wax&wires tv – Episode 007: Should You Make Music You Love, Or Music You’re Good At?
What is it that permits some artists to crank out 5 or 6 successful albums, while other artists are relegated to the role of the one hit wonder?
Album Sales Down Again – Solution: More Celebrity Deaths
The news on album sales hasn’t changed much over the past decade or so… you could sum it all up in one word, DOWN. Interestingly enough, we saw a bit of slowing to the downturn this past quarter, but don’t count on it for the future.
The Album Is Dead, Long Live the App
There has been no shortage of news with regards to the future of the album here. How can artists sell more than just singles now that our culture seems to be so quick to acquire and discard whatever music is “hot right now?” Perhaps the answer is in the App Store.
wax&wires tv – Episode 003
EPISODE 3
In this episode:
- Skunks
- Royalties, Pandora and the New Deal
- Spotify U.S.A! U.S.A! U.S.A!
- EMI in the troubles
- The Bird And The Bee
- Promoting your band (get off the internet!)
VIDEO: “Why Radio & Music Industry Sucks Nowadays”
I snagged this video from Kyle Bylin. There are some very interesting points made in it, and a fair amount of animosity to boot.
Before The Music Dies – Watch The Full Documentary
Check out the full feature of the music documentary exploring why only a handful of companies control the majority of music played on the radio and held in retail stores.
RockBand Surpasses 40M Songs & $1B in Sales
Yes, that’s billion with a B, and only in North America in just 15 months. What does that mean for your music?
How To Kill The Music Industry
Jens Roland just wrote a guest article over at ToreentFreak on how file sharing is not the sole culprit in the demise of the music industry: During The Pirate Bay trial, the music industry placed the blame for the decline in their revenues squarely on the shoulders of file-sharers. Their logic is clearly flawed, but [...]
Steve Bowman On Record Labels
Steve Bowman (stevethedrummer.com)Steve Bowman, the acclaimed drummer of Counting Crows and Third Eye Blind, gives us an insider’s perspective on record labels. He breaks down bands’ label options into three categories, and breaks the posts up the same way: Part 1 – The Majors Part 2 – The Independents Part 3 – Creating Your Own [...]
Warner Orders YouTube to Pull Videos
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Contract negotiations between Warner Music Group and YouTube broke down last week prompting Warner to order the removal of all WMG content from YouTube. The order pertains not only to artists currently on Warner Music’s major labels, but also extends to all songs published on Warner/Chappell music.
Warner was the first major media company to negotiate a contract with YouTube back in 2006. Warner, along with Universal Music Group and Sony Music, took stakes in YouTube back in that same year as part of contract negotiation deals, and profited when Google purchased YouTube for $1.65 billion shortly thereafter. Warner feels that their 2006 contract brought legitimacy to YouTube, strongly contributing to the Google acquisition.
YouTube currently pays WMG on a per-play basis…
Music Industry Should Embrace Illegal File Sharing
It doesn’t look like illegal file sharing is going anywhere, so what should the new music distribution model look like? Here are a few lessons learned from Radiohead’s “pay what you want” experiment with In Rainbows.
