Archive for the 'Music Business' Category


Audience & Impact

There’s not an artist alive who prefers money to reach. Unless that person was never an artist to begin with, or is so far over the hill that they’ve got nothing to say. That’s why you become an artist, to have your message heard by the most people possible. Then again, with all this focus […]

Barbra Streisand

What kind of bizarre world do we live in where the hype is bigger than the music? Welcome to 2018, when ancient artists depend upon the press to do their bidding and their new music has no impact. Talk about adjusting to the paradigm…they don’t. Just like the rockers decrying streaming payments as they fade […]

The Post Hit Era

You’re now a musician. Ignore the hit parade. Spotify Top 50 is a miniscule cult. Yours might be even tinier but own it. If you believe you’re on the road to stardom, get out of the car right now, because that’s not how we play it these days. You can set yourself on fire and […]

Decentralization

The problem isn’t that people are consuming fake news, but that we can’t reach them with the real news! And for sure, one entity that’s got no insight into what is going on is the newsgatherers themselves, who keep wanting to stop screen time, the internet, as if ever in history we’ve gone backward. Trump […]