Browsing all posts in June, 2008.

Van Halen’s Big Fat Money

I have to write about one of my favorite bands of all time. Van Halen. I play guitar because of Eddie. I’ve seen Van Halen in concert more times than any other band. In Van Halen’s recent 74 stop tour, they had revenues of $93 million. The music industry is most certainly not dead. I [...]

Musical Youth in Asia

It’s quite interesting how time changes things. Just 40 years ago, China was in the midst of its disastrous Cultural Revolution. Here are the government’s own words for this time:“At present, our objective is to struggle against and crush those persons in authority who are taking the capitalist road, to criticize and repudiate the reactionary [...]

Madonna & Peru

I am very interested in music tours going on internationally. It is part of what I would like to do as a career by helping bands develop strategies for entering new markets. With that in mind, I found it interesting to read about Madonna skipping Peru for her tour. From what I’ve read, it comes [...]

Big Label Investment in Start-ups

This is in continuation of a blog from just a few days where I talked about the big labels being too big to really pursue the opportunities and new ideas in the changing marketplace. Instead, many start-ups are being purchased by the big labels as the strategy to develop new business models. Another example comes [...]

Global Summer ’08 Concerts

My future career goal is to help bands develop strategies for entering new markets through sales & tours. In that light, I am very interested in international summer tours. Here is interesting news about three such countries: JordanJordan will be hosting a month-long music festival this summer at Amman Petra and on the Dead Sea. [...]

Japanese 1Q Music Sales

I am interested in following mobile & pc-based digital music sales in Japan. The market is so extraordinary in that mobile sales make up a larger % of sales than digital sales. Here are some other interesting facts from the first quarter of this year: – an over rise of 6% in digital sales to [...]

Democratization of Taste

I have written often about the arbiters of taste. In the past, they have been our radio stations and record labels. Of the millions of artists, these bourgeoisie chose the bands we know so well. So how will this change in the digital era? We are already seeing this happen on websites that allow users [...]

iPod to Computer?

Here is an interesting shift in the use of digital music players. In a strategic partnership between EMI & UK-based MediAnywhere, music kiosks are placed in locations such as airports, train stations, and bus stations. These kiosks offer over 25,000 DRM-free downloads. DRM means Digital Rights Management and it is what keeps you from being [...]