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How A Song Licensing Opportunity Is Shooting This Groups Song Up The Charts
Sunday’s Super Bowl XLVI game delivered an incredible 111.3 million viewers, making it the most watched of all time. With that came opportunity for brands and specifically artist to get in on the action. Nate Ruess, who is group “Fun” frontman said, “I’ve been doing this for 10 years and never had anything happen quite…
CES Las Vegas here we come! Would you like to meet? Schedule your meeting with FCA!
First Class Alliance will be attending this years Consumer Electronics Show 2012 in Las Vegas best known as CES next week. Let us if you would like to meet! We are currently setting up meetings, if you just found us and are not familiar with who we are; First Class Alliance (FCA) is the music…
Travelling, going to space? Protect your Ipad Tablet incase it falls 100K feet.
If your the adventurous active type and like taking your Ipad everywhere with you. You may want to get an Ipad Extreme Edge case made by G-Form. If your out hiking, camping, hang gliding, or even being shot into space, at least you can rest assure that your Apple Ipad will be safe and free…
2011 Year In Review, a thought provoking rewind of 2011
An inspiring and uplifting look back at 2011. Moving and thought provoking, “Sooner or later, I swear we’re gonna make it, we’re gonna make it” – Hollywood Henry
Spotify Opens itself up, takes notes from Facebook
Spotify announced the future launch of apps. Titled ”The Spotify Platform” in an attempt to make their service as interactive as possible. Developers will be able to use Spotify’s API to create rich interactive applications within Spotify, both increasing functionality and social aspects of the music streaming service. Expect apps with such capabilities as choosing…
Glimpse into the future of Robotics, meet QBO
We are an entertainment marketing agency that quite frankly loves using cutting-edge technology in our campaigns. So we’re constantly learning about what’s on the horizon in the world of technology. So here is a robot I am currently fascinated with, QBO. In this video Qbo see’s himself in a mirror for the first time, and…
Did Google just turn the Music Industry upside down?
Google Music is coming, like a tomahawk missile aimed directly at the digital music industry. The service includes such features as music store, social implementation, free music cloud for up to 20k songs, artist hub, T-Mobile on board as a mobile partner, share on Google+, and the ability to upload content. This is just for starters,…
Than there were 3, EMI will go to Universal Music Group, Publishing to go to Sony Music Entertainment
According to recent reports by Wall Street Journal, Vivendi will pay UMG “£1.2 billion ($1.91 billion) representing 7 x EBITDA prior to synergies, for EMI music division. While Sony Music Entertainment will take control over EMI Music Publishing for $2.2. billion. This leaves only 3 major record company’s as the industry continues to consolidate operations…
Global online music revenues are expected to rise by about 7% this year to $6.3 billion dollars
According to a new report by technology research firm Gartner. While this is good news they also point out that physical cd sales will fall to 10 Billion from 15 Billion, so again as my previous post mentioned while we are seeing revenue from digital mediums rise, they are patching up the holes in the…
How much revenue do artist really earn through traditional/non-traditional retail outlets?
I hear tech companies and outside the industry critics argue that the digital revolution is helping artists make more money than they could ever make with a major label deal. Consequently, this digital revolution is giving the power back to the artist and cutting the chord of dependency on the record labels. This sounds great…