[x-pubpol] Fwd: FMC's Artist Revenue Streams: recent releases and events

Fri Dec 7 18:50:23 PST 2012

An update from Kristin, who appeared at ISOC DC's Future of Music
Event<http://isoc-ny.org/p2/4237>earlier in the year.

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From: Kristin Thomson <kristin at futureofmusic.org>
Date: Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 6:00 PM
Subject: FMC's Artist Revenue Streams: recent releases and events

      <http://futureofmusic.org/ars>

*This is your periodic update about FMC's Artist Revenue Streams project, a
multi-method, cross-genre examination of musicians' sources of income.*

*New publications*

*Leverage *

In the course of doing this work, one of the most revealing things that we
have found is the different amounts of leverage that musicians have over
how -- and how much -- they are paid.  We've also noticed the general lack
of understanding about how rates are set, and who is at the bargaining
table. For FMC's Summit, Jean Cook put together a clear presentation that
explains the typical stakeholders in negotiations, and if/how musicians can
influence how much they are paid.  Jean has recently converted her
presentation into a more robust post here:
http://money.futureofmusic.org/leverage/

*Mythbusting *

One of the reasons that we even took up this work in the first place was to
counter some assumptions that are commonly made about how musicians make
money -- things like "all musicians are rich", or "musicians make all their
money on merch".  At SXSW this year, we ran a panel that tackled some of
these assumptions with data. We are now converting that conversation into a
four part data-driven series that challenges the veracity of these myths.
We started to publishing these this week, you can read the first two
installments here:
http://money.futureofmusic.org/mythbusting/

*Recent publications and presentations*

In July, Berklee College of Music's Music Business
Journal<http://www.thembj.org/2012/07/diy-musicians-alone-together/>posted
a longform article by Kristin that covers revenue streams and the
value of team members, as a data-driven counterweight to the notion that
musicians can do it all themselves.

We were also invited to post an article on the blog Scholars and
Rogues<http://scholarsandrogues.com/2012/09/20/special-report-new-future-of-music-coalition-study-finds-that-technology-is-a-double-edged-sword-for-musicians/>in
September.

Our work was also cited in the recent Berklee College of Music Salary
Survey<http://www.berklee.edu/pdf/pdf/studentlife/Music_Salary_Guide.pdf>.

...which was then cited by Jimmy Jam in his recent testimony in front of
the House Judiciary Committee.

*Recent events*

Jean and Kristin have been busy attending events. We talked about our
findings at New Music Seminar, The Recording Academy's Independents' Day,
San Diego Music Thing, Pop Montreal, San Fran Music Tech, CMJ, Music and
Copyright, and the annual Future of Music Summit. We also did an in-depth
revenue streams workshop with Words, Beats and Life prior to FMC's Summit.

*Media coverage*

The amount of media coverage continues to grow.  There's an entire
list here<http://futureofmusic.org/tags/artist-revenue-streams-project>,
but some highlights:

Chicago Tribune<http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/columnists/ct-biz-1202-phil-rolling-stones--20121202,0,642570.column>

Huffington Post<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/30/musicians-income_n_1719908.html>

NPR<http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2012/04/09/150287405/how-to-succeed-in-the-music-industry-by-trying-really-really-hard>

NPR's A Blog Supreme<http://www.npr.org/blogs/ablogsupreme/2011/10/04/141061716/how-do-jazz-musicians-make-money>

Sound Opinions <http://www.soundopinions.org/shownotes/2012/050412/shownotes.html>

Beyond the Book podcast <http://beyondthebookcast.com/can-music-pay/>

Harvard's Radio
Berkman<http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mediaberkman/2012/05/04/rb-201-the-42-streams-rethinking-music-x/>

Policy By The Numbers<http://policybythenumbers.blogspot.com/2012/06/off-charts-examining-musicians-earning.html>

*Published reports*

All the reports to date are on the Artist Revenue Streams site at
http://money.futureofmusic.org.

Mythbusting: "Musicians are rich"<http://money.futureofmusic.org/mythbusting/2/>

Mythbusting: "Musicians make all their money from
touring"<http://money.futureofmusic.org/mythbusting/3/>

Leverage <http://money.futureofmusic.org/leverage/>

Off the Charts: Examining Musicians' Income from Sound
Recording<http://money.futureofmusic.org/sound-recording-income/>

Jazz Musicians and Money from
Music<http://money.futureofmusic.org/jazz-musicians/>

Are Musicians Making More or Less
Money?<http://money.futureofmusic.org/are-musicians-making-more-or-less-money/>

How Many Musicians Are
There?<http://money.futureofmusic.org/how-many-musicians-are-there/>

Does Radio Airplay
Matter?<http://money.futureofmusic.org/does-radio-airplay-matter/>

Teams, Time Allocation and
Technology<http://money.futureofmusic.org/rethink-teams-time-allocation-and-technology/>

Musicians' Teammates and their Effect on Earnings
<http://money.futureofmusic.org/teams/>

On the Money <http://money.futureofmusic.org/cmw-on-the-money/> from
Canadian Music Week

Five Financial Case Studies <http://money.futureofmusic.org/case-studies/>

Orchestral Recordings and Performer
Payments<http://money.futureofmusic.org/orchestral-recordings-and-performer-payments/>

Are Musicians Benefiting from
Music/Tech?<http://money.futureofmusic.org/are-musicians-benefiting-from-music-tech-sf-musictech-presentation/>from
San Fran Music Tech

A First Look at Jazz
Musicians<http://money.futureofmusic.org/a-first-look-at-jazz-musicians/>from
Arts Presenters JazzConnect conversation

Going to Music School<http://money.futureofmusic.org/going-to-music-school/>from
Network of Career Development Officers conference

Bands, Brands and
Revenue<http://money.futureofmusic.org/the-new-power-trio-bands-brands-and-revenue/>from
MIDEM's Visionay Monday programming

Survey Snapshot <http://money.futureofmusic.org/survey-snapshot/> some
demographic details about survey respondents

Maps of Survey Respondents<http://money.futureofmusic.org/maps-of-survey-respondents/>

Why "I Don't Know" Is An Acceptable
Answer.<http://money.futureofmusic.org/why-i-dont-know-is-an-acceptable-answer/>A
number of blogs (Digital Music News in particular) wrote about our
presentation at San Fran Music Tech. This, naturally, led to a handful of
blog comments that needed correction. This post is a longer form answer to
one of the comments on Digital Music News' blog.

Case Studies: Revenue versus
Ratios<http://money.futureofmusic.org/case-studies-revenue-ratios/>.
Similar to above, a post that expounds on our case study methodology.

*Additional presentations and events*

In addition to periodic releases from FMC, we will be at the following
events.
* = confirmed as presenter/panelist

   - January 2013: Arts Presenters Conference (New York, NY) *
   - January 2013: Jazz Educators Network (New York, NY) *
   - January 2013: NY Bar Association (New York, NY) *
   - January 2013: IAMIC Winter Meeting (Nice, FR) *
   - February 2013: San Fran Music Tech (San Francisco, CA)
   - March 2013: SNAAP Conference (Nashville, TN) *
   - March 2013: South by Southwest (Austin, TX)

 Thanks for your interest! Feel free to contact Jean<jean at futureofmusic.org>or
Kristin <kristin at futureofmusic.org> if you have questions.

 FMC's Artist Revenue Streams team
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