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 number-one album didn’t clear 3 million copies (mediapost.com) … but still, Lil’ Wayne alone… sold more CDs than
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If anybody wonders what’s the real problem with the music industry, read this note from NYTimes’ Winter Miller.
The new model is about starting an ongoing economic relationship with a community of fans.”
Sounds like a blueprint for my upcoming work.