Fast Company Names 10 Most Innovative Music Companies of 2010
I found this list on hypebot.com and it put me on to a few different companies that I wasn’t aware of. Of course you’ve got Spotify topping the list, the music industry’s “Savior” supposedly, but I’m still skeptical to how this company will survive or even pay artists a substantial royalty instead of .44 cents per track. Thanks to T-Pain for commercializing auto-tune, Antares Audio Technologies is rolling in the dough. I was unaware of the things Jack White was doing with Third Man Records, looks like he’s taking the DIY business model to new heights. I’m still to cheap to buy Beats by Dr. Dre, but those headphones are official. I don’t blame him for not putting out Detox, why sell a $15 CD, when your $300 headphones are flying off the shelves. Electronic Daisy sounds like something I wanna check out in the near future, I can’t even imagine how nuts a festival like that would be. But check out the list, what other companies do you think should have made it?
1. Spotify – North America is still waiting.
2. Apple Corps – The Beatles, not Steve Jobs.
3. Man Made Music – Joel Beckerman connecting sounds with brands.
4. Vevo – Fast Company says, “Vevo is on its way to becoming the Hulu of music videos.”
5. Antares Audio Technologies – The Auto-Tune folks.
6. Third Man Records – The Jack White empire.
7. Beats by Dr. Dre – The partnership between Monster, Interscope Geffen A&M Records chairman Jimmy Iovine, and Dr. Dre made giant studio-quality headphones a fashion accessory.
8. Ticketfly – The concert ticket service uses software pioneered in the hedge-fund industry to let groups of friends buy tickets together.
9. Insomniac Productions – Electric Daisy Carnival annual electronica festival in L.A. that grew to 135,000 in 2009.
10. Playdar – This open-source app looks for tracks on the Web and the users hard drives and pulls them together in a single jukebox.