Archive for the 'Music Business' Category


Yellow Songs-Songs With “Yellow” In The Title-This Week On SiriusXM

Spotify Pandora Playlist: “Follow The Yellow Brick Road” – The Munchkins – 1939 – “The Wizard of Oz” “Itsy-Bitsy-Teeny-Weeny-Yellow-Polka-Dot Bikini” – Bryan Hyland – summer 1960 “The Yellow Rose Of Texas” – Mitch Miller – 1955- in “Giant” in ’56 “She Wore A Yellow Ribbon” – traditional (“Sing Along With Mitch” album from 1958 – […]

TikTok Shut Down/Sale

This is a music business issue. Despite the corroded infrastructure of the twentieth first century music business, based on terrestrial radio and a small number of top of the chart records, the best way to reach the target demo, the youth of today, with music, both old and new, is TikTok. We heard about gaming. […]

Spotify Economics

“Because as Spotify subscription numbers increase, so do payments. So, what DJ Khaled gets for a stream today is more than what Ed Sheeran got in the past.” Ah, the nitpickers are out in force. I hate to interact with them, but I’m wary of misinformation being spread. What I wrote above is loose language, […]

Daniel Ek On Streaming Royalties

“There is a narrative fallacy here, combined with the fact that, obviously, some artists that used to do well in the past may not do well in this future landscape, where you can’t record music once every three to four years and think that’s going to be enough. The artists today that are making it […]