BLACK EYED PEAS Friday 8/25: Black Eyed Peas/Pussycat DollsNikon At Jones Beach Theatre-Wantagh, NYGross: $358,551Tickets sold: 7,051Capacity: 13,855Percentage sold: 50.9%Ticket Prices: $59.50/$29.50 Sunday 8/27: Black Eyed Peas/Danity KaneNew York State Fair-Syracuse, NYGross: $212,491Tickets sold: 5,985Capacity: 16,400Percentage sold: 36.5%Ticket Prices: $52.00/$47.00 Tuesday 8/29: Black Eyed Peas/Pussycat DollsPNC Bank Arts Center-Holmdel, NJGross: $278,009Tickets sold: 8,557Capacity: 16,417Percentage sold: […]

The paradigm here isn’t MTV, but Napster. MTV wasn’t pirating the labels’ wares, building a business without compensation.  Hell, at first the labels were eager to give MTV videos.  Only after record companies experienced the juggernaut did they demand payment, and they ultimately received it, albeit minimally.  By then they’d lost their leverage, not that […]

1. Beyonce "B’day"Sales this week: 541,196Debut An impressive number.  Shows you why the big labels are interested in franchises/names.  But this album will live and die by its singles.  It’s almost the fourth quarter, so if it sustains for six weeks, it becomes a gift item.  So the timing is right, but still…to reach 5 […]

Al’s email is full of inaccuracies and misinformation. Giving him the benefit of the doubt, i’ll assume he doesn’t know any better as opposed to being a grumpy old man. Well, maybe it’s a bit of both. 1. iTunes is a store. It has never pretended to be anything else. The store never offered "universal" […]