Posts by Simon Grigg
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ewww...this sort of thing must sting ARIA and APRA
The chief songwriter and producer of Australian dance music group Sneaky Sound System says digital music piracy isn't a major problem for popular artists because the vast majority of earnings come from playing live shows.
Angus McDonald made the comments at a launch event for Nokia's Comes With Music bundles. From next month the package will give people unlimited free music downloads from the Nokia Music Store for 12 or 18 months when they buy a Nokia phone.
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I just have a thing for Teremoana..
Same, but not that way. I've just always had a soft spot for both her and Danny. Nice folks and v. talented.
Increasingly the opinion seems to be FOAD gobby shite.
Had shockingly mixed reviews but my 14 yr old is a huge fan. This week anyway.
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In the case of Ms Allen it was a little bit smoke and mirrors. The real story is they way they used the net to create and market the story, not the story itself which didn't stand up to too much scrutiny.
If you wander through this interview Ms Allen, after denying that there were record company machinations, doesn't know who owns the boutique label she's signed too and tries to insist they'd never heard of MySpace.
That same ignorant label was doing things like this and this about the same time and had had a digital media division since 1998. EMI were the one label that kinda got it years ago.
Doncha love hype.
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anonymisers
vital if you have an Indonesian IP. American servers think we're all phishing terrorists
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but Snow Leopard is very much announced.
His response was 'we are the last to know'. I thought, yes the very last it seems.
But what I loved was the way you handed your purchase to a blue shirted guy wandering the floor. He ran your card through his handheld and then emailed you the receipt, taking a bag from one of the many podiums around the store. Purchase took a good 2 minutes maximum.
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How are the singles charts calculated in NZ these days?
Digitally...there are no more physical singles. The good old days are sadly gone and chart rigging, at least for singles has gone the way of the wax cylinder. The album charts though.....
Once they'd done that, the demand would lessen and sales would drop.
There's a lot of truth in that Mark but there are still genres that boomed until broadband became widespread and there were figures you provided that pretty much backed that.
The digital long tail is all very well but the real profit in catalogue comes from sync, advertising use, compilations and a multitude of other uses, none of which are much affected by downloading.
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tried to quiz a supposed Apple tech head about Snow Leopard at the 5th Ave Apple store two weeks back. He claimed complete ignorance of it, never heard of it, which both surprised and bemused me. I guess it was as yet outside his assigned compartment.
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so the industry stats say that there is more new stuff being sold (allowing for inflation) than, say, 25 years ago?
The ratio of new to old has tipped towards the older but I don't know the ratio. Certainly major labels' return from catalogue as a percentage has vastly increased but that began in the 1980s when they went to CD and found ways to recycle the past, digital just added another layer to that.
The money made from catalogue exploitation has become a very major part of the revenue earned by labels, easily, if not more, as important to the multinationals as new acts. And it's relatively easy cash..no artist development, videos or pesky management. Hence the rush to acquire catalogue in the 1980s and 1990s. I wonder how many times over Universal has recovered the $300m PolyGram paid for Motown?
Catalogue acquisition is what made Universal the biggest of all the majors and even if they stopped releasing new acts, which for a couple of the majors ain't outside the realms of possibility and has been much discussed, they'd still turn a hefty profit.
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Who is the video by?
dunno but it's very Kerry Brown-ish (but not him I'm pretty sure)
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For sure, although there was some fun in going and finding that old stuff when I were a lad.
[random thoughts] Yep, but things moved very very fast...think four years between Love Me Do and Tomorrow Never Knows for example, whereas much of what is being made in 2009 could be from 1999 (and much of course couldn't be). Nothing in 1966 sounded like it was made in 1956. 18 months from Anarchy in the Uk to PIL.
I do think the digital world has made us all very much more adventurous. 1970 didn't see the remastered Deluxe reissues of Glen Miller's albums with bonus tracks and such. I used to buy budget issues and second hand copies of old Little Richard and John Coltrane albums circa 1975 but it was regarded as rather freakish to do so, when there was a new ELP or Floyd album in the marketplace.
The ancient history the punks obsessed about in 77 was only 5-7 years old!
I love the way we can now draw, rather unashamably from whenever we want to create, and think most of the credit for that change comes from the worlds of hip-hop and electronic music. Technology and digital access just made it more accessible.