Browsing all posts in November, 2008.

Facebook’s Foray

The NY Post reported that Facebook may be looking into making a stronger presence in the digital music business. Just recently, MySpace improved their presence with MySpace Music. They did this by releasing equity in MySpace Music to the major labels in exchange for the licenses to the songs. Should Facebook make a stronger push, [...]

Live Nation Equity

We have all been surprised by the recent deals signed between artists and Live Nation. Live Nation would sign these artists for multi-year deals and then take a chunk of revenue from a number of different aspects of the artists’ career. So, for instance, Jay-Z signed a huge deal, but will also provide revenues from [...]

Radiohead Experiment

Radiohead experimented last year with a ‘name-your-price’ release of their album. Although the final revenues were not released, Radiohead just confirmed a movement of more than 3 million albums from their experiment. This includes formats such as downloads from various retailers and physical product sold online and through stores. Of these 3 million + copies [...]

EMI Restructuring

EMI, the major record label in last place in terms of market share out of the 4 major labels, has a restructuring plan to try to improve their business. Remember, EMI is the company that has Coldplay as an artist. They also have a very successful music publishing side of the business. But, they have [...]

Mobile Devices

I blog about the following topic a lot because I think it is very important for musicians to keep in mind. The developing world is adopting mobile technology at an astounding rate. Many people in developing countries will access the internet for the first time on a screen smaller than your hand. Information will be [...]

Show me the Money

At a time when the economy is tanking, most radio stocks are under $1, and record companies’ revenues are declining rapidly, it is quite newsworthy when some company related to the music industry shows strong financial gains. Enter – Live Nation. So far, it appears that Live Nation has hit upon a business plan that [...]

Pirates

Here is a potentially game-changing technology. A company called Auditude has developed a patented technology that indexes videos across the web and finds the ones that are copyright-infringing. It then places an advertisement on the advertisement so that the content provider and owner can actually make money when someone uses their material without permission. Think [...]

CD Sales

It’s nothing new to say that cd sales are plummeting. A more interesting note though, is that retailers are beginning to assist this downfall. Wal*Mart just announced that it will begin rapidly decreasing shelf space for cd’s. They will replace the space with higher margin electronics items. Wal*Mart will begin concentrating on obtaining exclusive rights [...]

Academy Live

While Live Nation is sweeping the USA with live concerts, they have also made serious inroads overseas. Their partner in the United Kingdom, Academy Music Group, has 11 facilities throughout the country. Live Nation is a majority stakeholder in Academy. And now there is a third company in the mix of partners, O2, the leading [...]

iLike Exclusive Content

It seems as though a new music website is being launched every day each offering a little different product. So for both new and established sites, there is a daily struggle to remain relevant and on top of things. One way to keep up is to be known as a site with exclusive content. The [...]