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| From | "bob" <segarini@sympatico.ca> |
| Subject | Re: The Death Toll Rises In The War Against Music... |
| Date | Thu, 6 Nov 2003 17:34:43 -0500 |
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North American Radio has lost 74% of it's listenership in the last 13 years
because it chose to ignore it's core audience and go after a younger
demographic...Major Labels just spent the last 10 years catering to and
creating an audience that has no taste, is fickle to a fault, and has no
history of BUYING music.
This is just the beginning...think AM switch to FM...Rolling Stone replacing
Tiger Beat...and the Grammys honoring Louie Armstrong's "Hello Dolly"
instead of the Beatles, who had 14 records on the Billboard chart
simultaneously in March of 1964...
This is going to be fun...
bob
----- Original Message -----
From: "josh chasin" <jchasin@nyc.rr.com>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 11:28 AM
Subject: Re: The Death Toll Rises In The War Against Music...
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "bob" <segarini@sympatico.ca>
> >>>>>BMG, Sony Music plan to merge
> FRANKFURT (AP) -- Bertelsmann AG and Sony Corp. plan to merge their
> music businesses, Bertelsmann said Thursday.
> A merger of Sony Music Entertainment and Bertelsmann's BMG would
bring
> together the world's No.2 and No.5 music companies as the industry
struggles
> with losses blamed on music piracy. The world's No.1 music company
currently
> is Universal Music Group, a part of Vivendi Universal SA. >>>>>
>
>
> I think it is safe to say that one consequence of this merger will be that
> many artists will be dropped. That's been the pattern.
>
> I find it endlessly fascinating (not to mention arrogant and incompetent)
> that Big Music continues to consolidate and drop acts-- then blames US
when
> sales are down! You know what? I do not believe sales are down. I
believe
> that THEIR sales are down. Not really the same thing at all.
>
> I know I've gone through this rant before so I'll be brief. But when I
look
> at the % of my purchases 10 years ago through normal channels that would
be
> captured by Soundscan, versus today, the percentage is down dramatically.
> I'm still buying over 100 albums a year. I'm just not buying them from
the
> big 6-- I mean 5-- I mean 4 companies anymore. I still buy Aimee Mann and
> Jill Sobule and Prince; 10 years ago these artists had deals with these
> companies and I bought them through their distribution channels. Now I
buy
> them directly from the artists, either from their websites or at shows.
Or
> I buy them from laces like CD Baby and Not Lame (do Not Lame sales make
> SoundScan?)
>
> I am convinced-- some of you insiders may know better than me-- that the
> notion of piracy eroding sales is a total myth, because sales have not
> eroded. What is really going on is a shift in sales to non-major label,
> non-measured outlets. We aren't buying less; the RIAA membership is
selling
> less. Not the same thing. And shame on these companies for continuing to
> punish innocent music lovers for their own inability to turn that love
into
> revenues.
>
> That was as brief as I could be.
>
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