tragabigzanda wrote:
2. That "99% of revenues comes from 1% of artists" is highly suspect. Catalog/legacy sales still account for a HUGE portion of record labels' income. I don't know the current figures, but I'd wager that Michael Jackson / Peter Gabriel / etc are still bringing in a sizable portion of music revenues, while the Biebers and Minajes bring in a lot more from their 360 deals.
Peter Gabriel? Maybe. But I'd contend that those artists are still 1%-ers. When you talk about the number of artists keeping the industry afloat vs. the number of artists out there that currently generating product for a moderately engaged audience, 1% seems like a generous figure.
Re: Random Music News
Posted: Mon November 12, 2018 5:19 pm
by tragabigzanda
tragabigzanda wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:Top 10 maybe?
Hello Morning
Close Captioned
The Kill
Place/Position
Do You Like Me?
Latest Disgrace
Recap Modotti
Nightshop
Break
Life & Limb
I'd maybe bump Life & Limb for Epic Problem
Re: Random Music News
Posted: Mon November 12, 2018 5:30 pm
by tragabigzanda
Re: Random Music News
Posted: Mon November 12, 2018 5:44 pm
by Kevin Davis
Nice article, thanks for sharing.
I mean, I guess it makes sense when you think about it. First, it's not surprising that a sales-based model would skew in favor of artists who cater to fans who are used to consuming music according to that model. Second, it's probably easy to look at Adele and Taylor Swift's sales figures and not take into account the advertising dollars that go into getting cardboard cash-register displays of their CD's at every Walgreen's across America. Conversely, nobody's ad department had to spend a dime for Amazon's warehouse to run out of Prince, Bowie, Petty, and BB King CD's at various points over the last three years.
That said, the idea that a small number of artists -- compared to the total number of artists out there operating in some professional capacity, all of whom contribute to the landscape in some way -- generate a large percentage of total industry revenue does not seem suspect to me, and is probably truer now than ever as "middle class" artists (who previously could depend on at least a big MTV video and a crappy album that people would buy accordingly) are now operating in lower-tier arenas.
I love the story of Threatin, the metal band with thousands of fake fans on social media, currently playing shows where only two or three people show up
Turns out they went as far as creating fake record label and booking agency websites
The album, which has been inspired by Bryan’s work on the Sky Atlantic/Netflix television series Babylon Berlin - a German period drama based on the books by Volker Kutscher set in the 1920s, takes the musical stylings from that era and puts a new twist on well loved Roxy Music and Bryan Ferry tracks including ‘While My Heart is Still Beating’, ‘Sign of the Times’, ‘Bitter Sweet’ and ‘Dance Away’. The record breathes new life into songs that fans have been enjoying for over 20 years. Whereas Ferry’s previous album in this genre The Jazz Age consisted of instrumentals, Bitter-Sweet includes 8 vocal tracks.
Across the record Ferry embraces ragtime, blues, and jazz, and whilst they evoke nostalgia, hearing beloved songs in a fresh and exciting way gives the record an edge of modernity; jazz in the 1920s was the soundtrack of popular culture - itself a modern invention and it’s almost as if we’re hearing it for the first time.
Re: Random Music News
Posted: Fri November 30, 2018 9:27 pm
by tragabigzanda
Re: Random Music News
Posted: Wed December 12, 2018 12:05 pm
by Jorge
Spice Girl Mel B was rushed to hospital with broken ribs and ‘severed’ hand
How could anybody see that Threatin video and think they had any real money/label behind him/them?
Re: Random Music News
Posted: Thu December 13, 2018 1:54 am
by bune
Re: Random Music News
Posted: Thu December 13, 2018 11:26 pm
by epilogue
I WILL NOT
Re: Random Music News
Posted: Thu December 13, 2018 11:38 pm
by bodysnatcher
Aphex Twin is one of those super rare artists where I can absolutely fall in love with a song on an album, and immediately turn the album off during the very next track.
Re: Random Music News
Posted: Thu December 13, 2018 11:39 pm
by epilogue
I own one of his albums. I couldn't tell you a single thing about it.
