I thought Taylor Swift was taking a year off. What has Bob Pittman ever done, other than take undeserved credit and trump up publicity to make it look like he’s a wunderkind when in reality he’s a self-satisfied huckster barely different from a used car salesman. Do we really believe he started MTV all by […]

LUCIAN GRAINGE “‘It could be in five years that the digital landscape has the same choices as the physical landscape had 25 years ago,’ Mr. Grainge said.” Financial Times But it won’t. There’s one iTunes, one Google, one Facebook, one Netflix, one Amazon… Anyone who thinks the future of music retailing will resemble the brick […]

Only one will win. There’s one Amazon, one Facebook, one Twitter and there will be one streaming music service. Will it be MOG? Spotify has problems. It sounds crummy and uptake amongst kids is close to nonexistent. David Hyman will claim MOG sounds superior. That more tracks stream at 320 kbps, and the codec is […]

"On YouTube, Amateur Is the New Pro" They pay. That’s the number one question I get, HOW DO I GET PAID? Actually, that’s two questions in one. How do you, the reader, get paid and secondarily, how do I, Bob Lefsetz, get paid. I’m not gonna answer the second. But I will say power is […]