Ben Sisario: A Billboard No. 1 Is at Stake, So Here’s an Album With Your Taylor Swift Hoodie Counting CD and track sales is like toting up the number of feature phone purchases. We live in an era of streaming and smartphones, why does the music industry insist on holding on to the past? This […]

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What is Happening to Streaming’s Superstars? My conclusions: 1. The major labels are screwed. 2. Rock isn’t as dead as we think it is. 3. When other genres adopt streaming, hip-hop’s hegemony will decline. Tim Ingham brings to attention the fact that the top five acts on streaming platforms have lost market share. In other […]

The news is up front, the death of iTunes and the superstar syndrome, as detailed here: The Economics of Rihanna’s Superstardom And it’s the best album Clapton plays on, which means “Delaney & Bonnie On Tour” counts, as well as John Mayall’s “Blues Breakers.” My favorite is the very first solo LP, produced by Delaney […]