Clive Davis/Arista/J/RCA albums in the Top 200: #6 – Kelly Clarkson "Breakaway" – 5,813,208 #177 – Barry Manilow "Ultimate Manilow" – 2,069,502 Oh, do you want to credit him with Maroon 5? I’m not down with that, but if you throw that in we’ve got a grand total of 3 continuous sellers in the history […]

They must be getting a mighty big check. And a bunch of TV promotion. Is there a shortage of AC/DC music online? Are people waiting with bated breath for the band’s material to show up on iTunes? Is it like the unavailability of the Dave Clark 5 in the CD era? No. You can easily […]

Is Universal next? Dow Jones sold out to Rupert Murdoch because it didn’t have an adequate plan for the future. No way to compete with the behemoths on the Web. Oh, they had a pay site, with little reach, in a world where YouTube goes from obscurity to ubiquity overnight. Where MySpace garners millions of […]

Whew! In the sixties, we didn’t go over our friends’ houses to play PS2 or Wii. We dropped by with cardboard sleeves under our arms, we were there to listen to music. And listen is what we did. We weren’t IM’ing, weren’t texting. We were sitting in front of the largest speakers we could afford, […]