"The week before the health care vote, The Times reported that births to Asian, black and Hispanic women accounted for 48 percent of all births in America in the 12 months ending in July 2008. By 2012, the next presidential election year, non-Hispanic white births will be in the minority. The Tea Party movement is […]

What if conventional wisdom isn’t conventional? Used to be you turned on the TV and took the temperature of the nation.  If you were truly sophisticated, you read the newspaper.  And learned what was really going on.  Or did you? Turns out the truth is a bit different from what the conventional media tells us […]

But I thought EMI was history, on the brink of extinction, how could Terra Firma’s company almost equal the Warner Music Group in new release market share, only half a percentage point separating the two? HitsDailyDouble has an exhaustive market share report: Q1 MARKETSHARE REPORT:SME, EMI PLAY CATCH UP You may have to register first, […]

The biggest crisis facing the music business isn’t pricing, of either music or concerts, but the lack of a filter telling people what to listen to. You may decry "American Idol", but at least it assembles a mass of eyeballs to pay attention to new performers. Yes, the music is well-known, but the performers are […]