Archive for the 'Music Business' Category


Shazam

If I get one more e-mail about Shazam, I’m going to explode! What’s worse, hating the iPhone cult or secretly wanting to join? Seems like Apple’s winning this war. Haters said the computers were too expensive, incompatible…but now the haters are a cult, because everybody’s shifted to the other side, Macintosh computer sales are through […]

In Rainbows

Was the turning point. Most of the focus has been on its name your own price formula, but most important, it was released without a major label and as a result of being available for free, Radiohead achieved its number one goal, getting the music in as many hands as possible. That’s now the paradigm, […]

American Gothic

Ever spend one of those days in front of the computer from light to darkness and wonder where the time went? That was my Friday. My greatest accomplishment this week took place on Thursday afternoon, when I installed new RAM in my Mac Pro. Turned out to be a wee bit more complicated than the […]

Sales-Week Ending 7/13/08

1. Lil Wayne "Tha Carter III" Sales this week: 124,676Percentage change: -20%Cume: 1,806,562 Oh what a great country we live in. Where we have so many diversions that not only do we not care what’s number one, we never ever have to hear it if we don’t want to! The major labels perpetuated a myth, […]