Leadership Lessons from Dancing Guy In yesterday’s "New York Times", Lucian Grainge, Universal Music’s CEO-To-Be said: "I believe that the CD will out-survive me as a format." Universal Music Names Grainge as Its Next Chief That’s utterly laughable. We could allow Lucian to explain himself, but the damage has been done, Lucian has debuted in […]

The Warner Music Group is making money.  The publicized loss is due to accounting, having to do with amortization and other issues Wall Street understands and lay people do not.  But what is the future? You can read the transcript of the Warner earnings call here: Warner Music Group Earnings Call Transcript And if you […]

There’s a war going on in the music business and rights holders are afraid they’re going to lose. The public is clueless, it barely sees the battles while it steals music.  But the future is subscription, which doesn’t involve only music, but products ancillary thereto, maybe even completely virtual. If you’ve been following the Amazon/Macmillan […]

Bruce Springsteen may be haggard, a bit worse for wear, but it befits his ethos, I’m just a hardworking journeyman telling the tales of the working man.  He wants to appear vibrant, alive, still in the creative mode.  He even puts out new albums. Same deal with Paul McCartney.  He dyes his hair, but wants […]