Today is the day. Halloween. The Amazing Grace Baptist Church in Canton, NC will be celebrating the holiday with a book and music burning. Fox News broke the story last week and it has since been picked up by other media outlets. Here’s the story:
A statement on the church’s website (which is now back up) [...]
David Murray has created what I think is a useful discussion about the decreasing number of dominating radio singles in the Singing News radio charts (here and here). I would just add a couple more “reasons” for this (before I take off from his discussion). We have now half as many radio stations and less [...]
There are so many valuable sources now about new music business analysis and idea creation, it is hard to keep up. For those of you who may have missed them and may want to see, here’s a few that I’ve found useful and interesting. (And if you notice the “full story” dates, some aren’t even [...]
So. We all thought the “album” was dead. P2P networks and iTunes, we thought, had consented to the consumer preference for songs over albums. Now Apple and it’s major (secular) label partners are trying to walk it back.
For $10,000 per title, a major label can buy the opportunity to force consumers to buy album-only [...]
The Future Of Music Coalition held a convention in Chicago this week. An attendee and writer for CNET News, Mat Rosoff, penned an article for CNET entitled “Selling CD’s Is No Way To Make A Living.”
Here’s an excerpt from his article:
“According to a report in the Chicago Tribune, a speaker at the Future of Music [...]
(Hat Tip – KK) ASCAP, one the performing rights policemen, is suing AT&T for a different kind of cut of ringtone revenues. It seem that every time your cell phone rings and plays part of an ASCAP song, it should be considered a “performance” and ASCAP should get paid. If the suit were to be [...]
Someone in the Perry’s camp is on it. Monday night they streamed an event “live” on the internet from Gatlinburg. A couple of weeks ago, videos were posted all over the internet of a song performed at Kyla Rowland’s event in Sevierville. Libbi has been “posting” stuff for their fans on Facebook several times a [...]
