Avicii in South Africa!



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Tim Berling known by stage names Avicii,Tim Berg and Tom Hangs is a world renowned Swedish Deejay,Re mixer and record producer of House,Progressive House and Electro house,born  on the 8th of September 1989 and has seen rise to fame than most of the Deejays he is ranked with in the world. In 2011 Avicii was ranked number 6 of the the top hundred Deejays in  the World the ranking was given by DJ Magazine which rate deejays every year buy the amount of work they have done they Tours, Album Sales, Gigs and Music Downloads and after all those results are summed up you get the ranks for that year. The young Swedish man emerged in the music industry at the age of 18 doing remixes and producing with "Lazy Lace" being his first break into fame, Now turning 23 now already ranked no.6 Deejay is a milestone in the Deejay world and he has done this all in 4 years he outranks some of his influences in house music such as Swedish House Mafia which is 10th and the group consists of influential house heads Sebastian Ingrosso,Axewell and Steve Angello also other major influence he out ranks is Daft Punk the Hit makers of "One More Time" and "Harder,Better,Faster,Stronger" Daft Punk Being ranked no.28.

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Tim Berg has worked with well known international deejays/producers such as Armin van Buuren who is the former number one deejay ranking number 2 now knocked down by David Guetta who is the current number one in the DJ Magazine list and Tim Berg  and David Guetta have worked allot together popular work being  "Sunshine" released 2011 which got the two deejays a Grammy nomination, Singles by Tim Berg which have gotten him international recognition and the wide fan base he has now are singles such as "Bromance/Seek Bromance" released 2010 and hit single "Levels" which contains a vocal sample from the 1962 gospel-inspired "Somethings Got a Hold on Me" by Etta James and the hit has been sampled by by Flo Rida and remixed by three time Grammy winner Skrillex.



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Avicii South African Tour:

Starts of in Durban:Wave house 30/03/12;

Johannesburg's:Wild Waters Complex 31/03/12 ending of in Capetown: Thunder City also on the 31st with Avicii ending of with the midnight set. Avicii tickets sold out in hours and have been sent out in batches  at certain time and places still managing to sell out in a day. Goes to show that this young man is definitely worth your money even though he is sold out many are going to the venues where he will be deejaying at hoping they will buy tickets from the people who have extras and maybe not interested in going to the event anymore. And Avicii being on of the biggest deejays to come this year shows South African music industry is getting recognised meaning we might have more international guest like last Year we international deejays and producers Deadmau5 and Gregor Salto which also marked a milestone for the South African Music and Media industry.

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Support Originality Not Piracy

To continue from my previous blog

RISA has an Anti-Piracy Unit  which is tasked with tackling the piracy issue in South Africa. Do you really want to be a thief? stealing from your favourite artists? For with piracy that's what you do every time you download music illegally or purchase fake Cd's/live musical DVDs are words always enforced by the anti piracy unit. Support Risa's Anti-Piracy Unit (RAPU) is made up of extensively and stringently trained ex-Police officials from the Commercial Crime, Organised Crime, Narcotics, Murder & Robbery and Legal Services Units of the South African Police Service (SAPS) to help fight this crime for every time you support pirated music more artists don't produce music, Rather get music online you pay either for an individual song that you like or your artists full albums and sites that make such possible are places like Itunes by Apple and Afrodesiamp3.com where you can listen to proudly South African music such as House and Kwaito other alternatives such as listening to music online its free and with that you help your favourite get hits and promote they albums or mix tapes whilst your enjoy the music you know and love.These are some of your favourite artists who are against piracy

• "I support the efforts of the anti-piracy unit of RiSA." Enrique Iglesias
• "Support local music legally." Pro
• "Niks 'Beat' die original nie!" Pieter Koen

http://www.we-support-local-music.com/

So please support your local artists and international artists proudly buy buying originals so they can keep bringing you the music you want piracy only increases black market wealth and decreases artists creativity to work knowing no income is going to come.It discourages investment in South Africa if a company's intellectual property rights are not protected; The artists receive no reward for their creativity and are not able to make a living.

Would you like to put in hard work and have it stolen just to be sold to the next guy for cheaper and you are given no credit so dont Support Piracy!

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Music Piracy Part Of Organised Crime?

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Music piracy is a crime that is done unknowingly done by many I have also been part of this "organised crime". What is music piracy? The term piracy is generally used to describe the deliberate infringement of copyright on a commercial scale. In relation to the music industry it refers to unauthorised copying of music there are Four main categories of Music Piracy are

1)Simple Piracy: The unauthorised duplication of an original recording for a commercial gain without the consent rights of the owner. Pirated copies in this category are usually much cheaper than the original product.

2) Counterfeits: An original recording is copied and packed to resemble the original as closely as possible. The original producer's trademarks and logos are reproduced in order to mislead the consumer into believing that they are buying an original product.

3) bootlegs: This is the unauthorised recording of a live broadcast performance. The recording is then duplicated and sold without the permission of the composer, artist or recording company.

4)Internet Piracy: The music is compressed, posted and transmitted globally via the Internet without the authorisation or payments of any royalties to those who invested in the creation of the project.

In South Africa is becoming a main issue also for now with piracy going up artists are losing allot of money due to piracy according to Risa (Recording Industry of South Africa and http://www.stoppiracy.org.za/musicpiracy/ "Artists and the record companies who support them loose an estimated R500 million each year to piracy. Shwi, Lucky Dube, Yvonne Chaka Chaka, Steve Hofmeyr,and the late Brenda Fassie are some of the most pirated artists in South Africa. Music piracy is one of the main reasons why young and upcoming local artists don't make it as artists in South Africa.

The issue will be continued on my next blog next week Thursday since 21Wednesday 2012 is a public holiday.

Launch Blog:Marketing in the Music Indusrty

To all music enthusiast and listeners that are interested in music in anyway wheter it is producing music,singing,write and simply just listening to music this blog will be for you.This is a launch blog of weekly blog that will be published every Wednesday of the week, diffrent topics will be discussed every week this launch blog will be on the Markerting and Adverstisng in the music industry after that the blogs will be on diffrent topics such as Piracy, Music influence, Free doawloads, Leaking of music, Music role models and so on.



Taken from http://lovecohen.com/news/the-overall-picture-of-music-marketing/



Marketing in the music: marketing music is getting music of an artist,producer out there to be known by public, getting radio airplay, exposure.

Music marketing is a resource which can help music artist to sell more music, get more people to their shows and make more money in the music business through download sales and ringtone sales. But still you get artists with good music and image but they are unknown to the public is it because of bad marketing from there record label? Is it the wrong marketing stragety? or the marketing departments fault? In South Africa there are very well known artists such as The Parlatones, Freshly Ground and Deejay Black Cofee to name a few these artists are well known internationally and why is that do they have good marketing stragety teams? Artists such as Deejay Cleo, Mandoza, Zahara are good artsists localy so what are they lacking for them to be internationally well known acts? For marketing is a process that can be learnt by anyone there are online cousres for music marketing such as http://www.musicmarketing.com/davidhooper.html that has a Music Marketing Course 101 that is availabel for anyone or is it the lack of  knowledge about such things? The South African music group Die Antwoord is big overseas than it did here in South Africa the group hashad sold out Tours,Album Sales sky rocket when signing to Interscope records,which shows that music  marketing teams in South Africa needs to see what they are doing  wrong and work on it to improve the South African music market and see marketing as a tool of importance and also view the influence of social media and what it can do as a marketing tool, as said by David Hooper "Music marketing is you living your music by doing whatever you do"