Archive for the 'Music Business' Category


E-Mail Of The Day (Monday Dec. 17th edition)

 Joel Sill: I don’t know if you knew him but Joel Dorn died this morning. He went to his doctor’s office with an eye pain and collapsed with a massive heart attack that took him. If you didn’t know Joel you missed something. He was one of a kind. He traveled his own road but […]

Straight No Chaser

 Did you read Rich Greenfield’s report on A&R? This guy is on a tear. Seemingly every week this Pali Research analyst tears the major labels a new asshole. It would have to be an outsider, because those involved in the business are convinced their shit doesn’t stink. But it does. In his most recent report, […]

We Wish You A Merry Christmas

Did you ever sing in the Glee Club? I tried out in seventh grade. I thought everybody made it, until I missed the cut the following year. It was fun, to sing. Actually, my favorite song was a hit by Wayne Newton, which ironically Felice’s father wrote. You sing and there’s a certain joy, a […]

SoundScan-Week Ending 12/16/07

199. White Stripes "Icky Thump" Sales this week: 8,109Cume: 664,573 If we didn’t have to read so much about Jack White, if he wasn’t such a media darling in a media saturated world, we wouldn’t see this number as a disappointment, but as the number of an up and comer. Before Meg had her anxiety […]