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Your Best Friend Calls You and Tells You He/She's Really Sick? How Do You Show You Care?
"If a Studio Doesn't Fly a Flag, They're Dead." It goes without saying that today's music space is hypercompetitive—mainly as a result from the near zero barriers to entry. Virtually anyone can record an album, distribute, tour, and sell product directly to fans. “I don't think there's anything negative about that," says John Vanderslice, founder of ...
Collective Bargaining: Threat or Menace? By Steve Provizer
You know the story: A guy is crawling on the ground looking for something under a lamp post. His friend comes up and says “Oh, is that where you dropped your wallet?" The guy replies," No, I dropped it over there, but this is where the light is." So, America has dropped its wallet and instead ...
Why the Music Industry is F*ked, by Mark Mulligan...
Music industry researchers are finally starting to embrace reality, but are they taking it too far? In Toronto this morning at Canadian Music Week, Forrester Research analyst Mark Mulligan played quite the stark realist—a tune that started in Midem. “Unless the periphery becomes the core, something needs to happen," Mulligan started out, before running through a ...
YouTube: Is This the Best the Industry Can Do?
Everyone is rooting for subscription. And it's hard to imagine anyone getting more hype and funding than Spotify. But the music industry may already be staring its killer app in the face: YouTube. “YouTube is music's killer app," declared ForresterResearch analyst Mark Mulligan at Canadian Music Week in Toronto. “The music video remains the consumer usage ...
Would You Buy Warner Now if You Could?
Between Warner and EMI on the selling block you're about to see several billion more dollars injected into our supposedly diminishing industry. An opportunity for anyone to make money with music in the next few months is upon us. Do you know the best part of having integrity? You don't have to back-peddle when your hidden ...
The Elimination of the Major Label Model
This comment was left by Ritch Esra, the Publisher of Music Business Registry, on the post 6 Reasons Why The Major Labels Are Still Screwed. The four major labels have a far more profound problem which is that they can no longer sustain their business model. Last year, around this time, writer Paul Rogers' published an ...
What It Really Means To Be A Working Musician
As the title of this blog suggests, I pride myself on being a working musician. This year marks my 10th anniversary of making a living through my music and I couldn't be happier with how my life has turned out. When I quit my day job in 2001 I had no idea what my life would ...
Admit It, Social Media is out of Control.
If despots can't control social media, how can we expect to? It may seem a trivial comparison, but it is a useful one. In our own little world of music, can anyone really predict, much less guarantee, social success? Messages to fans are re-interpreted in unexpected ways. Facebook, the dominate social channel, is constantly changing the ...
Being Wrong Doesn't Matter, Being Curious Does.
Before we get back to our regularly scheduled programming, i.e. the music industry deathwatch, social media wizardry, and gentle major label bashing, I need to clear something up. Right here. Right now. In the comments, a reader said that if I continue to make bold predictions and declare things “dead" that I'm increasing my chances of ...
The Negative Effects of Rewarding Music Fandom
FanTrail is the latest of the line in app platforms that attempt to increase the connectivity between fans and the artists they love. Like any product of this kind, artists can update their fans from one location, sell music, and provide concert information. Where FanTrail differs is that it has integrated a fandom measurement and reward ...
