It’s rare that an artist covers a song and trumps the original recording by the original artist. Shawn Colvin has that ability. "This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)" This version is wrecked by the tacking on of additional instrumentation to the naked live track. But that’s like chipping a finger off Michelangelo’s David, or […]

It sounds bad, it comes without artwork and you can’t even buy it in a store. Who would want an MP3? In this week’s "New Yorker", there’s a fascinating story on Clayton Christensen, author of the revered "Innovator’s Dilemma", which posits great companies run by great leaders satiating their customers’ desires are inches away from […]

Bob, you’re killing me. The U.S. launched a streaming music chart in March, months before this UK chart. It’s called the On-Demand Songs Chart. It’s a Billboard chart that measures all songs played on-demand on Spotify, MOG, Rhapsody, Rdio, Slacker, Muve and soon Zune and Sony Music Unlimited. You can find it here: http://www.billboard.com/charts/on-demand-songs The […]

STREAMING CHART It launches next week in the U.K. Once again, our English brethren are ahead of the U.S., the self-described GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD! Ed Sheeran is the most streamed act in the U.K. He means nothing in the U.S. When will we ever learn, when will we ever learn. International boundaries mean […]