Plenty of debate has been swirling around Chris Anderson’s notion of the “Long Tail,” including Marc Fisher’s Washington Post column. Fisher posits that audiences still crave “hits” and that musicians (like other creative people) will always strive to reach the…
What’s the Real Value of a Song? Free Downloads and Sponsored MP3s.
For years, I have written and lectured about how your songs (as downloadable MP3s) are your very best promotional vehicle. They contain value themselves, but making the process of getting them into your fans’ iPods and CD changers is where…
The University of Pennsylvania is a Libra, and Does Not Want Kids
You know the whole MySpace thing is out of hand when Ivy League universities have their own profiles.
links for 2006-08-29
Wired looks at Nettwerk’s Terry McBride (tags: musicbusiness) Free Song Download: Weird Al Yankovic Comes Out With Song & Animated Film Parody of RIAA : “Don’t Download This Song” (tags: musicbusiness) Names, Numbers & Big Breaks If you’re waiting for…
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22 Lessons from Wayne Dyer (tags: powerfulthought)
links for 2006-08-25
Taylor Hicks sues former producer for selling old songs on iTunes (tags: musicbusiness) Meet Some Of My MySpace Friends, errr… Spammers (tags: myspace) Beck Makes the Infinite Album Todd Rundgren did this, too. Just about a decade too soon.
Blogging’s light, because… well… look at this.
Multimedia message Originally uploaded by spinme. I’m working on location with a client this week in a beautiful part of the country. California, to be exact, and that’s Lake Tahoe in the distance. No broadband where we’re at, so I’m…
links for 2006-08-24
Singing in the shower was never meant to come to this (tags: gadgets) “I cannot believe the future of music is giving it away” | Digital Copyright Canada (tags: musicbusiness)
links for 2006-08-23
Cut rate downloads won’t stop piracy (tags: piracy downloads) Tower Falls (tags: tower+records) Indie Music Industry – Radio, It Aint What It Used To Be (tags: musicbusiness) PODCAST: Gerd Leonhard on why attention–not content–is king (tags: musicbusiness) The Way It…
Internet Buzz Is Not the Same as Street Buzz
I was helping to produce a seminar for musicians at the front end of the MySpace explosion — this was a few years ago — and a band pitched a booking agent at the event by saying, “we’ve already got…
Selling Tickets to Your House Concerts or Special Events
Readers of Host Your Own Concerts know how I advocate advance ticket sales as a great way to guarantee attendance at your next gig. eTickets.to is a new UK-based service that’s offering flat-rate ticketing, and seems to offer the same…
links for 2006-08-22
Cut rate downloads won’t stop piracy (tags: piracy downloads)