Archive for the 'Music Business' Category


Digital Music

Soon your iPod will never break. Many of you weren’t around in the early days of computing, the eighties, when hard drives were introduced for personal computers, and failed on a regular basis.  You backed up everything on floppies, because that day was going to come.  When you heard that grinding noise and your data […]

More Chicks

If I get one more e-mail from a bleeding heart liberal who’s never been to Nashville and is afraid of anybody with more than four wheels on his pickup truck I’m gonna PUKE!  It’s self-righteous people like you who got George Bush REELECTED, by expressing contempt for your "ignorant" brothers south of the Mason-Dixon line. […]

Cumulative Sales

1. "Loose"Nelly Furtado Weeks on chart: 1Cumulative sales: 219,118 We all hate her.  For blinking.  For giving up her left-field identity and working with Timbaland to insure hits and a viable career.  This wouldn’t have happened in the old days (the seventies!) when who you were was more important than your fame. Disgusting. 3. "Taking […]

Warner-EMI

This isn’t about music, this is about money.  And when it comes to money, the brass at EMI isn’t even in the same LEAGUE as the brain trust running Warner. EMI is looking at this from a music perspective.  How to ultimately compete with Universal and Sony BMG in a three way fight for dominance.  […]