Archive for the 'Music Business' Category


Moving To Streaming

Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines, the streaming era has begun. And it’s going to turn the music business upside down. So much of what now exists will evaporate. The game will be completely different. It will switch from one focused on sales to actual listening. Right now, Spotify is pioneering. It appears to be […]

Sales-Week Ending 7/31/11

#1 on the Digital Songs chart is LMFAO Featuring Lauren Bennett & GoonRock. The name of the song is "Party Rock Anthem". I’d love to tell you I know it, but I’ve never even heard it. Top Forty is a niche that you can avoid quite easily. If you think Top Forty music rules the […]

Adaptability

Just got home from the movie theatre where we saw "Transcendent Man Live With Ray Kurzweil". Transcendent Man Live With Ray Kurzweil Huh? Maybe you know the Kurzweil piano. Or the Segway, Dean Kamen, its inventor ,was there too. As well as Steve Wozniak, computer programmer extraordinaire. They were all in NYC beaming to 49 […]

Pen Type-A

Today’s big story is Heidi and Spencer are broke. They go on record that reality television is anything but, and state that there’s no future in being a reality star: When Reality-TV Fame Runs Dry In other words, don’t equate fame with a career. Don’t even equate fame with being rich, did you read in […]