The only problem is people HATE HIM!<\/p>\n
Expecting Lyor Cohen to make peace with labels is like believing Roger Waters will get back together with David Gilmour for a concert in support of Israeli statehood.<\/p>\n
This shows how out of touch YouTube is, I hope the ink isn’t dry.<\/p>\n
As for Lyor himself…KUDOS! He crawled from the wreckage into a brand new car.<\/p>\n
Every other majordomo has faded into the woodwork. From Yetnikoff to Mottola, take away their checkbook, their power-base, and they’re done. Lyor opened his label, the 300, and ultimately had a hit with Fetty Wap, but despite that hit, despite all the hogwash about establishing a new paradigm, using Twitter data, not much else materialized.<\/p>\n
As for YouTube…<\/p>\n
They don’t need any hand-holding, they don’t need anybody explaining their position, they just need to agree to one take-down notice and higher royalty payments, something Robert Kyncl and his team have repeatedly said they would not do.<\/p>\n
This isn’t Spotify or Apple, with playlists and exclusives…<\/p>\n
And if you think the music industry wants to deliver those to YouTube… You don’t know that YouTube is more hated than Lyor.<\/p>\n
Lyor is known for loyalty. Like Pablo Escobar, his team would take a bullet for him. He’s a smart guy, but he’s street smart, and that doesn’t work in tech, it’s about the numbers, data doesn’t lie.<\/p>\n
Come on, can you imagine Lyor in a meeting convincing a label head or a manager? Do you even know how this guy speaks? And he needs to sit atop the pedestal, humility is not in his bag of tricks.<\/p>\n
This just proves that YouTube is clueless.<\/p>\n
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