DECONSTRUCTING THIS WEEK IN THE MUSIC INDUSTRY

Deconstructing This Week in the Music Industry

Posted on 23. 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.

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Amazon to Torrent site: stop letting your users buy our music - Another major retailer misses out on a great opportunity because of major label politics.

Can’t live with the major labels, can’t seem to get around them - How the majors are crushing important innovations in the music business.

This Week:

Is music’s long-tail really dead? Don’t count independent artists out of the online music game yet.

The unlikely Prince of indie. Some successful models from the biggest independent act of them all.

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.

Coldplay gives free live album to fans - and two reasons why this was a very smart move.

ReverbNation paying artists to give away free songs - but will it do more harm than good?

This Week in Music History:

1973, Jefferson Airplane were prevented from giving a free concert in Golden Gate Park when San Francisco authorities passed a resolution banning electronic instruments. The group later wrote ‘We Built this City’ about the ban.

Music History 101:

- The all-time best-selling album in the UK is The Beatles Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band with over 4.5 million copies sold.
- Tina Turner is listed in the Guinness Book of Records for selling more concert tickets than any solo performer in history.
- US guitarist Link Wray is credited with inventing ‘fuzz’ guitar in the 50′s after punching a hole in a speaker giving him a distorted sound.
- In 1988, Nikolas Hartshorne booked Nirvana to play at the Central Tavern in Seattle, the bands third ever gig. Six years later Hartshorne was the Medical Examiner at Kurt Cobain’s death.

Infamous Quotations:

“Lets face it, if I weren’t as talented as I am ambitious, I’d be a gross monstrosity.” Madonna
“We shall never tour America again. It’s very hard work, and one bring down after another. You have no idea how terrible it is” Keith Richards – 1967.
“It’s not funny when you’re actually getting shot, but afterwards, yeah, It’s funny.” – 50 Cent.
“I think rock and roll is media manipulation and exploitation and corruptness and bullshit.” – Sex Pistol, John Lydon, 1980.
“Woodstock wasn’t about anything. It was just a whole new market for tie-dye tee-shirts. All those people are in computers now.” – Bob Dylan.

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