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Seven Years Later, Sarah McLachlan Releases New Album

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For those Sarah McLachalan fans that have been listening to the same songs over and over waiting, just waiting for her to release something new, well your time has come. Come June 15th, her new album “The Laws of Illusion” will be released, just before another big event, the continuation of her famous Lilith Fair.

Sarah McLachlan, a Canadian musician, singer and songwriter, has sold over 40 million albums worldwide. McLachlan, born in 1968, took voice lessons along with classical piano and guitar growing up. Before finishing high school she was offered a recording contract with a Vancouver-based independent record label. Her parents insisted she finish high school and attend at least one year of college before signing, which she did.

McLachlan recorded her first album “Touch” in 1998 followed by “Solace” in 1991. “Solace” made her a star in Canada with singles “The Path of Thorns” and “Into The Fire”, both becoming certified double platinum. But it wasn’t until the 1993 release of “Fumbling Towards Ecstasy” that the world discovered who McLachlan was. The album scaled the charts in numerous countries. Her success was pushed even further forward with the 1997 album “Surfacing”, her best selling album to date. The album earned her two Grammy Awards and four Juno Awards. It has sold over 11 million copies worldwide.

Even with such success, McLachlan found herself frustrated over concert promoters and radio stations refusal two feature two female musicians in a row. From this stemmed the idea of “Lilith Fair”, where McLachlan booked herself and Paula Cole to appear together in Canada. Joining the women included performances by Lisa Loeb and Michelle McAdorey.

1997 proved to be a big year for McLachlan. Not only was her album “Surfacing” making it a success, Lilith Fair was garnering $16 million gross, making it the top grossing tour festival. The same year, her song “Angel”, inspired by a fatal overdose of Smashing Pumpkins touring keyboardest Jonathan Melvoin, became Billboard Charts number one song. The following year the song was featured in the film “City of Angels”. The soundtrack also remained on the Billboard’s top 40 albums.

Meanwhile Lilith Fair grew in success. Within three years it brought together over 2 million people and raised more than $7 million for charities. It also helped launch the careers of several well-known female artists. Artists known for their participation in Lilith Fair include the Indigo Girls, Sheryl Crow, Nelly Furtado, Queen Latifah, Emmylou Harris, and Christina Aguilera.The festival discontinued in 1999 but is also to be started back up this year.

McLachlan released “Mirrorball” in 1999. She recorded “When She Loved Me” for the Toy Story 2 soundtrack, a son that was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song. In 2001 she provided background vocals, guitar and piano on the closing track “Love Is” for Stevie Nicks’ solo album “Trouble In Shangri-La”

It wouldn’t be until 2003 that she would release another album, “Afterglow” as she spent time with her husband and new family. From the album came singles “Fallen”, “Stupid” and “World on Fire” that pushed the album into selling over 2,500,000 units in the U.S. alone. The album went two times platinum and worldwide sold more than 5 million copies.

What will 2010 bring for Sarah McLachlan. With the release of her new album and the start up of Lilith Fair, once again, it could be the beginning of another successful decade.

Jeff Bachmeier is owner of 977music.com, an online music and online radio station network providing live streaming Internet Radio channels with music from the 50’s thru Today. Users can also choose to create their own customized on demand playlist through their own social media profile. For more information please visit http://www.977music.com.

Current Events about Internet Radio

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In 1998, President Bill Clinton passed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, DMCA, was signed into law. It was signed to keep up with the changes of digital media innovations, and it protects copyrighted material that is accessible on the Internet. How does this law affect Internet radio? It limits radio stations online from copyright infringement and streaming music without paying royalties and licensing fees. This law created a lot of controversy between traditional radio station and radio stations on the Internet. In recent news, the controversy is shedding light again in Congress.

President Obama is now discussing royalty laws with Congress about traditional radio stations. In the current DMCA law, only radio online has to pay a royalty to performers in addition to the songwriter. They have to pay publishing and performance royalties. Currently, traditional radio stations only pay the publishing royalty which is paid to the songwriter and not the singer. Recent headlines in the news now report that the Obama administration is endorsing that radio stations must now pay performance royalties as well.

Record labels and recording artists miss out on money and recognition that is respectably theirs. Internet radio stations and other countries in the world pay the royalties to performers for their hard work to create amazing music and performances. Traditional radio stations in the United States are one of the only institutions that do not pay a royalty to the performer. The DMCA is unfair, and recording artists feel as if they are not being protected under the current copyright law.

Once again there is controversy between broadcasters, radio stations, and artists. A lot of famous musicians whose music is played on Internet Radio and traditional radio have been to Capitol Hill to support the passing of new copyright laws for traditional radio. Broadcasters believe that by passing the new royalty law jobs will be lost and record labels outside of the United States will gain high profits. The National Broadcasters Association believes they should not have to pay the royalty that Internet radio pays because by playing a band’s music they are encouraging listeners to buy their albums.

It is still unclear whether or not this issue will be brought into legislation this year or not. The Obama administration is simply stating that they endorse the performance royalties. Radio stations on the Internet and traditional radio stations play the same music and it is unfair that the Internet has to pay an additional fee. There should be fairness across the board and musicians should be able to collect for their talents.

About the Author: Jeff Bachmeier is owner of 977music.com, an online music and online radio station network providing live streaming Internet Radio channels with music from the 50’s thru Today. Users can also choose to create their own customized on demand playlist through their own social media profile. For more information please visit http://www.977music.com.

How the DMCA affects Internet Radio

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The DMCA, or Digital Millennium Copyright Act, was signed into law by President Bill Clinton on October 28, 1998. It is an American law that protects copyrights over the Internet. The radio industry has to pay a musician or band royalties when they play their music on their stations. This caused a big stir in the industry because traditional and online radio programs were being charged differently as to what royalties they had to pay.

One of the reasons the DMCA was signed into law was due to the fact that the Internet had largely influenced the music industry, and in some ways hindered it. Record sales for bands and musicians decreased by large amounts because people were downloading music off the Internet for free. A lot of down loaders were illegally file sharing, so there was not a need to go out and buy CDs anymore. Music sites online and radio programs could stream music for free.

Because of the growing popularity in the late 1990s, there was a lot of media attention and investing going on in the music industry online. Music companies and radio programs were making a lot of money online and musicians were making less. Stocks for certain online radio sites were doubling in value. Bands and musicians were really suffering during this time because most of their revenue was through record sales, especially if they were not touring.

One of the controversies of the DMCA was the unfairness of who had to pay what royalties. One way it affected Internet Radio was that they had to pay a royalty that traditional radio stations did not have too. Internet radio programs have to pay performance royalties and publishing royalties. The rates of the loyalties are very expensive and affected smaller, independently owned online radio sites. Big corporations could make the payment easily, but other companies were in danger of going out of business.

Because of the hard to pay royalties, music websites that streamed music for their listeners banded together to oppose the high fee. They had a silent protest and did not stream any music for an entire day. Due to the persistence of Internet radio stations, the law was revised. The law now states that royalties are now based on the revenue of the Internet station and there would not be a flat fee for royalties.

Even after the DMCA was passed, radio stations online have continued to thrive and grow their business. Radio programs on the Internet cater to a lot of different groups of people. You can listen to music from around the globe and find genre specific stations.

About the Author: Jeff Bachmeier is owner of 977music.com, an online music and online radio station network providing live streaming Internet Radio channels with music from the 50’s thru Today. Users can also choose to create their own customized on demand playlist through their own social media profile. For more information please visit http://www.977music.com.

 
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