I’m against it. That’s right, I could say I’m with the industry and have my inbox overflow, but that’s not how I feel. You can’t hold back the future. Enough with the “value gap.” The truth is songs are streamed more on Spotify than they are on YouTube these days. Furthermore, YouTube gives people a […]

Spotify YouTube I ignored the hype. But then I got hooked by the banner on Spotify. Oh, you can turn it off. Over to the right, in grey, it says “Hide Announcements,” and then these banners will disappear, but do you want them to? I don’t want to read another story of a musician wise […]

Record companies used to have a formula, they’d cross tracks over from one format to another, ultimately ending up on Top 40 radio. That doesn’t happen anymore. Prior to the Beatles the music business was a backwater. Of course we listened, but there wasn’t that much money in recordings, music was the land of uneducated, […]

He’s got the top 23 tracks in the U.S. on Spotify. Globally he’s got the top 17 of 18, only the deceased XXXTENTACION sneaks in and breaks up the hegemony. The future is here. We’ve heard endlessly about the long tail, but the concomitant reaction is DOMINATION! In a world of unrelenting choice, the big […]