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Digital Music News is an American online magazine. It provides coverage ranging from tidbits [1] to everyday reporting [2] to major stories. [3]

Contents

The magazine has criticized hate groups, [4] [5] gone to court and "protected .. right to privacy", [6] and written about family values [7] and Black Lives Matter. [8] [9] [10]

Overview

Digital Music News was founded by Paul Resnikoff. [11] [12] [13] The site serves as a news source [14] [15] and a source of "to quote from". [16] [17] [18] At times, they're the "first reported by". [19] [3]

Some of its data on the economics of the industry has been used by others such as The Wall Street Journal [20] [21] and The Economist [22] regarding trends. [23] The site has been described by The New York Times as an industry blog. [24] [25]

In 2012 it was in the middle of a protection-of-journalistic-sources lawsuit, [26] [6] [27] and they've reported on other legal matters. [28] [29] For some of their stories, they act as a news aggregator, but they also serve as the source for such aggregation by major newspapers such as The New York Times [30] and news magazines such as Newsweek [31] and Wired . [32] [33] In 2017, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution wrote, regarding a Digital Music News story reporting a Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) finding about online music hate groups, that "Less than 24 hours after the article was published, Spotify scrapped the music from its platform." [5]

Features

Aside from doing popularity and "Top 10" stories, [34] [35] they also look into industry-related topics [36] [37] and industry history. [38] A 2005 MacWorld opinion piece about piracy and pricing centered around a Digital Music News column stating "The real boogeyman may be in the pricing." [39] In 2018, BBC's "YouTube's neo-Nazi music problem" had three paragraphs describing the timeliness of investigation and reporting by Digital Music News. [40]

Their email newsletter is called Daily Snapshot. [41] [42]

Competition

Their reporting competes with sources such as Webnoize [43] but they each specialize differently. [44] [45] [46] FutureMusic.com is another competitor. [47] [48] [49] FYI Music News, a Canadian website that coopetates with them, reprints some of their material. [50]

Criticism

Franklin Graves, a 2010 Samford University graduate and corporate counsel for Naxos Music Group, [51] claimed in 2015 that "Everyone knows DigitalMusicNews.com is extremely biased and heavy with click-bait links". [52]

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References

  1. ↑ "Pandora and Spotify Rake In the Money and Then Send It Off In Royalties". The New York Times . August 24, 2012. on digitalmusicnews.com wrote this on April 14th
  2. ↑ "BTS 'Map of the Soul: Persona' Trailer Drops Spicy 'But ..." Newsweek . March 27, 2019. as reported by Digital Music News
  3. 1 2 "After 7 Years, Wal-Mart Closes Its MP3 Store". The New York Times. August 9, 2011. Wal-Mart's decision was first reported by Digital Music News
  4. ↑ Ben Sisario (August 17, 2017). "White-Power Rock Bands Find Platform Online to Incite Hatred". The New York Times.
  5. 1 2 Brianna Chambers (August 18, 2017). "Spotify pulls white supremacist music from the service". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
  6. 1 2 "Digital Music News LLC v. LLC: Court of Appeal, Second District". May 14, 2014.
  7. ↑ "Why Your Kids Love Snapchat, and Why You Should Let Them". The New York Times. November 5, 2015.
  8. ↑ "BTS Donates $1MM to Black Lives Matter". June 8, 2020.
  9. ↑ Dylan Smith (May 31, 2020). "Music Industry Calls for 'Black Out Tuesday' to Protest Police Violence". to suspend operations .. this Tuesday, June 2nd
  10. ↑ Ashley King (June 3, 2020). "TikTok Issues Apology to Black Creators for Censoring Protest Videos".
  11. ↑ Ben Sisario (January 18, 2012). "Digital Notes: Grooveshark Copyright Suit and Its Unusual Evidence". The New York Times. Paul Resnikoff, the site's publisher and founder
  12. ↑ "About Us".
  13. ↑ "When the cloud goes poof".
  14. ↑ "Target Begs to Be Heard in John Legend Subway Promotion". Advertising Age. January 23, 2008. (Ad Age article hyperlinks to):http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/stories/012008target/view
  15. ↑ Ben Fox Rubin; Joan E. Solsman (June 24, 2014). "YouTube leaked contract hits off-notes for indie labels". CNET.
  16. ↑ "Hip-Hip-Hop You Don't Stop". Advertising Age. August 21, 2008. To quote from Paul Resnikoff's recent 'Parting Shot' in Digital Music News ...
  17. ↑ "Digital Music News details '52 Ways To Screw an Artist'". Alternative Press. September 21, 2012.
  18. ↑ "Garth Brooks returns with new music and a new tour, on his own terms". The Washington Post . July 11, 2014.
  19. ↑ "The Black Keys black out Spotify, MOG, Rdio and Rhapsody". The Los Angeles Times. December 7, 2011. The band's decision, first reported by Digital Music News {{cite news}}: External link in |quote= (help)
  20. ↑ "The Daily Start-Up: Blip Networks Channels New Funding". The Wall Street Journal.
  21. ↑ "New Blow to Music as Concerts Fizzle". The Wall Street Journal . December 30, 2010.
  22. ↑ "Not signing off yet - How is college radio faring". The Economist . June 27, 2018.
  23. ↑ "Autotune - The Top 10 Everything of 2009". Time . December 8, 2009. downloaded an average of 10,000 times a day.
  24. ↑ Ben Sisario (June 24, 2014). "Indie Music's Digital Drag". The New York Times .
  25. ↑ "Sony and Warner Are Said to Join Suit Against Grooveshark". The New York Times . December 14, 2011.
  26. ↑ Ben Sisario (January 20, 2012). "Digital Notes: Blogger Rejects Subpoena in Grooveshark Case". The New York Times .
  27. ↑ Devon Glenn. "Did a Grooveshark Employee Admit to Pirating Entire Albums?". AdWeek .
  28. ↑ "European Social Network Site VKontakte Cleared of Copyright infringement Claims". Bloomberg Law. of copyright infringement claims by a St. Petersburg court, Digital Music News reported. ... uploading of their musical works, according to Digital Music News.
  29. ↑ "Class action for copyright termination against Sony Music". April 5, 2020. Earlier this week, Digital Music News was first to report that another (albeit similar) class action against Universal Music had also been allowed[ permanent dead link ]
  30. ↑ Saul Hansell (August 2, 2007). "Quick Bits: Google's Wireless Plans and a Merger Abandoned". The New York Times .
  31. ↑ "#WonhoWeGotYourBack Trends as 300,000 Monsta X Fans ... according to Digital Music News". Newsweek . November 7, 2019.
  32. ↑ Eliot Van Buskirk (June 13, 2008). "Digital Music News". Wired. according to Digital Music News
  33. ↑ "Why Vinyl Is Doing So Well Again". The Atlantic . January 4, 2013. Per Digital Music News, most of
  34. ↑ "Autotune - The Top 10 Everything of 2009". Time . December 8, 2009.
  35. ↑ "The Popularity of Digits Music Services, 2004-Present". DigitalMusicNews.com. November 12, 2015.
  36. ↑ M. A. Einhorn (February 17, 2005). "Peer-to-Peer Networking and Digital Rights" (PDF). Cato Institute .
  37. ↑ Erica Lomotan (August 1, 2017). "Digital Music News: 'Ultimate Ears: Continuing To Refine And Improve Their Offerings'". Archived from the original on October 21, 2020. Retrieved October 19, 2020.
  38. ↑ "40 Years of Music Industry History in Less than a Minute". Time . April 9, 2013. to visualize part of that journey starting in 1973, Digital Music News rolled up its sleeves
  39. ↑ Glenn (August 29, 2005). "Insight Out: What Price Music?". MacWorld .
  40. ↑ "YouTube's neo-Nazi music problem". BBC. March 20, 2018.
  41. ↑ "Live 365, Inc" (PDF). Copyright Royalty Board (Library of Congress). January 15, 2009.
  42. ↑ Andrew McCluskey (February 3, 2010). "Digital Music News". I've been reading DMN for 4 years now
  43. ↑ "Napster Is Told to Remain Shut". The New York Times. July 12, 2001. according to Webnoize, a digital music news and research service
  44. ↑ "Napster alliance could open door for advertisers". Advertising Age. November 6, 2000. said .. Webnoize, an Internet consultant[ permanent dead link ]
  45. ↑ "Crunchtime: Warner Music Group". Advertising Age. May 7, 2001. Webnoize, a music Internet consultancy
  46. ↑ "Offspring's new offer: free music over Web". Advertising Age. Webnoize, an Internet entertainment research company
  47. ↑ Anne Eisenberg (January 20, 2008). "For Disc Jockeys as Well as Desk Jockeys". The New York Times. Brotman, whose Web site, www.futuremusic.com, reports on new music technology
  48. ↑ Sarah Milstein (February 28, 2002). "Electronic Virtuosos Enliven Performances". The New York Times.
  49. ↑ Not to be confused with the 1998-founded futuremusic.com.au, "School Music Specialists since 1998"
  50. ↑ Steve Gordon (August 6, 2015). "A Simple Guide To Signing the Best Sync Deal Possible". third installment of an 11-part series on basic music industry agreements re-printed from Digital Music News
  51. ↑ "Alumni".
  52. ↑ "Where to Find Music Industry News". May 14, 2015.
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