Write a hit single. After all that hype, stories in every mainstream publication known to man and an appearance on the Emmys, Elton John sold a paltry 48,000 albums this week. And you know it’s less than 20,000 next week and then it’s over. What happened? Elton failed to write a hit song. Too many […]

It’s irrelevant, he’s dead. Oh, I could divine a lot of lessons from the conclusion, as to the liability of concert promoters and the greediness of heirs, but what we truly learned about the Michael Jackson trial is that which is not on television doesn’t really matter. It’s the national sport. Forgetting how poor you […]

“Electronic Arts, the publisher of the Madden football series and other sports favorites, sold 67 different titles in stores in the fiscal year ending March 2009. In its last fiscal year, it sold 13.” Shrinking List of Video Games Is Dominated by Blockbusters I read. You can sit on the phone all day, go to […]

SoundScan #1: Jack Johnson “From Here To Now” Sales: 117,260 Debut Entered the chart at number one! Got ink in every major newspaper! But the single, “I Got You,” has 1,157,909 plays on YouTube. Not bad…in 2011. But in 2013, when Miley Cyrus has 173,715,141 views of “Wrecking Ball,” I ask you…who is the biggest […]