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An awful lot of people, especially music fans over, say, 30, aren’t particularly eager to give up CDs, but they also like some of the advantages of the Internet digital jukebox, especially purchase-by-the-song (these used to be called “singles”). On Tuesday Starbucks will announce a new service where customers can …
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Walter Yetnikoff: “If You Have One Foot in Yesterday and One Foot in Tomorrow, You’re Going to Hurt Your Crotch”
Walter Yetnikoff was a classic music industry player, until it all went wrong...
Read More »Metallica to Sell Digital Downloads of Tour
Metallica is joining Phish, String Cheese Incident and many others in offering digital downloads of concerts: In a continuing effort to provide their fans with the most unique services, Metallica, along with technology partners CinemaNow.com and nugs.net enterprises, today announced the launch of a new Web site, www.LiveMetallica.com. The site …
Read More »Nattering On Norah
The NY Times is collectively pondering mightily the meaning of the million-selling success of Norah Jones’s new album Feels Like Home. First, in an unsigned editorial published yesterday, they spend most of their words trying to get around damning sweet Norah with faint praise: Norah Jones is a lovely young …
Read More »Norah and Grammys Spike Record Sales
Norah #2 has biggest first week of sales of any record in almost three years: Norah Jones’ “Feels Like Home,” the follow-up to her multiplatinum, Grammy-winning debut album, has sold over 1 million copies in its first week, the highest sales debut for an album since 2001. No act has …
Read More »RIAA: Racketeers?
A Rockaway, NJ, woman sued by the RIAA for file sharing has countersued on federal racketeering grounds: In what legal experts described as a novel strategy, [Michele] Scimeca is citing federal racketeering laws like the one that jailed mob boss John Gotti to countersue record labels that accused her in …
Read More »RIAA: 531 More “Johns” Kicked in the “Doe”
The RIAA continues its lawsuit campaign against alleged file sharers: The RIAA will file 531 “John Doe” lawsuits today (Feb. 17) against suspected users of illicit peer-to-peer file-sharing services. The suits will be bundled in five lawsuits and filed in federal courts in Atlanta, Philadelphia, Trenton, N.J., and Orlando, Fla. …
Read More »Don Henley: “Music Good, Industry Bad”
Don Henley lets the music industry have it with both barrels in a Washington Post editorial: When I started in the music business, music was important and vital to our culture. Artists connected with their fans. Record labels signed cutting-edge artists, and FM radio offered an incredible variety of music. …
Read More »Australian Assault on Kazaa Continues
More on Australian Kazaa raids begun last Friday: The man behind the raid is Michael Speck, the head of ARIA’s Music Industry Piracy Investigations (MIPI) unit. “We started an investigation six months ago and it was based on technical and physical changes in the infrastructure of Kazaa,” Speck said. ….Although …
Read More »Digital Music Forum
This forum got a very good reaction last year. It’s kind of expensive, but if you are in the biz, it could be well worth your while. If any of the Big Questions get answered, let me know. 4th Annual DIGITAL MUSIC FORUM March 1, 2004 New York City ABOUT …
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