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This is all about price. Spotify should be for consumers that are willing to pay an extreme premium. Spotify's technology is great and should be embraced but ONLY if the service is priced properly in relation to existing revenue streams.
Once again, the powers that be that cut deals with Spotify allowed themselves to be whored as a loss leaders to popularize third party technology. It should be the other way around or prohibit access to the content period.
Distributor Pulls 234 Labels From Spotify, Napster, Rdio After iTunes Payments Drop 24%
Electronic music distributor STHoldings has pulled all its distributed labels from streaming music services Spotify, Simfy, Rdio and Napster. "Despite these services offering promotion to many millions of music listeners we have concerns that these services cannibalize the revenues of more tra...
Maybe not but the numbers don't lie. He flipped Def Jam twice. He flipped WMG three times if you include the initial deal.
I know what a scoreboard is.
Lyor Cohen Says Salaries Of WMG's "Transformative" Executives Justifies 360 Deals [VIDEO]
(UPDATED) In this interview, Warner Music Group head Lyor Cohen almost sounds like a man reborn in this new interview with Forbes' Zack O'Malley Greenburg. Critical of "the excesses of the industry", "artificial barriers of distribution" and $19 CDs, but bullish on 360 deals, Cohen shares the ...
Lyor Cohen is a black-belt music executive of highest degree.
Look at his track record. All he does is win, win, win. Look at the artists and executives he has truly committed to--they all win, win, win. Look at his enemies--they all have fallen on their own swords.
Any way you cut it there is a lot to learn from this man. We are talking about a guy that started as a tour manager for Russell Simmons.
This is a true warrior.
Lyor Cohen Says Salaries Of WMG's "Transformative" Executives Justifies 360 Deals [VIDEO]
(UPDATED) In this interview, Warner Music Group head Lyor Cohen almost sounds like a man reborn in this new interview with Forbes' Zack O'Malley Greenburg. Critical of "the excesses of the industry", "artificial barriers of distribution" and $19 CDs, but bullish on 360 deals, Cohen shares the ...
Any way you cut this was a poorly executed move by Tunecore--a PR disaster.
Tunecore CEO Jeff Price Defends Flat vs. % Music Distribution Fees
When Tunecore raised its yearly flat fee digital distributions rates recently, many users supported the change while a few vowed to leave the service. Yesterday, after competitor CD Baby offered a discount to artists to switch to its percentage based distribution, a heated debate raged among H...
What about the labels?
Are You One Of 7462 RootMusic Artists Owed $5.3 Million From SoundExchange?
RootMusic, the company behind Facebook’s music app BandPage has partnered with performance rights nonprofit SoundExchange in an effort to connect 7,462 artists to $5.3 Million in unclaimed royalties. RootMusic provided a list of artists who’ve created BandPages and SoundExchange matched that l...
This should be settled the old fashioned way. :)
Live Nation Senior Exec Calls Bob Lefsetz An "Asshole With A Computer"
(UPDATED) After it was reported that former Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino had gotten a 137% pay hike, music industry commentator Bob Lefsetz joined the chorus wondering how a company that's losing money and laying off staff can pay each of its top executives millions of dollars in bonuses. Th...
iLike part 2?
JamLegend Music Gaming Site Shutting Down
(UPDATED() After three years of of competing with Rock Band and Guitar Hero, online music gaming site JamLegend is shutting down. Investors had ponied up $2 million and legendary VC Ali Patovi sat on the advisory board. "We successfully weathered the great and stormy seas many startups face, g...
In 2015 will there be the need to "download" any media whatsover? I think not.
$7000 Per Copy Report Says U.S. Digital Sales Will Pass CDs In 2012
You could pay $6999 for Strategy Analytics' Digital Media Strategies report, “Global Recorded Music Market Forecast” or I can just tell you that it says that that digital sales will pass CD sales next year in the U.S. For you're $7K they'll also tell you: Total recorded music sales in the U...
There is only one way streaming can work: build the subscriber base quickly, then raise the price for subscriptions, then raise the royalties paid to artists/labels for streams. Lastly, piracy must be continue to decline.
If all of the above happens, we see a bright future for the music industry.
Streaming May Topple Music Industry Iceberg
The IFPI reports that digital sale grew a meager 5.1% last year and that in the U.S., growth was almost flat at 1.2%. These numbers and chart that accompanies them aren't that shocking, but they do illustrate why the major labels are both excited for Google and Spotify to come to the market, ...
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Mar 10, 2011
That could work but what they really need to do is kill the returns. Retailers have to be on the hook for what they order.
Rebirth For Music Retail? Negotiations Begin To Charge Stores Just 80 Cents Upfront To Stock A CD
(UPDATE) UK retailer Tesco is asking record labels to accept much smaller upfront payments for CDs with an additional payout once it sells. The negotiation tests the bargaining power labels still have as CDs sales continue to decline. Similar talks have reportedly begun in the US, and the shift...
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