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 […]

This is bullshit. The problem wasn’t that women and minorities weren’t being nominated, but that they weren’t WINNING! How in the hell is increasing the nominees in the top categories gonna solve this? It isn’t. It’s just tokenism. For an organization that is all about protecting the interests of marginal players at the expense of […]

We’ve got it in the record business too. Let’s start with the charts. WRONG! They exist for the producers, not the customers. They don’t calculate what people are listening to, not when there’s a formula of paid streams, video streams, sales and… But the bottom line is what is #1 may not be that big […]

Hurray For The Riff Raff was a revelation. Jack White was an inspiration. Jeff Goldblum was a surprise. And Gomez was having so much fun you felt like you wanted to join a band. It’s summer in Southern California. But despite being the longest days of the year, it gets cold at night. For the […]