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The True Reason For The Current Breakdown Of The Music Industry: Don't Mess With Art!

Somebody just asked me whether i’m intersted in helping him in marketing his music in the web, pointed to his myspace profile and asked me about my quality valuation. Here’s what i answered him: I’m not skilled to judge the … Continue reading

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My Guess: We Will Pay $3 For An Album – For Service Fee And Fairness

As the Digital Audio Insider suspects, Amazon is conducting a large scale experiment with prices for digital music downloads. For a single day, Opeth’s Still Life was only $1.99 and immediately boosted to position #3 on amazon’s best seller list. … Continue reading

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Long Tail Info Porn: Lil' Wayne vs. Regina Spektor

Did you know… …that the best selling album of 2008 – Tha Carter III from Lil’ Wayne -  sold 2.88 million copies and for the very first time since tracking album sales started under the current model in 1991, the … Continue reading

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Trying Out Spotify: I Like It, But I Wouldn’t Bet On Its Success

There is an ongoing buzz around Spotify – a new streaming music service from London – the latest news is that they closed a deal with CDBaby and thus grew their library by 1M tracks. That sounds great, so i … Continue reading

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What This Blog Is About: Read This NY Times Article

If anybody wonders what’s the real problem with the music industry, read this note from NYTimes’ Winter Miller. It’s a review of the new album of Rachael Yamagata, a New York singer-songwriter who recently published a wonderful double CD and … Continue reading

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