Archive for the 'Music Business' Category


The Millennial Switch

That’s the reason I sent that Bonnaroo report yesterday, to illustrate it’s not the baby boomers’ business anymore, it’s not even Generation X’s. We’ve been inundated with stories about the survival of classic rock bands, their road numbers, and the legacies of the early MTV acts, this is obscuring a fact that is becoming self-evident, […]

RapCaviar

RapCaviar Is driving the culture. It’s more important than radio. It’s where rap records get started, and rap rules America. How did this happen? MILLENNIALS! The pooh-poohed generation has taken over. They threw a monkey wrench into the British election and they’re skewing music listening. This is the way it always happens. Just when you […]

Taylor Swift On Spotify (And Everywhere Else)

There’s no story here. And to the degree there is one, it’s not about Swift. Streaming won, we live in an on demand culture. Furthermore, those at the top of the streaming chart are making beaucoup bucks. And with new chart formulas, it’s the streamers who top the chart, sales are nearly irrelevant. Hell, they’re […]

Pandora Tanks

And Sirius is looking to steal it. How did this happen? Myopia, and an unwillingness to acknowledge that the internet landscape had changed. It was a fountain of innovation. Every month there was a new site, a new app, we were all excited, it was akin to the British Invasion, internet innovation ruled the world… […]