At Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 14:17:02 Bruce wrote:

> > In this week's Canadian Music Network magazine there were headlines 
>dealing
> > with Sony, Warner and EMI all whining that 3rd quarter sales were down. 
>On
> > the same page Amazon.com boasted record profits. Now these profits might 
>be
> > due to over-inflated price of goods, but chances are real good that 
>major
> > label losses due to downloading is fictitious. Josh just might be
> > right....the sales are coming from non-traditional labels through
> > non-traditional distributors.

[snip]

>No offense, Jaime, but tell that to the 1,700 Sony folks losing their job 
>in
>the coming months here in the US. And all the others who continue to lose
>their jobs in the music business weekly and have over the past three  
>years.
>Sure,it's changing and majors have been raping their customers for too 
>long,
>but these people are not losing their jobs because these companies want 
>them
>to go away like a bad hair day.    Numbers are down w/ a majority of folks
>in *all* sectors of the music industry......retail, labels - large and
>small(but plenty of indies *are* having very good years), distributors, one
>stops, concert venues and promoters and, of course, along w/ all
>that......the gross dollars that artists are earning.

[snip]

No offence taken, Bruce. Your response is valid and filled with a lot of 
realistic barometers of what the biz is facing. And as you and I have 
discussed often, Not Lame has been hit hard in the last 18-24 months. I 
completely understand. To wit:

Bullseye has just come out of a slump (basically from March until August) 
because we didn't have national distribution. Now it's back....and, since 
September, we've sold more CDs than our previous distributor sold all of 
last year!!

But...these are pre-Xmas sales and we'll know in January if the product is 
going end up back in our lap.

And yet, on-line sales and exports were up during our slump period....which 
is how we survived that hick-up.

Hang in there, Bruce...when the smoke clears I hope to see you and the many 
other pop labels still standing.

Bless.

Jaimie Vernon,
President,
Bullseye Records of Canada, Inc.
http://www.bullseyecanada.com
"Not Suing Our Customers Since 1985!"

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