Music Industry notes

What is streaming and how does it benefit the music industry? Streaming is listening to music via the internet through apps such as Spotify, Apple music and soundcloud.  When streaming music you are not downloading it in file format therefore there is an endless stream of data. The concept of legally streaming music has overall saved the music industry of today.  For example… Due to Apple music and Spotify reached 100 million paying subscribers last year which was a huge milestone for the industry as it means that artists and songwriters and finally starting to get fairly paid revenue for the streams of their music.  Artists such as Drake brought in 4.7 Billion streams last year, and spotify collected royalties from each and every one of these streams which was then handed to Universal Music Group.  Just from Drake’s streaming income Universal Music gained £1.1 Billion, so streaming is now seriously counteracting the worrying fall in sales of ...

Since December 2015 I have been a member on the infamous music streaming app Spotify.  I joined as my ambition for a career in the music industry was heightening rapidly, I was happy to start paying/signing up to subscriptions that were necessary for an aspiring music industry worker. For the first half a year that I was paying for Spotify, I was always unsure about keeping my subscription.  This is because although I very much enjoyed the experience of listening to new and old music offline for the first time, that was the only thing I would gain for £10.00 pm whilst all my other friends were getting the same thing illegally downloaded for free.   Of course it was brilliant to have so many albums available to me without the adds, but I fel t as such a famous music app, Spotify could of given a bit more features-wise. As another year went by and it was now the end of 2016, I noticed that a lot of my friends were now subscribed to Spotify or Apple mus...

Now that it is coming to the end of the year 2017, I am aware of which bands and artists have grown into my favourites over the year.  There has been a mixture of genres I have become a lot more aware of due to the positive influence of many different characters around me encouraging me to listen to new, more underground styles of music.  All of the people in my life have varied music tastes meaning that each year I have more and more influences.   I delved deeper into genres this year such as emo (and emo rap), rock, indie, blues, alternative R&/B/Hip Hop and even Tropical House just from being around fans of the genres and catching on to their interest. The first band I became a new fan of this year/end of last year is Wolf Alice ... Wolf Alice are a four-piece Australian alternative rock band who bring a completely new sound to the music scene.  Lead singer Ellie Rowsell has become a huge musical inspiration to me personally be...

So in the beginnings of a new blog, I figured I'd start off writing about my biggest celebrity inspiration, Elizabeth Woolridge Grant AKA 'Lana Del Rey.' Lana is best known for her music career, releasing chart topping hits such as 'Summertime Sadness' and internet (Tumblr) sensations like 'Video Games.'  I discovered Lana's music when I was 14, an age when I was only just starting to figure out my musical preferences. I was first struck by the song Born To Die as I was aimlessly scrolling through Tumblr, and later on listened to the entire deluxe edition of the album 'Born to Die: Paradise.'  This has stayed my number one favourite album ever since, my favourite track being 'Yayo.' The album tells a story of freedom, alcoholism, drug abuse and youth.  One of Lana's best known phrases stemmed from this album, as she recites during the intro to the 1o minute long video to 'Ride' "Live fast, Die Young, Be Wild and ...