Comments on: Is Music’s Long Tail Really Dead? http://www.creativedeconstruction.com/2009/05/is-musics-long-tail-really-dead/ save the music - not the industry. Mon, 08 Nov 2010 23:35:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: jayrope http://www.creativedeconstruction.com/2009/05/is-musics-long-tail-really-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-441 jayrope Tue, 19 May 2009 16:55:47 +0000 http://www.creativedeconstruction.com/?p=362#comment-441 I cannot but agree, especially on your conclusions. In my own experience traditional media and major labels had built up an infrastructure, that dominates sales by working together exclusively. They could survive, if they'd be open enough to look at all the wonderful new music (let's mention Animal Collective's recent album success here) and support it the same way they did with their traditional product. I would assume, though, that this gap will be left open for all of us to explore, get fascinated, network the good things and eventually take the risk to prefinance something the world would want to discover, if a sufficient infrastructure would tell it to listen. Well, good luck, then. I cannot but agree, especially on your conclusions.
In my own experience traditional media and major labels had built up an infrastructure, that dominates sales by working together exclusively.
They could survive, if they’d be open enough to look at all the wonderful new music (let’s mention Animal Collective’s recent album success here) and support it the same way they did with their traditional product.

I would assume, though, that this gap will be left open for all of us to explore, get fascinated, network the good things and eventually take the risk to prefinance something the world would want to discover, if a sufficient infrastructure would tell it to listen.

Well, good luck, then.

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