Music Business

Goodnight, CDs, Goodnight: the Return of Vinyl

Marissa Moss | Posted 07.24.2008 | Media

Read More: mp3, Ipod, Cd, Music Business, Vinyl, Entertainment News, Merge Records, Insound, Vinyl Is Back, Lp, Sub Pop, Music Sales, Music, Ep, Media News
Marissa Moss

The once antiquated method of listening to music has been making a welcome comeback among both young and old music fans, especially in the indie-music realm. So why now?

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Steve Perry, Sam Cooke, Arnel Pineda, and My Journey To Obsession

Tony Sachs | Posted 07.01.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Classic Rock, The Sopranos, Music Business, Arena Rock, Neal Schon, Family Guy, Sam Cooke, Steve Perry, REO Speedwagon, Knott's Berry Farm, Gq, New York Times, Arnel Pineda, Journey, Soul Music, Styx, Kansas, South Park, Entertainment News
Tony Sachs

The question haunted me: If Sam Cooke was one of the all-time great soul singers, and Steve Perry sounded like Sam Cooke, did that make Steve Perry a great soul singer, too?

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The Business Of Music

Mike Ragogna | Posted 06.21.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: CD Sales, Music Business, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

Do you have any friends in the music business? If so, right about now would be a good time to check in on them. Stress is high, physical sales are low, downsizing is imminent.

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Madonna's Missed Opportunity

Andrew Kronfeld | Posted 05.29.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Madonna, Live Nation, Rolling Stones, Music Business, Radiohead, Entertainment News
Andrew Kronfeld

Frankly Madonna missed a massive opportunity to truly change the business on behalf of so many artists. She seems to me to miss the point of being a free agent.

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Quenching the Thirst: Giving the Fans What They Want, When They Want It

Jermaine Dupri | Posted 05.23.2008 | Business

Read More: Music, Music Business, Phatfffat, Business News
Jermaine Dupri

These days in music, when something's hot you have to seize the moment, or it's over. It's all happening at warp speed, and it's our job as label executives to keep up.

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American Idol and the Cool Quotient

Sharon Waxman | Posted 05.22.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Simon Cowell, David Cook, Music, American Idol, David Archuleta, Music Business, Music Industry, Entertainment News
Sharon Waxman

You can read the dominance of the cult of American Idol and the demise of the American music business in the cool quotient of performers at the results finale at the Nokia theater last night.

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Herb Alpert Made My Wife Cry

Tony Sachs | Posted 05.14.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: '60s Pop Music, Music Business, Popular Standards, Sergio Mendes, Bob Dylan, Miles Davis, Herb Alpert, New York City, This Guy's in Love With You, Beatles, Tijuana Brass, Record Industry, Jazz, Corrine Bailey Rae, Brazilian Music., Lani Hall, Tommy LiPuma, Rolling Stones, Burt Bacharach, Joe's Pub, Bill Moyers, Entertainment News
Tony Sachs

My wife was a puddle of tears at Herb Alpert's show with his wife, singer Lani Hall, at Joe's Pub in New York last week. If you know Herb Alpert's music, you know it's not the type of thing that starts people spontaneously weeping.

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The Case Of The Missing Dave Clark Five CDs

Tony Sachs | Posted 04.13.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: The Beatles, Compact Discs, Classic Rock, MP3 Downloads, Prince, Music Business, British Invasion, Dave Clark Five, Sgt. Pepper, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Mike Smith, Itunes, Music Retail, Merseybeat, Entertainment News
Tony Sachs

Clark was a business genius decades before savvy musicians started negotiating their own contracts (or at least hiring competent lawyers to do so).

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Mariah Carey Surpasses Elvis — But The Context is Missing

Tom Alderman | Posted 04.02.2008 | Media

Read More: Sam Goody, The Beatles, Billboard Chart, Barry Bonds, Elvis, Music Business, Digital Downloads, Tower Records, Mariah Carey, Hank Aaron, Associated Press, Billboard, The AP, Mariah Carey Sales, Downloading Music, Music, Elvis Presley, Media News
Tom Alderman

Statistics, like everything, should be viewed in context: Mariah Carey's time is the steroidal, digital download era where music is just a 99 cent click away, in-between meetings at the office.

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If R.E.M. Makes A Comeback Album And Nobody Hears It, Does It Still Rock?

Tony Sachs | Posted 03.26.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Van Halen, Ipod, Music Business, Music Blogs, Mike Mills, '80s Rock, Satellite Radio, Bill Berry, Pop Music, Alternative Rock, U2, Rock Blog, Peter Buck, Internet Radio, Mtv, Michael Stipe, R.E.M., Rolling Stones, Accelerate, Entertainment News
Tony Sachs

For the remaining faithful, a listen to their 14th and latest album, Accelerate, will feel like a vindication of sorts. The question is, who still cares?

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The Democratization of the Music Industry

Jeff Price | Posted 03.24.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Digital Music, Music Distribution, Itunes, Record Labels, Music, spinART Records, Music Business, Emusic, Tunecore, Entertainment News
Jeff Price

The Internet, digital media and hardware took control of the global music industry away from the record labels and media outlets and handed it to the masses.

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Roll Over Radiohead And Tell Trent Reznor The News

Tony Sachs | Posted 01.11.2008 | Business

Read More: Pop Music, Compact Discs, CD Sales, Trent Reznor, Music Business, Nine Inch Nails, Music Downloading, Billboard Magazine, In Rainbows, Radiohead, CD Collectors, Record Collectors, Lps, Business News
Tony Sachs

Why did so many people wait for the opportunity to pay for something they could have had for free months ago? The answer is obvious: music is a thing.

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MySpace, Faked Space?

Rachel Corbett | Posted 12.11.2007 | Entertainment

Read More: Social Networking, Music Business, Myspace, Arctic Monkeys, Entertainment News
Rachel Corbett

Label scouts have transformed into mathematicians, trained to spot faked pages, and all but forming algorithms and truth squads to do it.

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How To Destroy A Profitable Industry In Just A Few Easy Steps

Howie Klein | Posted 11.26.2007 | Entertainment

Read More: Music Business, Warner Music, Doug Morris, Warner Bros, Entertainment News
Howie Klein

In commenting on a profile of "Universal Music Group CEO/supervillain Doug Morris," New York's "Vulture" section comes to the correct conclusion about the music biz -- but for the wrong reason.

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Is a CD Worth the Plastic it's Burned on Anymore?

Tony Sachs | Posted 10.11.2007 | Entertainment

Read More: Recording Industry, Record Sales, Music Business, Radiohead, Entertainment News
Tony Sachs

Just because record companies have charged too much for music for at least the last 15 years doesn't mean the pendulum should swing so far in the other direction that it should all have no monetary value.

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