Browsing all posts in August, 2008.
Bling Bling
Forbes released their list of Hip-Hop’s 20 biggest earners over the past year. The obvious fact here is that the big earners are not earning their money from music. Music is the means to either have the capital or reputation to diversify into other endeavors. Take 50 Cent, who brought in a mere $150 million. [...]
U2 on YouTube
This is a pretty funny story. U2’s lead singer Bono mistakenly took part in the leak of his upcoming album. While vacationing in his villa in the south of France, Bono was blasting his new record and decided to let the cool breeze in through the windows during the playback. Well, unbeknownst to Bono, a [...]
Korn Head
I just finished Brian ‘Head’ Welch’s recent book “Save Me From Myself.” ‘Head’ is the former lead guitarist of the heavy metal band Korn and this book is about “How I found God, quit Korn, kicked drugs, and lived to tell my story.” I wanted to comment a bit on the book and about my [...]
Communist Music
The U.S. blockade policy towards Cuba is about to be put to the test. And not from cuban cigars or good rum, but from music. Puerto Rico has been named a guest territory for the Cubadisco Music Fair in Havana. The music fair is to take place in May of 2009. The only problems is [...]
We7 & the Labels
We7 (we7.com) just signed a deal with Warner Music to be able to stream Warner’s entire catalog on their site. We7 is a free service that plays ad-supported streaming music. Ads are targeted based upon location, age, & gender. All you do is type in the artist, album, or track you would like to hear [...]
NBC’s Crusade
I was busy during the opening ceremonies of the olypmics and wanted to try to catch the show I heard so much about. So I went to YouTube and could not find the opening ceremonies. That is because NBC had them all removed. As of this past Tuesday, the opening ceremonies had already been downloaded [...]
Stinging Aftershave
In the Police’s last show in New York last week, Sting pulled a very weird one. Before the last song of their last show of their last tour ever, Sting ran offstage to be shaved using a new shaving cream. So it turned out to be a publicity stunt for this new shaving cream. Maybe [...]
Warner Music Group
Warner Music posted another loss. I’m sorry, I know this is not very original. A record company has gone another quarter at a loss. If you scroll down and read the blog about Live Nation, you will read about someone out there making money. Here are some of Warner’s loss highlights: Warner Music lost $9 [...]
Live Nation’s Numbers
Live Nation has released their second quarter sales figures and they are quite impressive. This is a company who just within this past quarter had a big executive leadership shake-up and many questions as to the validity of their business model. Well, let’s let these numbers speak for themselves: – Revenues – $1.16 billion – [...]
African MTV Music Awards
The world will see the first African continent MTV Music Awards live from the Velodrome (see photo) in Abuja, Nigeria on November 22, 2008. This will be a unprecedented chance for a number of African artists to have a global platform to promote their music. Both African and International artists will take part in the [...]
