Browsing all posts in November, 2008.
Universal Meebo
Do you have a few different chat names? For instance, do you have an AOL name from a few years back along with your new Google g-chat name? Do you get frustrated having so many and not being able to combine friend groups? Well, the Meebo website was created to fix all of that.Meebo provides [...]
Madonna Update
I have been following the Madonna Sticky & Sweet tour through recent blogs (see blogs 1, 2, & 3) for the implications in international music tours. One key figure that was discussed at the beginning of her tour was the need to gross $4 million per show. Well, of her 28 North American dates so [...]
Warner Music Group
Warner Music Group just released 4th quarter & full year sales results (sept ’07 to sept ’08). Here are the highlights: Digital revenue grew 0.6% to $167 million from 3rd quarter ’08 However, digital revenue grew 28% when compared to 4th quarter ’07 Full year digital revenue grew to $639 million (39% increase) Digital revenue [...]
U.K. Mobile Phone Sales
The following sales number trends are pretty intriguing. Not only are cd sales plummeting, cd players are being replaced by MP3 capable mobile devices at a 5-1 rate. At least that is the rate in the United Kingdom where 32.1 million MP3 devices were sold from Sept ’07 – Sept ’08. A full 75% of [...]
Chinese Authoritarianism
This is not a big shocker, but the Chinese Government is not too thrilled about the recent Guns ‘n’ Roses album titled Chinese Democracy. The communist government has harshly attacked both the title and content of the album through the state-run newspaper, the Global Times. Talk of a vast conspiracy were echoed in the newspaper [...]
Creme de la Creme
As the music industry continues to alter and adapt, how will good music rise above the rest? At a time when anyone with Garageband can record on their home computer and post the song on the internet within minutes, how will the good music rise above the rest? In the recent past, it really came [...]
RIAA vs. the World
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has led a very public campaign against music copyright infringers. To date, the RIAA has filed over 30,000 complaints against file sharers. Many times intimidation is used to scare infringers of the prospect of a lengthy and costly trial, and to encourage quick and costly settlements. One such [...]
Short Thoughts on the Long Tail
The discussion continues over the Long Tail. Simply put, the Long Tail refers to the selling of a large number of niche products in small quantities. So, in the past, record stores would only carry a few thousand of the top-selling albums in their stores. If you wanted more obscure works, you had to go [...]
Democracy in China?
After a mere 10 years, Guns ‘n’ Roses is releasing their new album aptly titled Chinese Democracy. For a while, it seemed that the album release had about as much of a chance of being released as the Communist government of China allowing a vote to take place for their next leader. Well, the cd [...]
Exclusive Press Release
A strategic music licensing partnership has just been announced between a British independent record label named Aardvark Records and a US-based Indoor Cycling/Spinning DVD producer, Global Ride LLC. This deal will make songs from Aardvark Records artists available for use in these dvd’s for cycling and spinning classes. This is a great example of a [...]
