Browsing all posts in June, 2008.
Old Gene Simmons
Gene Simmons should apply to work at some of the record labels. His mentality fits right in. Here are some recent comments: “The record industry is dead, it’s six feet underground, and unfortunately the fans have done this.” “They’ve decided to download and file share. There is no record industry around so we’re going to [...]
Global Music Biz
PriceWaterhouseCoopers just released a report on the sales numbers for the global music business. Some are past sales numbers and some are predictions for the near future. This is a pretty fascinating report that follows how regions of the world are developing economically as well. Here are some highlights: Global spending on digital music formats [...]
Digital Collaborations
I like to track the collaborations going on in the music industry. In this time of business model upheaval, who’s dating who tends to point to future trends. Especially in the area of the major record labels dating the new kids on the block (the internet start-ups). The first collabo is between Universal and last.fm. [...]
Paying for Music
Should we pay for music? I was just reading a report about a music survey conducted in Britain. Seems as though people are willing to pay for music if the download site is known for consistent quality and if the user can own the song at the end of the day. The Brits were not [...]
Inside EMI
EMI appears set to have quite the week. Tomorrow (6/17), EMI will release the new Coldplay album, Viva la Vida. This is a pretty much guaranteed success story. The album was released in the UK last week and has already sold over 300,000 copies. And Coldplay is a band where people want to listen to [...]
Who’s that?
I had a conversation with a friend a few days ago that highlighted one of the major shifts occurring in the music industry. I have known this friend for 14 years. During this time, we have more or less had the same taste in music. We at least would know the band name of who [...]
Big Label Investment Strategies
On June 4th, I wrote about the big labels and their increasing investments in music social networking sites. It’s pretty interesting to see how the investment strategies differ. Here is some info about the strategies of Warner & Universal: Warner – sticking with large investments in lala.com and imeem.com. Lala’s investment was over $20 million. [...]
Wally World | AC/DC
A few days ago, it was announced that AC/DC would sell their next album exclusively at Wal*Mart. AC/DC will not even sell the album (nor any of their songs) on itunes. Just Wally World. This is interesting. I think it’s important to note some facts here that often get overlooked in the hype of digital [...]
Social Networking Sites & The Labels
It is quite amazing how much pull the record companies still enact over new music website start-ups. Many sites have been removed from the internet due to the lack of blessing by the labels. The latest casualty is last.fm as Warner has pulled its music from the site due to compensation rates. The companies are [...]
Album vs. Tracks
There is a great article in the NY Times today about Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails. Most of the article deals with Trent himself, and the fact that he is really on the cutting edge of musical distribution. One interesting thing about the article was Reznor discussing the iPod. On one hand, he thinks [...]
