Archive for the 'Music Business' Category


From Kathy & Jimmy

Re: The Go-Go’s Movie Bob, You make some good observations, as usual. But also as usual, there’s a lot more to the story. Richard Gottehrer was the perfect producer, and had the foresight to make a classic album in terms of production. When a Go-Go’s song is heard in 2020 there’s no telltale gated snare […]

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, […]