Archive for the 'Music Business' Category


Jay-Z/iTunes

Get out of the Maybach, stop drinking the champagne…do you have ANY idea how people listen to music anymore? People haven’t listened to albums from start to finish since the death of vinyl. And, even in the vinyl days, we’d get up from the couch and needle-drop to skip lame tracks, to hear only what […]

Floorspace Shrinkage

Richard Greenfield is at it again. In yesterday’s Pali Research report he said: We had been assuming that US industry retail floor space devoted to CDs would contract over 20% in 2008, however, based on recent conversations with several music industry executives, we increasingly believe the reductions could be north of 30% with highly profitable […]

Mailbag

Bob, Phil Stevens here , in LA but jet lagged as fuck from flying in from the most isolated city in the world , good old Perth, WA Australia. Spent the night discovering the Rainbow Bar on Sunset, never seen so many long haired ex rockers..spent the afternoon meeting a great gentleman Gary Borman, manager […]

Getting Paid

If I get one more e-mail from an artist asking how to get paid I’m gonna explode! Didn’t anybody tell these people making music for a living was a privilege, not a right? I hate to rain on your parade here, but unless you move to a foreign country where the government pays you to […]