1. Long Haul, Not Front-Load Front-loading is for movies and SoundScan. You’re not making movies and SoundScan means less than ever before and will continue to die. You wanted a big first week in SoundScan so retailers would order more music and the mainstream press would hype your debut. Physical retail is dying and now […]

My inbox is blowing up with Bowie backlash. And normally I would not react in print, but I’ve got two points to make. The first is a correction. It turns out the YouTube video of the clip has in excess of two million plays. Why the Vevo take has so few… All I can say […]

Yesterday’s news. I’m not talking about the man himself so much as his new track, his new album… A circle jerk publicity campaign that the old wave ate up and we’ve already moved on from. I mean how can someone who used to get it so right, who was on the bleeding edge, get it […]

iTunes 11 is a disaster. If Steve Jobs were still alive it wouldn’t have happened, and if it had, someone would have been fired. They took a program which did what it was supposed to, manage your music and allow you to shop in the iTunes Store, and added so many features as to make […]