When you start a new blog, there’s often an automatic first post waiting there from the outset, to give you an example of what should be in the blog. Its title is ‘Hello world!’ and the idea is that this is your first big public statement to the world at large.

I’ve started blogs before, and I’ve always replaced that first post with something more applicable to the topic of the blog itself. But this time, I’m keeping the title - and here’s why.

The New Music Biz is a site to discuss the music business, obviously, and the new one at that. But this one comes with a difference. The New Music Biz is interested in things other than what the RIAA is up to, how many downloads Trent Reznor gets, and how the American or British charts are being manipulated by digital marketing methods.

Don’t get me wrong: that’s interesting stuff and I talk about it on a couple of my other blogs (New Music Strategies and Music Think Tank in particular) - but there are other people talking about that stuff already, and in fact - there’s a lot more to the contemporary music business than the popular music record industry.

There are more countries in the world, more genres of music - and more kinds of music business. The New Music Biz aims to give these often overlooked (but comparatively massive) sections of the online music environment a really good bit of representation. Or at least, we’ll make a start.

From Norway to Indonesia, showtunes to corpsecore metal, music publishing to venue management. We have over 40 writers from all corners of the globe and all ends of the music business - and we’re growing that number.

This is The New Music Biz - and it’s a lot more interesting and diverse than you might have thought. Hello world!