on this Friday, December 15 by Walt Disney Records. Visit Amazon to pre-order the CD and click here to pre-order the digital version. Star Wars: The Last Jedi is written and directed by Rian Johnson and stars Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Adam Driver, Lupita Nyong’o, Domhnall Gleeson, Anthony Daniels, Gwendoline Christie and Andy Serkis. The eight episode in the Star Warsseries will be released in theaters nationwide on December 15 by Walt Disney Pictures. Visit the official movie website for updates.

Here’s the album track list (might contain spoilers!):

1. Main Title and Escape (7:25)
2. Ahch-To Island (4:22)
3. Revisiting Snoke (3:28)
4. The Supremacy (4:00)
5. Fun With Finn and Rose (2:33)
6. Old Friends (4:28)
7. The Rebellion Is Reborn (3:59)
8. Lesson One (2:09)
9. Canto Bight (2:37)
10. Who Are You? (3:04)
11. The Fathiers (2:42)
12. The Cave (2:59)
13. The Sacred Jedi Texts (3:32)
14. A New Alliance (3:13)
15. “Chrome Dome” (2:01)
16. The Battle of Crait (6:47)
17. The Spark (3:35)
18. The Last Jedi (3:03)
19. Peace and Purpose (3:06)
20. Finale (8:28

Escute Eric Clapton Somente A Guitarra E Voz Em “Layla”

Hear Eric Clapton’s guitar and voice track isolated on “Layla”

“Layla” is a song written by Eric Clapton and Jim Gordon, originally released by their blues rock band Derek and the Dominos, as the thirteenth track from their album Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs (November 1970). Its famously contrasting movements were composed separately by Clapton and Gordon.

The song was inspired by a love story that originated in 7th-century Arabia and later formed the basis of The Story of Layla and Majnun by the 12th-century Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi, a copy of which Ian Dallas had given to Clapton.

The book moved Clapton profoundly, because it was the tale of a young man who fell hopelessly in love with a beautiful, young girl and went crazy and so could not marry her. In his autobiography, Clapton states, “Ian Dallas told me the tale of Layla and Majnun [sic], a romantic Persian love story in which a young man, Majnun, falls passionately in love with the beautiful Layla, but is forbidden by her father to marry her and goes crazy with desire.”

The song was further inspired by Clapton’s then unrequited love for Pattie Boyd, the wife of his friend and fellow musician George Harrison of the Beatles. Clapton and Boyd would eventually marry.

Now, you have the chance to hear his amazing guitar and voice isolated tracks. You need to check this out.

Hear it below:

“Layla” was unsuccessful on its initial release. The song has since experienced great critical and popular acclaim, and is often hailed as being among the greatest rock songs of all time. Two versions have achieved chart success, the first in 1972 and the second (without the piano coda) 20 years later as an acoustic Unplugged performance by Clapton.

In 2004,  the song was ranked number 27 on Rolling Stone’s list of “The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time”, and the acoustic version won the 1993 Grammy Award for Best Rock Song.

In 1966, George Harrison married Pattie Boyd, a model he met during the filming of A Hard Day’s Night. During the late 1960s, Clapton and Harrison became close friends.

Clapton contributed uncredited guitar work on Harrison’s song “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” on the Beatles’ White Album, and Harrison co-wrote and played guitar pseudonymously (as L’Angelo Misterioso) on Cream’s “Badge” from Goodbye. However, between his tenures in Cream and Blind Faith, Clapton fell in love with Boyd.

The title, “Layla”, was inspired by the story of Layla and Majnun, which Clapton had been told by his friend Ian Dallas,[6] who was in the process of converting to Islam. Nizami’s tale, about a moon princess who was married off by her father to a man she didn’t love, resulting in Majnun’s madness, struck a deep chord with Clapton.

O Som De 'Knightfall' Do History Channel - Podcast e Video

The Sound of History Channel's Knightfall

We talk with the sound team behind History Channel's new show Knightfall featuring supervising sound editor and sound designer Edmond Coblentz, re-recording mixer Adam Sawelson and Kurt Kassulke, Dialogue Editor Steve Stuhr and Stage Tech Mat Duncan.

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In 1306, the Knights Templar are winding down their run as one of the most powerful organizations in the Christian world. Acre, the Templars' last stronghold, has fallen and years later a rumor is heard that the lost Grail is still in that area. The Templars, led by the courageous, headstrong, but noble Templar Knight Landry have shifted their attention to regaining a foothold in the Holy Land. They take their battle back to the Holy Land and their battles become the Crusades. The Templars are now losing allies and gaining new and powerful enemies, including the King of France. The legendary, wealthy and secretive military order of warrior monks are entrusted with protecting the Holy Grail and any secrets that are capable of destroying the Church.

"Estou Bem Do Meu Jeito Pagando As Contas Da Casa Com As Receitas Que Ganho No Streaming"

“I’m well on my way to paying off my house with streaming revenue”

How one instrumental guitarist is earning significant money from his streams on Spotify and Pandora.

First of a thanks to Chris Robley for this article.

The music career of Lance Allen is a true DIY success story. He doesn’t tour. He doesn’t rely on merch sales to pay the mortgage. He isn’t a household name. And yet he’s earning a full-time living in music by balancing guitar lessons with streaming revenue. That money he’s generating from Pandora, Spotify, and YouTube is a pretty sizable portion of his overall earnings too. It’s enough to “buy a new guitar every month,” but instead he’s using it to pay off his house.

How’s streaming working so well for him? I asked.

An interview with Lance Allen, the Guitarlancer

CR: Your main focus is clear from the calls-to-action at the very top of your website homepage: drive action on Spotify and Pandora. Why those platforms? Why not… touring? iTunes? YouTube? CD sales?

LA: Spotify and Pandora Radio have the largest audience, and that’s the reason why they’re my main focus. Plus it has been a source of income for me.

In late 2015, I was lucky and one of my songs was chosen for the new playlist on Spotify called Acoustic Concentration. A Skype guitar student that I teach told me about this. I didn’t know what to expect really, considering most people in the industry complain about Spotify’s royalty rates. The first payment I received was somewhere in the tune of $700 and I was floored! I didn’t know how long it would last, but I held out hope. It kept going and eventually the playlist switched up songs and I remained on there. This stayed constant, but I wasn’t doing any research until earlier in 2017, when I accidentally stumbled on a short book called The Slotify Method by George Goodrich. This book and the CD Baby PDF on how to get added to playlists put a fire in my feet and I got started right away. I’ve done most of the things suggested in each of the pamphlets, and it has worked greatly.

As far as touring, I don’t need to do that. I have a successful guitar lesson business and a family at home. It’s quite nice to be at home with the family. I do the occasional gig at coffee houses, weddings, or corporate events. It’s at those type of things that I bring physical CDs. I have a box with a hole in the top and lay my CDs around the box and have a sign that says, “Pay the box, take a CD. Any amount is ok. Enjoy!” This seems to work great, because most people pay more for the CD than they would normally.

YouTube is strong for me. I started in 2006 posting videos of my arrangements on guitar. My camera got better, sound got better, and everything else fell into place. I do generate a little income from the AdSense. YouTube is very friendly with Google, so whenever I release a song I’ll make a live performance of me playing it and link to my Spotify and Pandora artist pages, as well as where you can buy tablature or sign up for lessons. Sometimes I’ll do multiple videos of the same song on various guitar brands to get more keyword juice going. Every little bit helps. You just have to keep the content going.

CR: What, if any, are the unique opportunities that Pandora and Spotify offer instrumental music?

LA: I have found that businesses all over the globe are using Spotify and Pandora to stream instrumental music in their shops and offices. Whether it’s a coffee shop, a boutique store, gift shops, or doctors offices, they use these platforms typically to play instrumental music. A lot of them use existing playlists, but some create their own. So there is a lot of opportunity for me in these areas. Still learning about them.

So, you currently have half a million monthly listeners on Spotify, but take us back to Day 1: How did you get those first 1000 listeners? The first 10,000 listeners? Can you walk me through the real foundational steps for driving interest in your music? And how much of your success was the result of engaging your existing audience vs. reaching out to playlist curators?

I can’t remember really what my earliest numbers were like as I didn’t pay much attention until I saw some income from being on Acoustic Concentration.

After reading up on how to get on playlists, here are some of the things I started doing:

• Posting screenshots of my artist page to Instagram and using pre-loaded hashtags for reach. I did this daily!
• Using Twitter to promote the playlist I was already on, as well as encouraging people to follow me on Spotify.
• Finding playlist owners and asking them to add me to one of their playlists.
• Becoming acquainted with Spotify editorial departments on LinkedIn.

Speaking of, how DID you reach out to playlisters? What’s the method in terms of research, pitching, promoting, and so forth?

I did a search on Spotify using keywords that pertained to my genre of music (Acoustic Guitar, fingerstyle guitar, instrumental guitar, study music and so on. There are a lot!) I set about an hour each morning while I enjoyed my single origin pour-over coffee to do this. I searched out the creators of the playlist on Facebook and Twitter. I matched up photos, and requested them to be a friend, along with sending them a message telling them about my music and how it would fit nicely into their playlist. It’s very tedious work and some playlist curators don’t even get onto social media. The key is to stay persistent with it and then the ones that matter end up connecting with you and help you out.

I know from when I met you in person at the DIY Musician Conference that you have a confident way of promoting your music, without it seeming… cloying or arrogant. Is that just your natural demeanor, or did you have to work to acquire those skills of self-promotion? What part do you think that confidence plays in your career successes?

Confidence is one of my major strengths! If you have a dream or are very passionate about making a living doing something you love, you have to be willing to do what it takes to succeed. I’ve learned this through growing my guitar lesson business and meeting people. You never know who is going to be the next person to help you out. They may recommend you, buy a CD, or support your fundraisers. Or… put you on their playlist!

I’ve read a lot of books on self selling, and making friends and influencing people. One that especially got me going was The 10X Rule by Grant Cardone. After listening to that book on audio, I found myself putting in ten times the effort! There are a lot of great books out there on making yourself sellable and influential.

What have been some of the letdowns or failures you’ve experienced along the way, and how did you pick yourself back up?

The letdown is not being able to reach someone with a user generated playlist I know will help me. I’m focused on getting onto the playlist that users create because that in turn gets my name on the Spotify curators’ radar.

Something that I do to help with keeping persistent is having a goal sheet written in bold sharpie just above my computer. I try my best to keep at it, regardless of a failing outcome. I have seen results from my efforts, so I just keep with it. I find that I learn new things and techniques along the way. This hasn’t happened yet, but getting pulled from a playlist would be a disappointment. Especially a Spotify playlist, as their independent curators are ghosts and difficult to have direct contact with. However I would keep pushing, because it is my goal to succeed with my music.

Taking a look at your discography, you put out albums every few years, with two related albums in 2017, but you also started dropping a bunch of singles over the past year. What effect did putting out music more frequently have on your music’s streaming performance?

Releasing singles has been the best thing for me. It keeps listeners engaged with my artist profile. I started releasing covers too, because CD Baby makes it so easy to do. That has been a game changer! People love hearing cover songs. And because mine are all instrumental, they get put on big playlists, like Instrumental Pop Covers.

The two related albums are String Poet and String Poet Guitar Solos. One of the releases has the violins and cellos in the mix and the other is just solo guitar. I did this because of a playlister who only wanted solo guitar. It got me on the playlist, so it was worth releasing them that way.

In August 2017 one of my songs got placed on the Peaceful Guitar playlist, which is a Spotify playlist with half a million followers at the time. I’m quite confident that this happened as a result of being prolific on the platform. The pay from Spotify streams is big for me. I could easily buy a new guitar each month if I wanted, but it’s paying my house off!

In October I decided to record a song just for the Peaceful Guitar playlist. I didn’t know how it would go, but I did it anyway. I listened to the playlist and created a song that would fit. I took into consideration that most of the songs on there were nylon string and quite peaceful, so I got some new strings and went to work. I even gave it a title in the same manner as the other tracks in the playlist, “Raining Slowly.” It wasn’t a lot of work really. I sat in my living room with my laptop, GarageBand, a single AKG microphone, and a Focusrite preamp and recorded one take of an idea that I had. I took an iPhone photo of my guitar and used Font Candy to make a title on the photo. This ended up being my cover for the release. I got the song uploaded on Spotify and on day one it was placed on the Peaceful Guitar playlist!

Took me about 1.5 hours to do this tune and now it’s a part of my income. Holy Cow that was awesome. I’m doing what I can now to replicate that.

What’s the basic checklist of things you do to promote each single?

Make sure you are ready to post in every social media outlet, tagging people, messaging your friends who have created playlists (you know, the ones you met from doing the research).

Make a YouTube performance video, linking everything together. You can also make a video with the audio layed underneath your cover photo of the release. That seems to help as well. Don’t forget to put links in every video.

Besides frequent releases and pitching to playlists, what else are you doing to drive Spotify engagement?

Creating and promoting my own playlists. I’ve created a playlist that is growing quickly called Acoustic Guitar Cafe.

It’s a lot of my friends who play guitar similar to me. I just recently asked every artist on there if they would be interested in chipping in $20 for a Spotify ad to promote the playlist. I was able to get a decent budget on a Spotify ad to promote the playlist. This will hopefully help find new followers and listeners of our music. It’s also started a discussion with some of the artists where we’re sharing stats and techniques of what is working to get our music heard.

What are you doing to drive Pandora streams? Are you using AMP?

I use AMP every day or every other day. I try to post artist messages that are personal, sometimes funny. The key is to connect with people that are listening. Being that it’s instrumental, I can provide a short blurb about why I wrote the tune. Things like that generate thumbs up, which in turn brings your music up more often.

What role does data play in shaping your strategies? Do you make a habit of looking at analytics?

I look at the analytic all the time. In fact I can’t wait until 11 CST to see the artist.spotify update. That tells me if I’ve gotten on any new playlist. I also used the data when creating the Spotify ad to promote my playlist. I’m eying the AMP data as well, to see if my artist messages are working and possibly making conversions or new listeners and fans.

So what are some of your big picture goals?

I’d love to earn a complete living with streaming revenue, and in fact I’d love to say that I paid my house off with streaming bucks. I’m well on the way.

Also, I’d like to see my music in the movies or TV eventually. I know in the music business it’s all about who you know. I’m already in a library, so just hoping a music supervisor picks it up and hears it.

I didn’t quite make it, but I tried to get nominated for a Grammy this year. Although I don’t need a Grammy to succeed with this, it would be neat to get a nomination. So I will continue to submit every year I do album.

Who are your musical idols — and have your songs appeared alongside some of theirs in curated playlists?

Yes! One is Phil Keaggy, and it was a dream to have him on one of my songs, “Blue Ireland.” Tommy Emmanuel is another big influence, and I hope to one day record something with him.

What’s the next year look like for you?

Next year Pandora will have increased, as well as Spotify numbers. I will be releasing more Christmas music for the holidays as well as an album of cover songs. I may even do an original album of peaceful guitar music or possibly a Volume 2 to my String Poet album that everyone has loved. I may even look into doing an electric guitar album or something in the smooth jazz style of music. That elevator music pays too!

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Amazon Lança Streaming De Música "Ilimitada" Em 28 Países

Amazon Launches 'Unlimited' Music Streaming Service, Echo in 28 More Countries

Heads up, Liechtenstein, you and 27 other countries are part of Amazon's latest expansion of both its Echo smart speaker and its on-demand music streaming service Amazon Music Unlimited. Beginning today, music fans across Europe, Central and South America and two islands in the Mediterranean can subscribe for access to AMU's catalog of 40 million ad-free songs and playlists. Amazon will also start shipping its popular Echo line of speakers to the new countries.

AMU launched in the U.S. in 2016, followed by the U.K., Germany, Japan and more. The 28 new territories are: Belgium, Bolivia, Bulgaria, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Panama, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Sweden and Uruguay.

"Music is such an incredible global connector, and with Amazon Music Unlimited we’ve been able to give listeners access to an extensive catalog with the added experience of using their own voice to hear music in so many ways with Alexa," stated Steve Boom, VP of Amazon Music. "Today's announcement signifies an important moment for Amazon Music Unlimited and our international customers as we continue to offer more music fans all over the world a completely new way to hear expertly-curated playlists and songs from their favorite artists."