Archive for the 'Music Business' Category


Lady GaGa/Amazon

It was supposed to be Groupon. The "Wall Street Journal" quotes an insider who says that the iTunes Store and Amazon combined moved 250-350,000 copies of the album.  And that’s just piss poor.  Especially in a country of 300 million. Bottom line… Amazon could not get the word out. Record labels pray at the altar […]

Mediocrity

I’m not interested. And neither is the public. Good enough just doesn’t cut it. Has anybody competed and won against the iPod?  Can you name an act today as good as the Beatles? Somehow, in the last few decades, artistic quality has become irrelevant.  In the dash for cash, it’s all about shooting low, to […]

Succeeding In Music

1. Why Why do you want to be a successful musician? A. Money There are a lot easier ways to get rich than playing music.  You’re better off writing an app, or finishing college and entering the banking sector.  If you’re playing music to get rich, you’re a chump.  Or else you have no other […]

E-Mail Of The Day

There is just so much money being thrown at Capitol Hill by a sector of the industry that represent what was, not what is today or what will be tomorrow. It makes me cringe to have them be the sole voice of the "industry". Yes, the legacy of the music industry must be protected, but […]