https://shorturl.at/aG189 This went up yesterday, but I didn’t find out about it until today, from a tweet by analyst Brandon Ross. No post in “Hits.” No post in “Billboard.” It’s like the announcement was dropped and it didn’t even make a ripple in the water. I Googled. I couldn’t find one reference to this post, […]

They used to do this when times were bad, but never when times were good. Hell, the three major label groups all keep trumpeting their results, how great they are, then again Bill Ackman has a big position in Universal, which proves the point, it’s all about the stock price baby, the underlying business is […]

I’m on Universal’s side on this. TikTok should pay rightsholders more. But we’ve seen this movie before. As documented in the book “Hit Men,” CBS Records wanted to eliminate the underworld of independent radio promotion. Therefore, it refused to pay. End result, the radio stations played music by acts on the other five major labels […]

1 Why can’t we have more albums like “Frampton at Royal Albert Hall”? Today’s listening experience is different. So much of music is foreground, whereas yesterday the music used to live in the background, it was personal, just you and the tunes, a secret communication. Credit FM radio. Before that, it was all about the […]