Country veteran Garth Brooks has never been afraid to plough his own furrow in digital music, from launching his own downloads store to making his catalogue exclusive to Amazon Music for streaming. Now […]
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Garth Brooks concert to be shown at 300+ drive-in cinemas
We’ve seen some early experiments in the US around putting on music concerts in drive-in cinemas (movie theaters) to keep within social distancing rules. What’s better than playing a single […]
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Garth Brooks to get his own tile in Words With Friends 2
Well, the partnership is more than just a tile, but given Garth Brooks’ status as an “avid Words With Friends player” we suspect he’s pretty proud of that achievement. The […]
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Today’s positive coronavirus-related industry news (2 April)
A collective of music industry bodies in the US has come together to create the Music Covid Relief website, providing information for music professionals to receive benefits (both individual and for small […]
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Garth Brooks talks Spotify, Apple Music and Amazon
Country veteran Garth Brooks may have an exclusive deal with Amazon, but during his appearance at SXSW last week he had warm words for Spotify CEO Daniel Ek, if slightly cooler views on Apple Music.
“Spotify came in, Daniel Ek came down to sit with me, sweet man, I love Daniel, great guy. I think he gets a lot of crap. His parents were both street musicians – he’s a good guy who understands music, and I think he wants to help and believes 100% he’s helping,” said Brooks, according to Billboard’s report on his keynote.
“Apple’s a little different story. They came in with their own set of rules, and if you’re already established, you have to change to get to them. I’m never going to change to fit their rules. Nice guys, we have respect for each other, we’re just never going to work together.”
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Garth Brooks folds his Ghost Tunes into Amazon
Just over two years since launching, country musician Garth Brooks’ Ghost Tunes download store is passing into the afterlife.
Well, shutting down: Billboard reports that an email sent to customers cites a “new partnership with Amazon” as reason for them to transfer their purchases to Amazon’s cloud service, and check out its Amazon Music Unlimited streaming service.
Ghost Tunes originally launched in November 2014 alongside Brooks’ comeback album ‘Man Against Machine’, complete with deals to sell music from all three major labels as well as various independents, and the promise of an 80% revenue share for rightsholders rather than the industry-standard 70%.
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Garth Brooks hails Amazon’s ‘great money’ and short terms
Country musician Garth Brooks has been talking about his evolving digital strategy, including his recent exclusive streaming deal with Amazon. “Out of the blue, here comes Amazon looking to start […]
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Garth Brooks signs exclusively (and underwhelmingly) with Amazon
Of all the streaming dissenters, Garth Brooks was by some considerable distance the biggest left out there. Around him, others slowly capitulated in recent years – like Metallica, Led Zeppelin […]
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Garth Brooks’ Ghost Tunes launches fully
The new Garth Brooks album came out this week, along with his inventive $29.99 ‘all my back catalogue’ bundle, which was announced a few weeks ago. But Billboard has some […]
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Garth Brooks’ ‘Digital Bundle’ sells his entire catalogue for $29.99
Earlier this year, Garth Brooks announced plans to finally offer his back catalogue for sale digitally, promising that it would be available “at a stupid price” (Bulletin, 11-Jul-14). Now we […]
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Jason Aldean is US country’s most digitally successful male act
The RIAA has revealed that Jason Aldean is country music’s most successful digital male act to date – with 21.5m downloads and on-demand streams. How that total is split between […]
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Garth Brooks goes digital… but only on his own site
One of the music industry’s most famous digital holdouts is finally making his catalogue available online, but Garth Brooks won’t be doing it with traditional download stores. In three days’ […]