4. Christina Aguilera "Back To Basics"This week: 100,740Cume: 581,996 Mmm… In the old days, the REALLY old days, of Fleetwood Mac’s "Rumours", you’d sell an album for a couple of years, off of endless hit singles. But now, you can’t count on even ONE hit single. You’ve got to prove yourself at Top Forty, no […]

If this were the future of music retailing, Wal-Mart would get out of the CD business because CDBaby eviscerated its revenue. Please, please, please, let us state now and for all time, the hardest thing to do in the music sphere is find good talent.  Just about all bands suck.  Ask the major labels, what’s […]

The biggest act in music isn’t Christina Aguilera OR Justin Timberlake. It’s Pink Floyd. Now if you asked me a couple of years back, I would have said Led Zeppelin.  Jimmy and the boys are still huge, but they’ve been eclipsed.  By the sheer magic of the head-spinning aural gyrations of Roger Waters, David Gilmour […]

"’If someone wants to buy a million CDs from us and then give them away on a street corner, that’s fine with us as long as we get paid,’ said Larry Kenswil, a top digital-media executive at Universal Music." Universal Music to Offer Free Downloads Which way do these guys want it?  Music is so […]