Deconstructing the Week in Music

Posted on 30. May, 2009 by refe in MUSIC INDUSTRY

Here’s a recap of what went on in the music industry this week. Make sure to check out anything you might have missed and leave your comments. Thanks to This Day in Music for the music history.

Most Popular:

Why the Music Industry still needs Taste-Makers - With so much new music flooding the system listeners are dying for someone to tell them who to listen to.

Why your band needs Booking and PR before Management - The first in the Back to Basics series, learn what you need to do before looking for a band manager.

This Week:

It didn’t work for 8-Track – Why we should stop clinging to CDs and embrace the Digital Market - When innovation changes the game the only real response is to adapt.

Tunecore and Amazon offer Cheap On-Demand CD Distribution - Great idea, but is this service right for your band?

Memorial Day Video Pick - A little Ben Folds ‘Army’ to get you in the mood.

ReverbNation Paying Artists to give away Free Songs - Some successful models from the biggest independent act of them all.

This Week in Music History:

On this week in 2005 Coldplay’s new album was leaked onto the Internet a full week before its official UK and US release. This occurred when copies were sent to UK radio stations and the day before it went on sale in Japan. This was in spite of security measures around the release which included hosting album playbacks at Abbey Road studios for journalists instead of sending them copies of the album, and any CDs that were sent out were labelled with a false name – The Fir Trees – to throw would-be pirates off the scent.

Music History 101:

- John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote 295 songs together.
- Pink Floyd hold the record for the longest stay on the UK Top 40 album chart with “Dark Side Of The Moon.” A total of 364 weeks never reaching the No.1 position.
- Keith Moon is said to have named Led Zeppelin when an early version of the band was being discussed that would have had himself, along with John Entwistle on bass, Jimmy Page on Guitar, and an undecided vocalist, as members; he stated the potential supergroup would “go down like a lead Zeppelin”.
- The most expensive music video ever made is “Scream” by Michael and Janet Jackson, which cost $7 million to make in 1995.

Infamous Quotations:

“I choose to have one foot in the modern world and one in the past.” Beck 1997.
“I always smudge my lipstick nudging the microphone with my lips.” – Robert Smith, The Cure. 1987.
“Rock ‘n’ roll is like pulling back your rib cage and showing people your heart. It’s not about wearing the right shoes.”- Bono, 1997
“I haven’t got the patience for a rock opera. I’m focused on verse, chorus, verse chorus, middle eight, guitar solo, verse chorus, fade it out.”- Noel Gallager, Oasis.

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