United Helps James Taylor Reach The Top; X Marks the Spot for BBC

Today's Top Story - 07.08.15 United Helps James Taylor Reach The Top Hollywood, CA (July 8, 2015)—James Taylor's Before This World, his first album to hit #1 on the Billboard 200, included work at United Recording in Hollywood. Read More » Today's News X Marks the Spot for BBC » Carr Radio Doc Wins Award » Summer NAMM Talks Saving RCA Studio A » Enco Streamlines RadiOhio » Today's Featured Blog The Care and Feeding of Songwriters: Why "Art for Art's Sake" Could Have An Unfortunate Future by Strother Bullins In a recent Decibel Geek podcast, superstar pop songwriter Desmond Child (whose songs are on well over 300 million albums sold) shared some stats that echo sentiments bouncing around our industry as of late: Sustainable income as a professional songwriter is disturbingly endangered. "Jon, Richie and I get six million streams on Pandora every quarter, as an average, of 'Livin' On A Prayer,' just the one song," offers Child of his co-creation with Bon Jovi. "So just imagine all the other streams we're getting. Yeah, but we got a big check for $110 [for the song last quarter] to split amongst the three of us and our publishers. Yeah. The streaming thing is a beat and we have to switch that...the record companies get 96 percent of the money and we get 4 percent because they got in there and made deals and bought into these companies. Frankly, we got dicked—all the songwriters. We've got to turn that around." Read More » Quote of the Week "We have a different philosophy of how we treat bands. Most shows have one monitor console and they mix from wherever that is. We tried to make this show as artist-friendly as possible, so the guest band monitor console is where it should normally be—next to the band. We also have a monitor console underneath the stage that is for The Roots, so Dan Horton, the monitor engineer, spends most of the show down there, and changes positions to the musical guest console as needed—which is unheard of with most shows."—Keith McPhee, Tonight Show music supervisor/Roots production manager. From the latest issue of Pro Sound News - Click here to read the full article!

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