Bill Werde vs Angela Cheng - is the Billboard chart broken?

http://noisey.vice.com/blog/is-the-billboard-chart-broken-or-is-one-internet-troll-trying-to-sabotage-lady-gaga-dope-2014

experts deconstruct the appeal of Happy by Pharrell

http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/apr/08/pharrell-williams-happy-single

Research finds YouTube hurts music album sales (with reference to Warner Music)

http://torrentfreak.com/youtube-hurts-music-album-sales-research-finds-140409/

Stop making viral videos, start making a YouTube content strategy

http://bzzzsocial.com/stop-making-viral-videos-start-making-youtube-content-strategy/

Lucian Grainge Buzzfeed article

http://www.buzzfeed.com/richardmorgan/how-universal-music-ceo-lucian-grainge-became-the-most-power

Teenagers on Reddit talk about what's cool

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/shortcuts/2014/apr/02/teenagers-adolescents-cool-snapchat-street-cred

Beggars Group streaming payments

http://musically.com/2014/04/07/beggars-group-recalibrates-50-streaming-payment-to-artists-and-attacks-youtube/

explanation of how much Facebook posts get seen and why

http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/03/the-filtered-feed-problem/

Bill Werde on how rumours and outright lies spread on the internet with reference to Lady Gaga

http://billwerde.tumblr.com/post/81315438479/on-angela-cheng-lady-gaga-and-the-culpability-of

Hits on Richard Griffiths, Steve Barnett and others

http://www.hitsdailydouble.com/news/newsPage.cgi?news09802

interview with Joel Katz

http://www.hitsdailydouble.com/news/newsPage.cgi?news09804

interview with Patrick Leonard about working with Madonna

http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop-shop/5944767/madonna-producer-patrick-leonard-talks-like-a-prayer-at-25

why Wu Tang will release just one copy of its secret album

http://www.forbes.com/sites/zackomalleygreenburg/2014/03/26/why-wu-tang-will-release-just-one-copy-of-its-secret-album/

OWSLA's Nick Thayer breaks down how much he earns

http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/permalink/2014/03/24/nickthayer

interview with Spotify's Ken Parks

http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/digital-and-mobile/5930388/spotifys-ken-parks-on-an-ipo-the-echo-nest-purchase-qa

Lucian Grainge piece in the LA Times

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-fi-ct-music-business-change-20140309,0,536651,full.story#axzz2vP7nOTeL

10 new rules of the music industry

http://theboombox.com/10-new-rules-of-the-music-industry/

"I'm a producer engineer and I'm invisible on digital music services"

http://thisindustrythingofours.wordpress.com/2012/04/23/im-a-producer-engineer-and-im-invisible-on-digital-music-services/

8 steps to a million YouTube music channel views

http://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2014/02/8-steps-to-a-million-youtube-music-channel-views.html

an independent artist's take on Spotify

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/ron-pope/spotify-independent-artists_b_4803404.html

here's every American state's favourite band

http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-every-states-favorite-band-2014-2

Impatience Has Its Reward - Books Are Rolled Out Faster

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/11/books/impatience-has-its-reward-books-are-rolled-out-faster.html

The Beatles and the history of merchandising in music

http://www.themusicnetwork.com/50-years-beatles-history-merchandising-music/

what is really cannibalising download sales?

http://musicindustryblog.wordpress.com/2014/02/07/what-is-really-cannibalising-download-sales/

The music industry's YouTube problem

http://musically.com/2014/02/07/music-allys-midem-recap-the-music-industrys-youtube-problem/

Roseanne Cash on Spotify, YouTube and social media

http://mashable.com/2014/02/07/rosanne-cash/

Daft Punk interview from 2007

http://pitchfork.com/features/interviews/6701-daft-punk/

A Chuck Philips article about how the record industry was in 2001: high risk, low margin

http://articles.latimes.com/2001/may/31/news/mn-4713

7 things a record deal teaches you about the music industry by Spose

http://www.cracked.com/article_20939_7-things-record-deal-teaches-you-about-music-industry_p2.html

Google and piracy

http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/permalink/2014/02/04/pirategoogle

how big is music on YouTube?

http://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2014/01/how-big-is-music-on-you-tube-hint-really-big-infographic.html

London Grammar Jazz Summers

http://www.musicweek.com/news/read/london-grammar-teaching-the-music-business-important-lessons/057487

Max Martin

http://www.celebritynetworth.com/articles/entertainment-articles/max-martin-powerful-person-music-business-people-never-even-head-name/

Will Beats Music trump Spotify with its artist charm offensive?

http://www.theguardian.com/media/media-blog/2014/jan/15/beats-music-spotify-artist-royalties-dr-dre-trent-reznor

Troy Carter interview

http://www.fastcompany.com/3024171/step-up-troy-carter

What Beats Music needs to do to be a success

http://musicindustryblog.wordpress.com/2014/01/14/what-beats-music-needs-to-do-to-be-a-success/

Beats Music enters online streaming market

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/12/arts/music/beats-music-enters-online-streaming-market.html?_r=0

are clueless labels ruining mix platforms like Soundcloud?

http://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2014/01/are-clueless-labels-ruining-mix-platforms-like-soundcloud.html

how successful songs have changed over the decades

http://blog.echonest.com/post/70299217721/7-decades-7-musical-evolutions

Spotify’s revised plan to dominate the crap out of rival music services

http://venturebeat.com/2013/12/12/spotifys-revised-plan-to-dominate-the-crap-out-of-rival-music-services/

Amazon's best sellers of all-time

http://evolver.fm/2013/12/13/amazons-music-numbers-reveal-differences-in-fans-based-on-format/

Beyoncé

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/16/business/media/beyonce-rejects-tradition-for-social-medias-power.html?ref=media&_r=0

http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/branding/5839718/how-beyonces-beyonce-stayed-secret-until-the-day-of-release-its

13 ways to make money with your songs

http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/digital-and-mobile/5839701/13-ways-to-make-money-with-your-songs-guest-post

why full albums need to go from YouTube right away

http://musicindustryblog.wordpress.com/2013/12/06/why-full-albums-need-to-go-from-youtube-right-away/

Soundcloud names best marketing campaigns of 2013

http://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2013/12/soundcloud-names-best-marketing-campaigns-of-2013-exclusive.html

Noel Gallagher's Epic Year-End Gripe Session

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/noel-gallaghers-epic-year-end-gripe-session-20131205

interview with Martin Goldschmidt of Cooking Vinyl

http://www.themusicnetwork.com/hot-seat-martin-goldschmidt-founder-cooking-vinyl/

what Spotify's royalty numbers don't tell us

http://pando.com/2013/12/04/what-spotifys-royalty-numbers-dont-tell-us/

This includes the claim that artists (not labels) are "paid by their 'market share.' This means the higher the percentage of Spotify’s total streams an artist comprises, the higher payout he receives per stream. Macklemore and Rihanna, the most streamed artists of 2013, receive more than Galaxie 500. Interestingly, Spotify calculates this by artist, not by song, so a modest hit by Galaxie 500 would earn a lower per-stream rate than an unpopular Macklemore song."

Biggest Soundcloud mistakes

http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/permalink/2013/11/19/biggestsoundcloudmistakes

Spotify explain what they pay out

http://www.musicweek.com/news/read/it-s-official-spotify-pays-out-between-0-007-per-stream/056928