Archive for the 'Music Business' Category


Extrapolation

I’ve got a Samsung Galaxy S5 smartphone I’ve customized to the nth degree therefore everyone who utilizes Android is neither cheap nor stupid. I’m rich, everybody I know is rich, therefore EVERYBODY must be rich! The problem with today’s society is people can only see through their own eyes. I think this happened when the […]

Can We Stop Talking About…

ALBUMS Coldplay sells an anemic 384,000 copies and in a few weeks it’ll be over, like it never came out, even those who bought it will be done with it. Just like the Black Keys, who debuted at number one with 164,000 and then sold only 54,000 in week two. And they think they’re winning […]

The Beats Deal

Blame it on Bob Morgado. Who? That’s just the point. This guy single-handedly destroyed the Warner Music Group, by believing it was about making the trains run on time, short term profit and loss, by not knowing that business is all about people. Huh? Warner was the dream team. Not the umbrella company, but the […]

Myths

1. Sales count. They’re almost as irrelevant as the old billboards on the Sunset Strip, they’re a way to stroke the egos of the players involved. It’s no longer whether someone buys your album, but whether they listen to it, that’s the relevant metric that everybody seems to ignore as they trumpet the anemic, irrelevant […]