Category Archives: business
MTV is teaming with Rhapsody for music discovery website
“This list is a pure hotness list,” Shannon Connolly, Vice President of Digital Music Strategy at MTV said in an interview with Wired.com. “We are intentionally presenting artists to the user that are high-ranking in velocity.” I’m not sure I … Continue reading
The Brains Behind Bieber
Billboard interviews Scott Braun. Braun is Justin Bieber’s manager. THR: What do you think is the biggest problem plaguing the music business right now? Braun: A lack of understanding that we’re no longer a music business. We’re a multimedia business. … Continue reading
No way – Business students cheat?
More than 200 students at the University of Central Florida have come forward to admit to cheating after their professor gave a lecture on ethics that has become a YouTube hit. I don’t want to get all stereotypical (I will … Continue reading
Amazon now sells watermarked MP3s
Wired previously reported that personally identifiable information wasn’t stored in Amazon’s MP3s. That doesn’t appear to be true anymore. I saw “Music file contains unique purchase identifier” on Kanye West’s brand new My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy released today for … Continue reading
The Talk Show: Michael Jackson and The Beatles
During Episode 17: Magic Flute of The Talk show John Gruber and Dan Benjamin spend some time trying to figure out who actually owns the rights to The Beatles music, eventually linking to this Snopes article and still not having … Continue reading
More Trouble at Emusic
Indie labels Domino, Merge, and The Beggars Group are pulling their catalog from eMusic. Something about terms. Nobody’s talking specifics. Download Service eMusic Unveils New Pricing Model, Indie Labels Jump Ship : The Record : NPR
Telecommunications company mysteriously shuts down offices
Regarding the recent closing of a call center (but I bet it’s a telemarketing company): Colwell & Salmon received a $1.3 million tax credit from Michigan in January for the expansion of a call center in that state, according to … Continue reading
Musicians, these are the people you’re trying to sell your music to
Transcribed: Why would anyone buy music from iTunes. They rip off the artist and the customer. 1.29 for a song. There are so many ways to get music without giving apple 70 cents for every song. Piratebay is the way … Continue reading
Taylor Swift will sell shitloads this year
From NPR: Taylor Swift, one of the music industry’s biggest money-makers, released a new album Tuesday. Her label is so confident that Speak Now will sell well that it’s shipped more than two million copies to stores. People who listen … Continue reading
Choice Paralysis
From Ted Eschilman’s column from the October 2010 Music Inc., comparing too many choices in a music store’s inventory to ordering sandwiches at Subway: The other day, I was standing in line behind two elderly grandparents with four little kids … Continue reading