Music Industry

Ben Silverman's Comments on Margins vs. Ratings Signal the End of Broadcast Television

Shelly Palmer | Posted 07.22.2008 | Media

Read More: Nbc, Television, Superbowl, Television Ratings, M*a*S*H, Ben Silverman NBC, Music Industry, Ben Silverman, Media News
Shelly Palmer

All of the professional explanations for the decline of broadcast television ratings seem to agree that the problem comes from outside forces and an unavoidable changing landscape. I disagree.

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Clouds and Pirates: Darknets Rising

Shelly Palmer | Posted 07.14.2008 | Business

Read More: Peer to Peer Downloading, Digital Downloads, Music Downloads, Movie Downloads, Illegal Downloading, Free Downloads, Music Industry, Business News
Shelly Palmer

Soon, "darknet" technology is going to become so easy commonplace that the law of unintended consequences may innocently take the movie business to the place where the music business has gone to die.

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Music Industry's "360" Plan Fails: What's Next?

Sillicon Alley Insider | Peter Kafka | Posted 06.22.2008 | Business

Read More: Music Companies, Music 360, Music Industry Rescue Plan, Music Industry, Music 360 Plan, Business News

Live Nation (LYV) just concluded a round of boardroom intrigue by shoving out executive Michael Cohl, who had been spearheading the company's transiti...

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The Fault Is Not In Our Rock Stars, But In Ourselves

Sal Nunziato | Posted 06.22.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: New Orleans, Music Industry, Threadheads, Retail, CD Sales, Alejandro Escovedo, Little Feat, Jason Falkner, The Byrds, Entertainment News
Sal Nunziato

The major labels may have soured the consumer into buying less and caring less, but we didn't need to decide to not buy the thousands of great affordable CDs that were still available.

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Who Fights for the Music? Who Speaks for the Songs?

RJ Eskow | Posted 06.19.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Pop Music, Sasha Frere-Jones, Hillary Rosen, Gary Hart, Music Industry, Guitar Hero, Auto-Tune, Don Henley, Mitch Bainwol, Bill Frist, Music Future, Entertainment News
RJ Eskow

There are groups to represent record companies, artists, and composers -- but who speaks for the music?

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Can Blogs Save The Music Industry?

Fortune | Devin Leonard | Posted 06.19.2008 | Business

Read More: Fixing the Music Industry, Saving the Music Industry, Jon Cohen, Music Blogs, Free Music, Rob Stone, RCRD LBL, Free Music Downloads, Music Industry, mp3 Blogs, Marketing Music, Business News

Pity the music industry. Between 99-cent downloads, free - if not always legal -file-sharing services and MP3 blogs, and an increasingly fragmented au...

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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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Frank Sinatra: Ten Years After His Death, The Best Is Yet To Come

Tony Sachs | Posted 05.08.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Chrissie Hynde, Jon Secada, Record Industry, Compact Discs, American Music, Music Downloading, Music Industry, Bootleg CDs, Rat Pack, Capitol Records, Standards, Frank Sinatra, Nancy Sinatra, Reprise Records, File Sharing, Nostalgia, Las Vegas, Entertainment News
Tony Sachs

Would you believe me if I told you that over 60 studio recordings exist of Frank Sinatra singing with a small jazz band--over two dozen of which he never recorded before or after in the studio?

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I May Not Be The Next American Idol But I Did Just Win A Record Deal

Tommy Wallach | Posted 05.02.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Record Industry, Music, Music Industry, Tommy Wallach, Gather First, Entertainment News
Tommy Wallach

As the means of locating new talent has gone digital, there's no easier way for agents, publishers, record labels, galleries, and circus promoters to drum up both talent and buzz than a contest online.

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Local Women Rock New Orleans Jazz Fest 2008 on Acura Stage and West Bank

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 04.28.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Katrina Songs, Susan Cowsill, New Orleans Jazz and Music Festival, Kim Carson, Betty Harris, Music Industry, Theressa Andersson, John Bouette, Mississippi Delta, Marc Stone, Music, Sonia Tetlow, Jazz Fest, Nola, Entertainment News
Georgianne Nienaber

The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival (Jazz Fest 2008) opened on Friday May 25 to a packed park, and the sight of the crowds staking out spots on the racetrack infield signaled that the heart and soul of New Orleans was back.

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La Strada: Your New Favorite Indie Band

E. A. Hanks | Posted 03.14.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Online Music, CD Sales, La Strada Band, Brooklyn, La Strada, Brooklyn Music, Music Industry, New York Music, Radiohead, Entertainment News
E. A. Hanks

Drawing on Jungian archetypes, folk tales and Franco-Baltic harmonies, La Strada offers up the best of the New York indie scene: interesting music made by talented people who have a point of view and a love for what they do.

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Half Of All Teens Refuse To Buy CDs

Los Angeles Times | Michelle Quinn | Posted 02.26.2008 | Business

Read More: Compact Discs, Wal-Mart, Apple, CD Sales, iTunes Music, Cds, Music Industry, Music Seller, Itunes, Digital Downloads, Best Buy, Business News

Nearly half of all teenagers bought no compact discs in 2007, accelerating the music industry's painful transition from CDs to digital downloads, acco...

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Start at the Beginning

Jermaine Dupri | Posted 12.05.2007 | Entertainment

Read More: Young Rich and Dangerous, Hip Hop, Rap, Jermaine Dupri, Rappers, Music Industry, Music, R&b, Entertainment News
Jermaine Dupri

I find that the new generation of go getters doesn't really wanna start at the bottom. They wanna start in the middle, at the very least. But the last time I checked, the definition of "start" was to have a beginning.

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Frank Sinatra And The Art Of The "360 Deal"

Tony Sachs | Posted 11.29.2007 | Entertainment

Read More: Record Companies, CD Sales, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Music Industry, Warner Reprise, 360 Deal, Napster, Entertainment News
Tony Sachs

A 360 deal is the labels' way of admitting that they can't pay the rent on record sales alone, and the artists' admitting that viral marketing and all that post-Napster stuff can still only take you so far.

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A Good Album is More than Just a Collection of Singles

Jermaine Dupri | Posted 11.19.2007 | Business

Read More: Itunes, Jay-Z, Music Industry, Jermaine Dupri, Radiohead, American Gangster, Business News
Jermaine Dupri

Every thing I produce is a product of me spending time with the artist and getting to know where his or her head is at.

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Where Do I Send The Money?

Susan Madrak | Posted 10.05.2007 | Entertainment

Read More: Music Industry, Illegal Downloading, Courtney Love, Entertainment News
Susan Madrak

Someone really is robbing musicians, and it's not who you'd think. That's why I would gladly donate $10 to this woman, and so would a lot of other people.

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Whatever Happened To The Super Audio CD?

Tony Sachs | Posted 09.12.2007 | Entertainment

Read More: Super Audio Compact Disc, Music Industry, iPods, Musical Snobbery, Entertainment News
Tony Sachs

If you can even find an SACD section in a record store today it'll be a row or two of obscure titles on audiophile labels that the average consumer could care less about. What happened?

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