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Sunday, February 2, 2014

Investors Put $2.4 Billion Into Music


In the 57 investment deals totaling over $2.4 billion tracked by Billboard, nearly 9 in 10 dollars invested went to a traditional music company, an EDM concert promoter or a company that streams music. Most of the investments were made in small, digital startups. Some are trying to improve how people discover concerts. A handful of them are changing how people create music.

A similar company hoping to disrupt the recorded music market is Beats Music, a subscription service that launched Jan. 21. An offshoot of Beats Electronics, the maker of the popular Beats By Dr. Dre headphones, Beats Music raised $60 million from Access Industries, the owner of Warner Music Group. (A year earlier, Access placed $130 million in Deezer, a competitor of Spotify and Beats Music.)


Warner Music Group’s acquisition of Parlophone Label Group was the biggest single investment in music in 2013. The $765 million deal, representing nearly a third of the year’s music investments, gave Warner not only Parlophone and Chrysalis but EMI’s operations in a handful of European countries. Also in this category was the acquisition of Nettwerk Music Group for $10.3 million in April.

Investors in streaming music were attracted to scale, potential and momentum rather than profitability. Services that provide on-demand streaming either audio or video raised $406.5 million. The largest deal was a $250 million investment in Spotify, an unprofitable company that’s a category leader and has 24 million active users — not all of them paying customers — across 55 countries.


SFX Entertainment accounted for the next-largest bucket, concert promotion, worth $480 million. The EDM-focused company’s initial public stock offering in October raised $260 million. It also acquired three EDM promoters: ID&T for $130 million, i-Motion for $21 million and Totem OneLove Group for $69.1 million.

In spite of a reputation for difficult business models and costly licensing fees, services that use licensed music attracted $838.8 million, or 49% of all investments. Four deals landed by Internet radio companies raised $443.3 million. Following Pandora’s $393.3-million secondary stock offering were smaller venture capital rounds by TuneIn ($25 million), DeliRadio ($9.4 million) and Songza ($4.7 million). There is a catch: TuneIn is merely an aggregator of Internet radio streams and doesn’t itself pay any royalties.

Investors backed numerous companies that help consumers find music they like. The smallest investment was $100,000 in Bop.fm, an online tool that aggregates songs from various digital music services. Two other startups that offer aggregation tools, Songdrop and MFiveLabs, received funding. Investors also backed numerous companies that help people discovery music or concerts. Most such deals were small, but music identification app Shazam received a $40-million investment from the world’s richest man, Carlos Slim.

Friday, January 18, 2019

Why China Has The Fastest Growing Market For Music


China’s music market is one of the fastest growing markets in the world. If you don’t want to enter China, your music business is equal to “drop a big wallet”. The world’s most populous country, and their consumers’ pockets are bulging, and there is no reason why you should not come to China to do the music business.

Friday, December 15, 2017

Best Digital Media Apps To Have Your Music On

The Wrap-Up Magazine.com has been looking for the hottest digital media websites online for artist to promote their music. Digital media are any media that are encoded in a machine-readable format.
Digital media can be created, viewed, distributed, modified and preserved on computers and androids. Take a look at some of these websites below to submit your content to today. Find Out How!

Wednesday, April 18, 2018

The Big Push To Reform Music Copyright


Momentum is building around a number of bills proposed in Congress that could increase royalty payments for music creators in the digital age while making life more efficient for digital music services.

Friday, October 16, 2020

Stream @ganstamarcus on all Digital Music Services

 

The Wrap Up Magazine is proud to present Gansta Marcus of Lima, Ohio. Not only is Gansta Marcus a artist, he is also a promoter and producer.


We invite you to stream music provided by Gansta Marcus and his production company on any digital platform you may use.


In case you don't see your music platform of choice below, then Click Here For More Services

Thursday, December 24, 2020

How to build a team of experts to support your DIY music career

 


There’s a lot that goes into building a music career if you’re going to make money with music. Fortunately, “do-it-yourself” doesn’t mean “do-it-alone.” In fact, there’s no longer a singular music industry, instead, there are industries around music. These industries offer solutions and expertise that, not long ago, only a music label could handle. Today, you can leverage these services and resources to offload work to a team of experts that you normally would have to do yourself. 

Friday, June 15, 2018

Independent Record Labels You Should Know


From independent icons like XL Recordings and Sub Pop to newer teams like 88 Rising and Mind of a Genius, here are some of the essential labels you should know. As always, we encourage you to do your own digging and share your own favorites with us, but as long as you discovered just one new label, artist, or piece of music that you love from this list, then we did our job.

From legendary indies to internet-based upstarts, these labels are all doing something special.

Monday, September 25, 2023

#MusicReview #Hiphop #Stream #Rnb

 


The Wrap Up Magazine is proud to present Gansta Marcus of Lima, Ohio. Not only is Gansta Marcus a artist, he is also a promoter and producer.


We invite you to stream music provided by Gansta Marcus and his production company on any digital platform you may use.


In case you don't see your music platform of choice below, then Click Here For More Services

Tuesday, February 12, 2019

Submit For Our Spotify Mixtape


The Wrap-Up Magazine and Entertainment News will be hosting their first mix-tape playlist for artist to gain more exposure. All artist are welcome to join in on this free submission. We will not be uploading songs, so artist must have their music already on Spotify.

This is a great way for artist to connect with each other while gaining more exposure to their music. Having your music in Spotify playlist is the best way to get your music out to new crowds. Playlists, can be one of the fastest ways to get your music in front of of millions of potential fans.

Spotify is a digital music service that gives you access to millions of songs. Discover and maybe even rediscover music for every moment. We encourage artist to team up to make the ultimate playlist!

Stream or follow the latest playlist released by The Wrap-Up Magazine and DJ Sippitakeover below. If you are looking to send in your music, then follow the directions below.



You are welcome to leave you music link in the comment box below, or send submissions to sippitakeover@gmail.com with music link and artwork. Good Luck!

Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Gansta Marcus Talks The End Of Cds

Gansta Marcus makes a statement on the end of cds, "I can remember a time in music history when everyone wanted their hands in the rise of platinum selling CDs, but now that digital music is released, Cds have declined in recent years making online and mobile sale more easier for music shoppers."

When asked how do he feel the future of music will be, he responded' "The industry will make it had to reach the major platform. Although the internet has made it a way to let indie artist emerge onto their own platform and reach major crowds, the industry will spend millions to put a stop to it."

"Streaming music has become very popular in todays society. With all kinds of gadgets and apps, the digital industry is leading the music revolution. With B.E.T changing its broadcast station to reality t.v., will it hurt emerging artist and the way visual videos are put into rotation?"

Friday, March 6, 2020

Inside The Mind Of The Underground King of Hip Hop (Part 1)


The underground music scene is wide open right now as the music industry is evolving into it's next phase. Every since the days of Myspace.com and Google+, ways for unsigned artist has changed dramatically.

The Wrap-Up Magazine.com conducted a interview with one of the biggest underground pr's Gansta Marcus of Lima, Ohio to hear his thoughts on how emerging artist are changing the entertainment  industry.

Wednesday, May 4, 2016

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Friday, December 15, 2017

Top Music Sites For Artists


We live in an age where this world is busy running after each and every minor thing. Gone are the days when people had to buy cassettes or CDs for their favourite songs. Every touch has become modernised, and so has the music industry

Various sites host music, and you can just have a great time pass when you’re in a mood to listen to some really good music.

Sunday, January 29, 2017

Lima's Music Industry Leader


The Wrap-Up Magazine is proud to present their artist Gansta-Marcus of Lima, Ohio as the music industry leader in the city. Will all his hard work and dedication he puts into social media, his career is still taking a rise to exposure.

Saturday, October 10, 2020

These Are The Top 5 Lima, Ohio Artist That Left The Biggest Impact In Music


These Lima, Ohio artist has stepped up to the plate and will leave there musical legacy over the city's rap culture. The Buckeye state has no shortage of celebrities, but these Top Five artist sure stood out among the rest.


Even though Eastside Po was not mentioned in the article, he is next up on the rising artist list.


Were not saying that these are the best artist from Lima, Ohio, but I am noting that these are the artist who legacy will continue on through time.


In contrast with its East Coast, West Coast and Southern counterparts, Midwest hip hop has very few constants in style or production. Midwest hip hop's first dose of national popularity came in the mid-90s with the extremely fast-paced rappers known as Bone Thugs-n-Harmony (Cleveland), Twista (Chicago), Tech N9ne (Kansas City), Atmosphere (Minneapolis), and Eminem (Detroit).


But Ohio, in general, has a rich musical history that makes it one of the most important states when it comes to the evolution of sound in various genres. Everything from shock rock and industrial metal to funk and R&B developed in the Lima, Ohio area.

Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Universal Music Group Drops Distribution Company


Universal Music Group officially dropped the name Universal Music Group Distribution (UMGD), and updated its U.S. structure. In a digital market, where applications like Spotify, Tidal, and iTunes have limited the number of hard copies purchased by consumers; it looks like Universal Music Group will be placing more interest in marketing and e-commerce operations.

Thursday, June 14, 2018

Growing Your #Spotify Presence With #Streambeet


This means that musicians need to be sure to enhance their presence on Spotify, and that’s what Streambeet is here to help you with. Their organic Spotify promotion services seek to get you organic Spotify plays, Spotify followers, grow your Spotify monthly listeners and overall organic Spotify promotion. They also help get you featured on genre-specific Spotify playlists, allowing listeners to discover your tracks amidst other similar tracks from your musical niche.

Streambeet is a cost-effective service which help artists grow their Spotify plays and Spotify followers in exchange for a very reasonable fee. They have pricing structures that differ depending on the size of promotion you desire. Their service will continue promoting you until your numbers are reached or will continually run until you acquire the amount of Spotify plays, Spotify followers or Spotify monthly listeners you paid for.

The music industry is continually changing, with CDs taking over from tapes, iTunes taking over from CDs, and now Spotify taking over from iTunes. Streaming platforms such as Spotify allow users to stream your tracks without technically owning a copy of them, making the music-listening experience more affordable, easy, and enjoyable for everyone.

Saturday, October 17, 2020

Top 5 Lima, Ohio Artist Who Made The Biggest Impact In Our Hip-hop Community


These Lima, Ohio artist has stepped up to the plate and will leave there musical legacy over the city's rap culture. The Buckeye state has no shortage of celebrities, but these Top Five artist sure stood out among the rest.


Even though Eastside Po was not mentioned in the article, he is next up on the rising artist list.

Sunday, June 12, 2016

Soundcloud Now Paying Royalties To Artist

I guess soundcloud pro will now be paying artist royalty checks for purchases and streams. SoundCloud, a popular streaming music web service with over 175 million monthly users, has reached a deal to pay royalties to thousands of independent record labels.

The ads will only be seen and heard in the US for now, on SoundCloud’s players. SoundCloud is the ubiquitous wild child of the digital music world. Soundcloud may begin to pay artists royalties, as the company moves towards monetizing it's sound empire. Currently Soundcloud closely rivals Youtube.

SoundCloud is desperately trying to go legal and pay royalties before labels pull their music from the streaming service. SoundCloud,the digital playground for many music fans and creators, says it will start paying artists and record labels for the first time.

Thursday, July 2, 2020

#Ohio #Producer Gansta Marcus Announces New #Artist Promotion @ganstamarcus


Are you a unsigned artist looking to give your music a boost? Would you like to reach a wider crowd of music lovers? Or just looking for the right person to help you start a label and get your music in online digital stores?

If any of the questions above fits your needs, then you have made it to the right place. The Lima, Ohio producer/promoter Gansta Marcus is the owner of this music blog and he has announced new marketing strategies to help unsigned artist.

By marketing your music, you are getting people to know it exists. It can be as simple as talking to people and letting them know you make songs, to bigger marketing efforts such as performing gigs, getting on TV, or letting people on social networking websites know what you're all about.

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