Archive for 2008/07


It’s A Worldwide Business

Some lawyer or some manager somewhere knows why VH1 can’t be streamed outside the U.S. As my mother would say, way to win friends and influence people. The reason the old infrastructure is dying, the reason I laugh when Doug Morris and the old farts make pronouncements, the reason legal solutions are not the answer, […]

VH1 Rock Honors-The Who

I was thinking that music should be banned from VH1, then I saw Pearl Jam. I read this great quote. How did they decide to honor the Who? Well, they were thinking of someone else, but the Who were available. They were creating a TV show! Maybe that’s how they ended up with this ridiculous […]

Digital Sales-Week Ending 7/13/08

TRACKS 1. Katy Perry "I Kissed A Girl" Sales this week: 162,951Percentage change: -7Weeks on: 11Cume: 1,487,745 She only sold 31,971 albums total. And, of those, 6,233 were digital. Seems like a hit today is the track and the track itself. I think the sale of one and a half million copies is significant. But […]

Shazam

If I get one more e-mail about Shazam, I’m going to explode! What’s worse, hating the iPhone cult or secretly wanting to join? Seems like Apple’s winning this war. Haters said the computers were too expensive, incompatible…but now the haters are a cult, because everybody’s shifted to the other side, Macintosh computer sales are through […]