WARNER MUSIC IPO The crime here goes back to 2004, when Time Warner blew out its record division for $2.6 billion. Today Warner Music is valued at $15 billion. Assuming you’d taken that $2.6 billion, invested it an annual rate of return of 10%, after fourteen years, i.e. today, you’d have $11.95 billion. 10% is […]

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Could the music industry do any LESS? I’m talking about the recorded music industry, the live business has been blacked out for months, with no light on the horizon. But the labels… Let me see… Warner, Sony and Universal. Keep congratulating yourself as you only sign and promote hip-hop and pop. Oh, don’t tell me […]

He must’ve had a bad case of something. Music has turned into news. There’s no filter, no trusted authority. There’s an endless firehose of material and no one can be trusted to separate the noteworthy from that which should be ignored. But that’s not the way it used to be. It was very simple…did you […]