Sharpay Adamson

Finally, my views on this don’t contradict those of others who believe that the music business needs a new business model to adapt to changing times. In all likelihood, new models in combination with penalties for piracy will be more effective than either approach alone.

Fred Moolten

“So what’s my point? Owning a “right”, which is a form of “Imaginary Property”, is not the same as owning real property. If someone violates your exclusive rights, they may be breaking the law, but they are not stealing. To claim otherwise is silly and dishonest.”

It seems that many posters here also believe that the grocery store is where food comes from. They also believe that music comes from a USB port. Chalk it up to our excellent education system…

Get a life. Grow up. Recognize the tremendous amount of hard work and massive amounts of money it takes to make and keep an artist popular.

I’m NO fan of the music industry and its ways, but to just say “I’ll just steal music because the music industry is corrupt and rock stars already have too much money” is complete idiocy.

And one more thing. All this “digital distribution” crap is overrated and nonsense. Can someone please provide the name of one — just one — MTV, Grammy artist that started with Garageband and became famous? Just one is all I ask. They’ve been promising that “equalized” crap since the very first Music website came on the scene and the only thing that has happened is that most of those “industry equalizing” sites are road kill.

Its just a matter of time before artists go direct to the users.

What are record companies anyway? They are just organizations which help produce, distribute and market music that they think will bring them money.

Musicians are people who do what they want and do it from the heart.

Listeners and fans are people who listen to what they like.

Get it, record companies don’t have a place in the future. Low cost or free digital distribution will take their place. Sorry.

“that in the heyday of Napster, if record companies had agreed to charge just a nickel a download, they would have been splitting $500,000 a day, 24 hours a day, 52 weeks a year.” source

Congrats to the music industry, they have made half a day’s profits of a nickel a song on Napster, I people say their business model is dead…

1. more touring, less musical BS…i can dream….

2. to stop being wrong.

Thanks for the stats about tours. I guess I was taking a short view of the whole situation.

Cheers!

http://paulbuch...-right-was.html

Just a quick clarification – a vast majority of Americans do not go to concerts. Check out this link from Michael Rapino’s speech at the annual Pollstar convention. Rapino is CEO of the largest music promoter (LiveNation). He states that over 70% of people never go to a concert and most that do, only go to one show a year. Overall spend on concerts is “miniscule”.

http://www.poll...2006keynote.htm

Most Top 40 listeners, averaging 5-14 year old boys and girls but off course can go up to an infinite age, it’s music for anyone who likes catchy, non-deep music. They want something to dance to in the clubs. They buy the music for the artist as a whole, the package. They couldn’t care less if the song has a message or some deep innate feeling, hence all the pop artists being styled all the time, photoshoots, bla bla. These people want into that image. They also do tend to go to concerts, but just the “arena” concerts for big spectacle shows. These are the consumers who won’t let Top 40 die and they far outweigh the other 2 groups.

The “indie” group are more concerned with their “real” music and listen to the songs for a message and couldn’t care less if the music was cool or not. These listeners would go to the middle of a forest for a campfire performance from their favorite artist.

And the third group just don’t like music… for some reason totally unbeknown to man.

The point I’m trying to get to is that it is impossible for top 40 to fall out because there will always and forever be that need for that 5-14 year age group and there will always need to be something to dance too.

Seriously, Ars Technica said that the jurors did not want to talk to the media. I think it’s that the only word the jurors knew was “Derrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Guilty”

“pop” music is driven by a corporate plan that goes like this: hire a songwriter. Hire four white guys / 3 white girls and 1 black girl / 4 black guys. buy a keyboard with a drum machine. teach the “artists” to sing the songs the writer wrote. use pro tools to make them sound good. teach them to dance. buy white pants. teach them to sing and dance at the same time. get great haircuts, apply makeup and teeth whitener. go to J14 and TigerBeat photo shoot. Sign autographs. tour the country and charge $21 a CD. high school girls go wild. The labels make about 93% of every dollar sold.

This has gone on for years. Why will it stop now? when the CDs stop selling, the boy bands will not be economically viable for the major labels, and maybe real talent will diffuse into the culture. maybe. It’s something I hope for, and that is why I’m in support of “free” CDs. (Though i am one of the losers who still buys CD for the liner notes and also I like being able to hold something I bought). I’m not an economist [similar to george bush] but I know that if bands are losing money on record sales, they are recouping it through tour. If no one wants to see a band, then that means there’s no demand because a) that band sucks, or b) Jenny is right and no one wants to see non-jazz bands play. and bands wouldn’t tour, they’d all lose money and die. And then they can’t buy heroin. Case closed.

I’m pretty sure it will be option a.

**On another note, everyone goes to concerts. Literally everyone. I think that if you haven’t been to a concert in a year, then a) you live in montana or b) your taste is so eclectic that not one band you like goes on tour. Personally, I love live music and I think millions of people would love to be able to see their favorite bands live if they just came around more often.

sorry for the long post.