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Songkick Announces 100,000 New Users Through Spotify App
Songkick Announces 100,000 New Users Through Spotify App
There's a common saying in the concert and ticketing businesses that 40% of all tickets go unsold because people weren't aware of the shows. This 40% Rule seems to have come from Live Nation internal research. CEO Michael Rapino was using it as recently as July 2009, and since then the rule has been repeated throughout the music industry.
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On Monday night, Seventh and T streets NW will fill the familiar bustle of concertgoers queueing up for a show. They'll field through a glamorous marble lobby, perhaps pause at a long, illuminated bar and wait excitedly for the velvet curtains to part on a perfomance by breakout Washington rapper Wale. But it won't be lost on anyone what they're also here for: to see the Howard Theatre, once the nucleus of Washington's Black Broadway, shine again.
It took only three decades.
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It’s one of the top 10 questions I’m asked: ASCAP, BMI or SESAC? Which one should I Join? Here’s a rock ‘n’ roll answer: How about none of them. At least not right away. All of these competing Performing Rights Organizations (PROs) spend a great deal of their members’ money selling “belonging” as if there is an immediate benefit to membership, like collecting money that they have been holding for you. But experience indicates that you’d be better off waiting to sign with any of them. Wonder why? Here’s the truth about PRO’s in this three part series taken from Moses Avalon’s latest book, 100 Answers to 50 Questions on the Music Business.
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