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"Brave New World" (was: Re: The Police on Tour)
On 16 feb 2007, at 15.10, RICK WALKER wrote:
> The major labels have gotten so greedy
That's a rather strong statement for posting on a list and since I
think it's incorrect I have to object. I would say that what has
happened are gradual cultural changes that affect peoples consumer
attitudes and habits in away that causes a shrinking headroom for
record labels to make profits. I base this opinion on my own
experiences as having worked with both major and indie record labels
in many contries, as a musician and as a fronting artist.
> ..the whole MP3 phenomenon is really taking a huge toll on CD sales.
I think this is also an incorrect analysis. CD sales go down because
people now buy other things than CD's, while still having about the
same amount of monthly disposable money in their pockets. We now buy
computer games, VHS movie, DVD movies, iPods, cell phones... you name
it. A second important factor is the gradual diversification of
culture. In music this manifests in hundreds of genres where we used
to have just about a handful. We have already passed the line where
it became impossible for a record label to employ an A&R that could
spot and sign "the artists that will become successful in his/her/
their genre". Either because it is too difficult (for an A&R) to stay
on top of many simultaneous sub cultures or simply because that
specific genre will explode into other sub genres before enough time
has been given the record label to do all the promotion work needed
to break the artist (but as implemented in Josh post, artist may
well break today on their own, as an effect of the internet).
The rest of Ricks post was excellent as usual and inspiring as well.
It's exciting to see where this new networking digital life will lead
us.
Greetings from Sweden
Per Boysen
www.boysen.se (Swedish)
www.looproom.com (international)
http://tinyurl.com/2kek7h (latest music release)