On my latest podcast episode: Listen to it at BobbyOInnerCircle.com, or on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Mixcloud, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Deezer, TunIn Radio, and RadioPublic. Enjoy the show!
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It’s always been difficult to make it as an artist or band in the music industry. You can go all the way back to the 1950s and it’s almost always a one in a million chance that an artist would break through. Even as the democratization of music creation has developed in the 2000s, it’s […]
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We’ve all been led to believe that video sharing site TikTok is Gen Z’s social platform of choice, and every other generation is also falling in line. A new study by Pew Research has found that those assumptions are just that – assumptions, and they’re wrong. According to the study, more Americans ages 18 to […]
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This week’s podcast episode is dedicated to the memory of legendary guitarist, singer, songwriter, producer and film and television composer Wayne Kramer, who passed away recently. Wayne was far more influential than many realize as his band MC5 basically invented punk rock a full decade before it even emerged as a genre. The band and […]
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For artists, bands, engineers, and producers, the hardest team member to find is a manager. It’s critical to find someone who will look out for your business interests, yet a good music manager is most likely really busy already. That means that a he or she probably will not be interested in you until you […]
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The major record labels have been grousing about the meager royalties that TikTok pays for some time, but now Universal Music has decided to do something about it. The label is pulling its entire catalog from the service after the two companies couldn’t reach an agreement that ended in January. TikTok decided not only to […]
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On my latest podcast episode I take a big overview of the recent Winter NAMM 2024. Among the things discussed include: This is a short but to the point episode that will give you something to think about if you were there, and show you why your FOMO was unnecessary if you weren’t. Listen to […]
Continue readingThere are reports that TikTok is now experimenting with 30 minute videos in a beta version of its app. It shouldn’t come as much of a surprise since the platform has consistently increased its time limit, starting from its original 15 seconds per clip, to 60 seconds, 3 minutes, 5 minutes, then 10 minutes. Last […]
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On my latest podcast episode: Listen to it at BobbyOInnerCircle.com, or on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Mixcloud, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Deezer, TunIn Radio, and RadioPublic. Enjoy the show!
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It seems that every year a new modern-day vinyl sales record is being reported, which is a great sign for a music industry that could use more physical sales. The problem is, if one artist dominates those sales does that really mean that the vinyl industry is doing well? Music industry tracking company Luminate looked […]
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On my latest podcast episode: Listen to it at BobbyOInnerCircle.com, or on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Mixcloud, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Deezer, TunIn Radio, and RadioPublic. Enjoy the show!
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A couple of weeks ago we look at some copyright basics, now let’s take it a step further with an excerpt about Ai copyright from my new Musician’s Ai Handbook. “When it comes to the world of Ai copyright, there’s much confusion over who owns what, and this is directly a result of the fact […]
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On my latest podcast episode: Listen to it at BobbyOInnerCircle.com, or on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Mixcloud, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Deezer, TunIn Radio, and RadioPublic. Enjoy the show! P.S. Click here to save your seat for the free Music Supervisors Panel.
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When the pandemic arrived back in 2020, it hit the music business hard on all levels, but especially touring. It didn’t matter what level you were at as an artist, if you couldn’t gig you weren’t making money. That’s when livestreaming first popped up with great fanfare and hailed as the future of artists performing […]
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On the latest episode of my Inner Circle Podcast, I’ll be taking a look back at how my predictions for 2023 fared, as well as my predictions for 2024. Yep, I’m going out on a limb this year! Listen to it at BobbyOInnerCircle.com, or on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Mixcloud, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Deezer, TunIn Radio, and RadioPublic. Happy New Year, and […]
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