Live by the hit, die by the hit. That’s why you don’t want to be a pop star. Used to be it was a reasonable trade. Everybody in the world knew your name and you could tour forever on even one hit. Not anymore. Now you can have a hit and not be able to […]

Don’t confuse consumption with reach. In other words, today’s metrics, which are really yesterday’s metrics, don’t give an accurate picture of what is happening in the landscape, they don’t indicate how big an act is, rather how many times one person listened to one song. Think about that. In the pre-internet days of scarcity it […]

Subject: Re: Chris Stapleton At The Hollywood Bowl Hi Bob, Light moves faster than sound- the images are often timed to give a better experience to people farther back who make the most use of the screens. The production will calculate the best delay to cater to the largest % of the crowd, this will […]

Deny the public what it wants at your peril. And the public does not want Joe Biden to be the Democratic nominee for President. It always happens first in music. It’s the canary in the coal mine. It’s the hottest medium amongst the young people, our future (they’re here to replace us as Jerry Seinfeld […]