Posted in Music Culture, tagged Best of 2008, Editorial Review, Music, Music Industry, Music review, Rolling Stone, Twitter on December 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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Yesterday, I shared Rolling Stone’s Top Albums of 2008 on Twitter, and this was my Tweet: “so Rolling Stone has their top Albums of 2008 up. This is why editorial reviews are a thing of the past. http://twurl.nl/p04sx5.” A Tweetmate suggested I write a blog post and expand on my comment. [...]
Posted in Music, tagged American Music Award, Grammy, MTV Video Music Awards, Music, music award, music award shows, Music Industry, VMA on September 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Does anyone care about music award shows? Last night, I chose to watch Monday Night Football, with the Chicago Bears surprising the Indianapolis Colts in a 29-13 victory, instead of the MTV Video Music Awards. I just didn’t think I was going to miss much, so tolerate stupidity and the “return” of BS aka Britney [...]
Posted in Music Industry, tagged Arts and Entertainment, Compact Disc, File sharing, Gene Simmons, Kid Rock, last.fm, MP3, Music, Music Industry, Universal Music on June 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The music industry continues to point fingers at the very people that keep it breathing. Yesterday, Timesonline published an article reporting the continued decline of music sales caused by the drastic decline in CD sales. Members of the music industry continue to blame peer-to-peer file sharing. As the transition from CD buying to MP3 downloading [...]
Posted in Music Industry, tagged Music Business, Music Consumption, Music Industry, Music Listening on May 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
WIRED’s The Listening Post published an article last week that offers 5 solutions that were proposed by The Leading Question and Music Ally. Here are the five major points:
1. Music needs to be bundled with other products and entertainment packages: Value can be created from many other ways than consumers simply buying the occasional [...]
Posted in Music Business, tagged Music Industry, RIAA on May 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It is well-known that the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has been trying to protect the major music labels for years. Let’s take a moment to recall the RIAA going after a 12 year old, and most recently a homeless man. With an economic recession looming (and record sales likely to continue falling), the RIAA is continuing to seek solutions to protect the industry – now going after universities:
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