HG recently posted a blog about the idea of success in the industry and how that concept should be reevaluated. I just got back from visiting our good friends over at Nimbit and had a great talk with the president, Phil Antoniades. We were discussing an artist we’re both familiar with, talking about how they [...]
Michael Jackson tends to remain the benchmark of success in the music industry. Selling over a billion dollars worth of one album is going to be tough to beat. We’ve come to a point in the industry, however, where one needs to re-think their idea of success. One can no longer realistically strive to sell [...]
The concept of direct-to-fan (D2F) is one of the more “right on” ideas that have arisen since the rise of Napster. Every successful artist at some point in his or her career has utilized the concepts in which the idea of direct-to-fan is based on. Nothing drives a fan to spend money more than having [...]
Let’s face it. The rise in technology is responsible for putting the music industry in utter chaos. The ability to download any album for free, both quickly and easily, forces musicians to re-think their view of what their music is worth. The major labels have proven what we already knew, which is that lawsuits are [...]
A wise man once taught me a perfect analogy to explain the issue of file sharing. I’ve put my small spin on it to make it slightly more entertaining: “Boatron”, a fishing company on the West Coast, was having a hard time keeping their boats from getting lost at sea. They simply couldn’t see the [...]