Slicing Apple Music – Part 1: Will It Kill Spotify?
As is now widely known, Apple Music is comprised of three key elements: iTunes – but on demand and in the cloud (a la Spotify), a...
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mramsey1
Oct 3, 2012
What Happened to Music FIRST?
And so the critically important fight over music rights fees wears on. Pandora lobbies in favor of the Internet Radio Fairness Act now...
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mramsey1
Sep 20, 2009
More Evidence the Music Industry is Run by Fools
It's one thing to get paid when someone plays or hears your song. It's another thing to get paid when someone plays or hears a sample of...
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mramsey1
Mar 6, 2008
Seth Godin on the future of the Music Business
I recommend you read this for yourself because it’s rather long, but what Seth is essentially saying is the salvation of the music...
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mramsey1
Feb 26, 2008
More bleak news for the music industry
From the news: NPD stated that around one million consumers decided to stop buying CDs last year, with teens leading the trend. According...
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mramsey1
Jan 20, 2008
Is this the death of the “Tipping Point”?
So says the argument of Duncan Watts. His case is the opposite of the Tipping Point argument which brought us the notion of mavens or...
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mramsey1
Dec 29, 2007
Music industry trends have a lesson for Radio
I have spent a lot of time studying the pictures in this post. The data illustrated here is not new, of course. We all know music sales...
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mramsey1
Dec 19, 2007
Look for higher music license fees, Radio
From Inside Radio: Months of jockeying became less theoretical and more literal yesterday, as bills were introduced in both the House and...
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mramsey1
Dec 9, 2007
The Music Business: A model for Radio NOT to follow
If ever there was a cartoon that said it all, this would be it. [from Music2.0]
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mramsey1
Nov 14, 2007
Recorded music sales hit the skids
Estimates eMarketer: Worldwide spending on recorded music will actually decline—falling from $31.8 billion in 2006 to $26.2 billion in...
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mramsey1
Jul 6, 2007
Music Industry Lies make Radio Industry Headlines
From Inside Radio: Think radio airplay helps drive record sales? Not so says University of Texas at Dallas Professor Stan Liebowitz who...
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mramsey1
Jun 18, 2007
Surprise! The music industry lies!
And they do it with research. Check the “media center” tab on the Music First Coalition website and you’ll see a glaring example of this....
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mramsey1
Jun 16, 2007
The Music Industry is Killing Itself
What’s the most important thing about music consumers that the music industry doesn’t know? With the recent effort of that industry to...
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mramsey1
Jun 13, 2007
It’s Time to Reduce Radio’s Music Rights Fees
From FMQB: musicFIRST Coalition Takes Aim At Radio Performance Rights A new coalition has been announced which will aim for fairness in...
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mramsey1
May 23, 2007
SoundExchange’s slippery slope
A very clever – and very smart – strategic move by SoundExchange. From Inside Radio: In an effort to appear not to look like they’re...
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mramsey1
May 21, 2007
“Music Industry Licensing to Provide Growth”
As I have been predicting for a long time, eMarketer today reports “Music Industry Licensing to Provide Growth.” As the article notes:...
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mramsey1
May 10, 2007
Here come the Music Industry pickpockets
From Inside Radio: NAB’s next defensive fight — against a “performance tax.” Language has mystical power in Washington and NAB boss David...
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mramsey1
May 8, 2007
The future of the music industry
Here’s a very cogent report on trends in the music industry summarized by eMarketer.com. The bottom line: – Between now and 2011, the...
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mramsey1
Oct 12, 2006
Do record labels lie?
Let’s suppose you’re a Christian station in a middle-sized Western market. And suppose you use a particular kind of online callout, the...
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mramsey1
Sep 4, 2006
The lesson of Tower Records
Remember when you were a student and Tower Records was the center of your universe? From that vantage point, how hard it is to believe...
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