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Google Play Music All Access Subscription: The Pros, The Cons and What Makes It Different Infographic: When Is The Best Time To Post On Social Media? Daft Punk's Random Access Memories Marketing Adapts Well To The Web Pew Study: Teens Are Moving From Facebook To Twitter Lively Launches Concert Recording & Sales App [...]

As musicians transform into stars, they begin to receive a lot of attention at varying levels of intensity. How to find a way to make things personal yet focus on superfans is a difficulty. Hang W/ and Upfront offer solutions that monetize social media and networks with an emphasis on videos and exclusive content. Hang W/ and Upfront are possible exceptions to the rule that artists should keep fan relationships in-house for closer connections. There are circumstances in which third party platforms can be powerful, such as Twitter and Facebook, or can offer [...]

Fame House's  Hisham Dahud  is in Ibiza, Spain helping put on the  International Music Summit .  IMS is a high level music industry conference attended by the global industry leaders in the dance music scene and signals the official launch of the Ibiza season. The sixth  International Music Summit  kicked off Wednesday May 22 nd , 2013 from the gorgeous Ibiza Gran Hotel on the island of Ibiza, Spain. The vibe was electric, as the sold out event drew in people from all parts of the dance music space from [...]

Daft Punk is back with a wide-ranging marketing campaign for their new album "Random Access Memories." Though using teasers and promos is normal for high profile albums, Daft Punk has brought a special flair to their promotions that has been matched in many respects by the response of their fans to their return. Though Daft Punk can't help but reference the past, they adapt well to the web. Daft Punk's " Random Access Memories " is expected to be the fastest selling album of the year in the UK and their [...]

A month after launch, Twitter #Music is certainly not setting the world on fire , In fact ,as of yesterday it had fallen out of the top 100 free music apps . They are, however, already iterating to improve the offering. Today, Twitter added charts that look very similar to those previously found on WeAreHunted, the innovative music discovery startup that Twitter acquired to power much of #Music. Users can toggle through 10 genres and examine #Music activity on artists [...]

Fame House's Hisham Dahud is currently in Ibiza, Spain helping to put on the International Music Summit . IMS is a high level music industry conference attended by the global industry leaders in the dance music scene and signals the official launch of the Ibiza season. These are his reports from the island. The sixth  International Music Summit  kicked off Wednesday May 22 nd , 2013 from the gorgeous Ibiza Gran Hotel on the island of Ibiza, Spain. The vibe was electric, as the sold out event drew in people [...]

Pandora today launched a new Timeline app and site upgrades that make it easier to share music on Facebook. Pandora lusers can customize what they want to share (songs, radio, etc) with music activity appearing in the News Feed, Activity Log and Music section of timeline as determined by Facebook's ranking algorithms. All settings related to sharing music activity can be adjusted both on Pandora and Facebook. Pandora Chief Technology Officer and EVP of Product, Tom Conrad said in a statement, "For those who want to share, Pandora's [...]

Facebook adoption and use by teens is flattening off, according to a new Pew Research study.  But Twitter uses is slowly but steadily growing. Eight in ten online teens use some kind of social media, says Pew. Twitter is still not in the same league as Facebook, which attracts 77% of online teens. Still, 24% of online teens now use Twitter, a figure that is up from 16% in 2011. 16% of online adults are Twitter users. [...]

Urturn provides creative templates or "Expressions" for social media that shift the typical post and like exchange to an encouragement to take "your turn" and express yourself by combining audio and video elements in a shareable, postable form. It's been used for a number of music marketing campaigns since they started out in late 2011. Today they have two big announcements, the raising of a funding round of $13.4 million and the launch of their first mobile app. Urturn launched in 2011 as Webdoc, a more complicated offering that provided graphics, [...]

Just a month after launch , Twitter's entry into the music space appears to have fallen flat.  As if today, the app languishes as the 113th most popular free iOS music app.  To provide perspective as to how poorly that means #Music is doing, several years after launch Spotify and Pandora remain #1 and #2; and something called Sing! Karaoke is the 9th most popular free music apps. Perhaps even worse, none of the tastemakers and musicians that I follow appear to be using the #Music app.  And if they [...]

Yesterday's news that Yahoo is buying Tumblr is certainly big for musicians given the widespread usage of Tumblr for music blogs often as an adjunct to an official website. But it also overshadowed Yahoo's relaunch of Flickr, a fading giant making a comeback at a time that might be ideal for musicians who've taken to services like Instagram and/or who see the possiblities in content marketing via Creative Commons licensing. Yahoo buying Tumblr is big news for those using quick content sharing to market their music and have a more [...]

You spend hours every week to craft the right tweets and Facebook posts.  You're even pinning photos and graphics. But you're not getting results.  One reason may be the time of day that you post.  Every social media outlets has it's optimal posting times. Nothing replaces your own testing, but this infographic offers a great place to start.  via Socialcaffeine.com Related articles Developing Your [...]

Does iTunes' Daft Punk Album Premier Demonstrate Its Marketing Strength? Infographic: How We Discover And Consume Music Music Sponsorships Top $1.28 Billion In 2013 With Murder For Hire Charges Looming, As I Lay Dying Cancels Tour Google Takes On Spotify & Pandora With New Streaming Music Service Kyle Bylin Releases Divergent Streams: Reflections [...]

Bowie’s in space. So farewell then, Commander Hadfield. After five months tweeting us stunning images of ourselves from space , the Canadian astronaut came back to Earth but not before uploading the first pop video from outer space: his goosebumps-inducing version of Space Oddity . For your services to science, education and the use of social media, we properly salute you. Latakia, Syria - deceptively calm and beautiful, strife-torn on the shore on the sea. Peaceful from such a distance. http://t.co/SoWWZ5BU — Chris Hadfield (@Cmdr_Hadfield) [...]

The 10 most viral tracks on Spotify, based on the number of people who shared it divided by the number who listened, from May 6 - 12 on Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter and Spotify. United States 1. Lorde, "Royals" (Lava Music/Republic Records) 2. Mariah Carey, "Beautiful" (The Island Def Jam Music Group) 3. Falling in Reverse, "Alone" (Epitaph) 4. Tamar Braxton, "The One" (Epic/Streamline Records) 5. Bingo Players, "Rattle (Sexy Lady)" (Republic Records) MORE: 6. Robin Thicke, "Blurred Lines" (Star Trak LLC) [...]

By  Kyle Bylin ( @sidewinderfm ), founder and editor of sidewinder.fm , a music and tech think tank. So far we have explored the music blog landscape and how it has has changed in recent years, as well as whether music blogs have reached a mainstream audience . In this final interview panel on music blogs, David Greenwald and Nicole Cifani, two influential thinkers and tastemakers in the music industry, weigh in on how the way in which music blogs tell stories has evolved and whether they think music blogs have turned [...]

UndergroundMusic.fm is a new free streaming music platform for "underground" musicians designed to build community and spread music. Streaming is free but there's also a store aspect and an option to tip for each song. It's a nice idea that is ultimately dependent on who gets involved and whether or not an audience is drawn. UndergroundMusic.fm is in many ways a simple idea that's hard to pull off. Create a solid, straightforward platform for streaming music, include monetization and community elements and build an outpost for great music via any [...]

Just when you think you've got your Facebook page looking good, your privacy settings tweaked and you're posting startegy down,  Facebook makes another major and unexpected change.  Frustrating, isn't it? Extremely Decent, a sketch comedy group based in Los Angeles agrees and is created this "real life" video of a Facebook update.

After almost five years, we've finally re-designed ThrashHits.com. We think it looks a bit better than before. Hopefully it'll make your time on the site, reading about our and your favourite bands, a whole load better. Here's a run-down of all the new things that you can find on Thrash Hits... Featured article boxes - We've decided we should tell you which two articles we think you need to digest. Think of it as curated content rather than us not trusting you to make a the correct choice but... [...]