“But wait: wouldn’t kids be the most progressive media consumers, the ones most comfortable with digital intangibility and conditional ownership? Guess not: according to a study shared by NPD Group, kids between the ages of 2 and 14 in the US still overwhelmingly purchase physical goods.”
“In the old days, it was much easier for pop stars to keep up with how much they were getting paid. Somebody would buy a CD at a Tower Records for $15 and a few dollars would appear months later on the star’s royalty sheet. Then iTunes took over the record business, and it was even easier (if not more profitable) – every time somebody bought a 99-cent track, a few pennies went into the artist’s bank account.”
“With the announcement of Leap Wireless’ Muve Music for Android and MetroPCS’ partnership with Rhapsody and following the release of U.S. release of Spotify and Apple’s iCloud, the mobile music arena has become saturated with a variety of music apps. There are apps to play existing music, apps to stream personalized radio, apps to identify songs, apps to play commercial radio and apps for everything in between.”
“The reality is that it was too much bother and too expensive to try and clear a sample of an obscure and hard to find piece of music or of a snippet of a big successful tune when you knew that your record was going to sell just a few thousand copies – i.e. we felt at the time that the risk was well worth it. And hundreds of thousands of records have been released with uncleared samples in them.”
“While digital music may be the more environmentally benign choice over CDs – which are made primarily with aluminum and petroleum-based plastics – it is not quite as green as many people think, says Casey Harrell, a San Francisco-based IT analyst at Greenpeace International. The same goes for that other popular download: movies, which are increasingly becoming available in digital format through video streaming services such as Netflix.”
“The paint is still drying on ‘Facebook Music,’ but we’re already seeing a number of serious problems. That includes a cobbled-together and disjointed group of partners, ‘over-sharing’ bugs, and a rather slapped-together Spotify integration.”
“1. The Definition of Publicity.
First, we are going to start out with the very basics – some definitions of what publicity is exactly, according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
Publicity – “An act or device designed to attract public interest; specifically: information with news value issued as a means of gaining public attention or support. Also: The dissemination of information or promotional material.””
“Community building doesn’t only happen on Facebook, and a new indie music discovery site founded by Bill Armstrong of Side One Dummy hopes to build a community of indie music fans more tied to the creators than to Mark Zuckerberg. To help make that happen, Armstrong assembled a unique partnership of 30 top independent music labels to launch TheNewRecord.com.”
“Members of the music business are weighing in on the loss of a giant, with the passing of STEVE JOBS on WEDNESDAY (NET NEWS 10/5). Many of the products APPLE released during his tenure as CEO directly impacted the music business.”
“Napster co-founder Sean Parker is infamous for revolutionizing the music industry in the late 1990s with the P2P file sharing service. Since then, the American businessman has helped build Causes and The Founders Fund, worked as Facebook’s president (he owns 4 percent of the company) as well as Plaxo’s president, and is now a major investor ($30 million) of Spotify. The fact that both Napster and Spotify are both music services is no coincidence: Forbes has excellent article summarizing Parker’s hope to push Spotify into becoming the next Napster.”
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