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Warner Nashville Tries Cutting the Album in Half
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HypeBot
Sales of full albums are falling faster than an Olympic ski racer on an ice covered slope. And then time between releases can leave too-long gaps in the marketing cycle.
Warner's Nashville is looking for an answer by dividing Blake Shelton's “Hillbilly Bone" as a “Six Pak," a 6 song album of new material to be released on March 2 followed by another six-song release in August. Pricing, which could be the key to the experiment's success, is not yet ...
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Same as It Ever Was: Buddy Holly Tries to Reason with His Label Boss
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HypeBot
The secret recordings.
Disagreements between artist and labels have been happening since the invention of the recorded disc. Way back in 1956, Buddy Holly recorded several songs in Nashville including “That'll Be The Day". But but producer Owen Bradley reportedly hated rock n' roll, and the results were less than exciting.
Later Holly re-recorded “That'll Be The Day" at a different studio with his own arrangement. But...
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John Lennon Museum to Close
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All About Jazz
The world's only authorised John Lennon Museum, on the outskirts of Tokyo, will close its doors in September when a deal with his widow Yoko Ono ends, the operator said Thursday.
The museum dedicated to the former Beatle opened in Saitama north of Tokyo in 2000 on the 60th anniversary of Lennon's birth and displays about 130 items, including guitars, stage costumes and hand-written lyrics.
After 10 years here, John's spirit is now moving on -- looking onward to the ...
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R & B Singer Jill Scott Sued by Record Label
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All About Jazz
R&B superstar Jill Scott was sued this morning by her longtime record label, which is accusing the multi-platinum songstress of skipping out halfway through a six-album contract and potentially owing millions of dollars in damages. The lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court by L.A.-based Hidden Beach Records, claims that the label and its founder, Steve McKeever, helped launch Scott's career and nurtured her into a Grammy-winning singer-songwriter but was unceremoniously dumped in October after a 10-plus year relationship. Hidden ...
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Terry McBride and the Emotional Power of Music
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Nettwerk Music Group CEO Terry McBride has always been a thinker as we as a successful music entrepreneur. This year his main project is a rejuvenated Lilith Fair tour that will certainly bring back wonderful memories for many. In this speech at TEDx in Vancouver, Terry explores the emotional power of music and its ability to bookmark moments in our lives that we can return to again and again.
Understanding the power of those moments has sustained substantial careers for ...
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Senator al Franken Comes Out Swinging Against Comcast - NBC Deal
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Michael Ricci
Doesn't look like comedian-turned-senator Al Franken is planning a return to NBC's “Saturday Night Live" anytime soon.
In his opening remarks about the proposed Comcast - NBC deal at a hearing held by the Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights, Franken (D-Minn.) ripped into the deal and the risks it could present to not only consumers but media competition as well.
Franken, who was a regular on NBC's “Saturday Night Live" for years and also had a ...
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John Topper: 10 Questions from My 8 Year Old
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Guest Post: John Topper is a successful manager (moe and Cornmeal) and music industry entrepreneur. Occasionally he shares his wit and wisdom with the rest of us. 10 questions my 8 year old daughter will ask me by the time she gets to college.1. What is a record label?
2. Why did people carry around such big cell phones?
3. Did the radio ever play music?
4. How come Live Nation is building condos where all the amphitheaters used to ...
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Who Really Benefits from Intellectual Property Law? And Who Should?
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Michael Ricci
Economic policy bloggers, Matt Yglesias, started a kerfuffle the other day with a frighteningly commonplace point about the vain fight of creative producers against free content online, especially vis-a-vis music file-trading. In short, he proposed that in a perfect marketplace for music.
The price of a song ought to be equal to the marginal cost of distributing a new copy of a song. Which is to say that the marginal cost ought to be $0.
In a followup post on ...
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