Archive for the 'Music Business' Category


Consensus Hits

There were only 17 last year. That’s down from 28 in 2020. In other words, if you’re overwhelmed with new music, feel out of touch, think you don’t know what is going on, welcome to the club. Those statistics are from Guy Zapoleon in the article: “2023 Marked Fourth Year Of Worst Music Doldrums For […]

2023 Deaths-SiriusXM This Week

Tune in Saturday December 23rd to Faction Talk, channel 103, at 4 PM East, 1 PM West. If you miss the episode, you can hear it on demand on the SiriusXM app. Search: Lefsetz

John Scher-This Week’s Podcast

The first half is about concert promotion. The second half is about the Grateful Dead. I guarantee you will hear things you’ve never heard before. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/john-scher/id1316200737?i=1000639322188 https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/9ff4fb19-54d4-41ae-ae7a-8a6f8d3dafa8/episodes/1233a80b-a973-4035-acfd-c62757099382/the-bob-lefsetz-podcast-john-scher

The Game

PUBLICITY There must be a story, that first and foremost intrigues the writer who believes it will intrigue the reader, otherwise the effort is worthless. Many publicity people will take your money and they’ll send out mailings to people like me who will instantly delete them. If all you want is a listing that your […]