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Study Suggest That You Need Label Help to Cross Music's "Obscurity Line"
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HypeBot
"In 2008 there were 1500 releases that sold over 10,000 album units. Out of that there were only 227 of them that were artists that had broken 10,000 for the first time. So in the whole year only 227 of the artists were artists that had broken what we call the “obscurity line." When you sell 10,000 albums, you're no longer an obscure artist; people know about you. You may not be a star yet, but you're in ...
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Brian Eno: "Recorded Music Equals Whale Blubber"
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HypeBot
"I think records were just a little bubble through time and those who made a living from them for a while were lucky. There is no reason why anyone should have made so much money from selling records except that everything was right for this period of time..."
“It was a bit like if you had a source of whale blubber in the 1840s and it could be used as fuel. Before gas came along, if you traded in whale ...
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Selling Sex: The "Other" Shiny Plastic Disc Business
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Kyle Bylin, Associate Editor
These days, it's becoming clearer that the record industry's plight in the digital age hasn't happened in a vacuum - that, in all actuality, its troubles aren't that unique at all. Many industries in fact, particularly those whose content can be turned into zeros and ones, are finding themselves struggling to rethink the ways in which they make money and how they will continue to remain profitable.
Recently, an article appeared in The Daily ...
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Has a Dream for Jazz
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Lubricity
Today we celebrate the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. King displayed a deep appreciation for jazz and understood its symbolic role in the struggle for civil rights. In honor of his memory, allow me to share one of my favorite jazz-related quotes, courtesy of Dr. King: Now, jazz is exported to the world. For in the particular struggle of the Negro in America there is something akin to the universal struggle of modern man. Everybody has ...
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Picture of Elvis and Nixon is Worth a Thousand Words
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Michael Ricci
Behind the famous photo is a little-known story of an unlikely meeting in which the king of rock 'n' roll had his wish granted by the president.
The National Archives is like a safe-deposit box for America's really important papers -- the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence, the $7.2-million canceled check for the purchase of Alaska, the picture of Richard Nixon and Elvis Presley shaking hands in the Oval Office. Copies of that photo -- the president in ...
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Jazz Masters Honored
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Wednesday night, the 2010 NEA Jazz Master awards went to pianists Kenny Barron, Cedar Walton and Muhal Richard Abrams; arranger, composer and band leader Bill Holman; saxophonist and flutist Yusef Lateef; vibrahaphonist Bobby Hutcherson; singer Annie Ross (pictured at the ceremony); and record producer George Avakian. They received their medals and checks in a National Endowment For The Arts ceremony at Lincoln Center. To read accounts of the event by Nate Chinen of The New York Times and my artsjournal.com ...
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A List of Income Streams for Musicians
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This guest post by David Sherbow looks at potential artist revenue streams. David is the CEO ofLiveMusicMachine.com and blogs MusicBizGuy Speaks.
The artist music business model has been in flux for years. The record deal dream that most artists sought is no longer the viable alternative that it once was. The leveling of the music distribution playing field by the Internet is virtually complete. Terrestrial radio is on a path towards destruction that even the major labels can't ...
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