Music Business Finally Rebounding? January 5, 2012
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Every January, Nielsen SoundScan releases an annual report on the music business for the prior year, and every year in recent memory, the numbers have sung the same sad song: overall music sales are down, again, as piracy and other factors chip away at the industry’s sales numbers. This year, however, there’s a glimmer of hope. For the first time since 2004, overall music sales are up. It’s an incremental improvement–album sales edged up 1.4% to 330.57 million units from 326.15 million in 2010–but it’s an improvement nonetheless, especially compared to the 13% dip in total album sales from 2009-2010.
“Now that the final numbers are in, it’s official that the music industry has a significantly positive year in the record books for the first time in seven years,” said Jim Donio, president of music business association NARM, in an email. “This year’s results can be attributed to a variety of influences, including more aggressive marketing efforts and offers, availability and consumer adoption of legitimate digital commerce models, the power of social media, etc.” (more…)
Road Returns December 10, 2011
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Any year in touring that includes the figure $736,421,586 can only be considered a good year for business. That mind-blowing sum is the final tally for U2‘s historic 360° tour, a three-year behemoth that shattered preconceived notions (and capacities) for stadium shows, forever changed the paradigms of concert production and moved more than 7 million tickets around the globe.
WTF? December 10, 2011
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They are ramping up the usefulness and utility of this irritating little app, but you might as well get up with it because it looks like it’s gonna be the way to keep up with the news, views and crews on the web ether…here’s the full on skinny of what and who it am … TWITTER
November 27, 2011
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The Jungle casts an eye on the last half-century of gadgetry wonders from the world of music. Recently a true musical legend died. This week a true musical tech legend turned 30. The Sony Walkman will be celebrating its anniversary in a world that it has not only dramatically helped shape, but one in which its name still lives on strong as a bastion of the digital music revolution. Without a shadow of a doubt, Sony’s portable music box altered the way we think about and enjoy music forever, and such an achievement has got us thinking about all the other innovations in music that should be celebrated and revered with just as much gusto. Thus, we’ve compiled a VIEW of the top innovations in music tech over the last 50 years. As Friedrich Nietzsche once said: “Life without music would be a mistake.” CLICK FOR THE LIST.
We are impressed…new guitar next! November 23, 2011
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Check Out The Makerbot, A Cool 3D Printer…What if you need a hair comb, and it’s too late or cold to go out and buy one? Wouldn’t it be cool if you could just make one at home? The guys at Makerbot Industries have a solution for that. Though it takes a certain kind of smarts. Their Cupcake CNC 3D printer is a rapid prototyping machine that costs $750, and can be assembled by anybody. We went down to their factory in Brooklyn, NY to check it out.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/because-2d-printing-is-so-2005-2009-11#ixzz1eWYdyCKr
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Things Ya Gotta Have November 22, 2011
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Having a printer that churns out photos are a snap – but how many of us actually bother to purchase a 
portable photo printer for that purpose? The £119.99 Photo Cube Smartphone Printer comes into mind here, where it will rely on dye sublimation to deliver high quality prints which will certainly be able to rival those photo printing kiosks that you insert your memory card from a camera or phone into and get your favorite images out. It does not matter whether you are printing them straight from your iPad, iPhone or Android-powered device, it will still be able to get the job done.
Of course, don’t expect it to churn out anything more than glossy 6 x 4″ prints, as you have to bear in mind that this is a device that measures a highly diminutive 17.5cm x 15cm, making it far smaller compared to the average home printer. (more…)
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To Know Them Is To Love Them November 20, 2011
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In 1960 to 1963 Gibson changed the body of the Gibson Les Paul standard to an SG type body with two symetrical pointed horns or cutaways. They had thinner necks and were called the Gibson SG Les Paul Standard model. Some prototypes were made in late 1960 with “Les Paul Model” on the peghead, but they were officially produced and sold in 1961 at a list price of $310 with crown peghead inlays. The guitar had two humbuckers (PAF), a Les Paul logo on the truss rod cover, side-pull vibrato, mahogany body, cherry red finish, a small black pickguard covering about 1/5 of the body, and had trapezoid inlay blocks on the fingerboard. In 1962, some models had inlaid ebony blocks on the tailpiece. In Late 1963, they had Gibson maestro vibrolas (lyre-style covers) and Gibson took out the Les Paul logo on the truss rod, made the necks a little larger and better built, and renamed the guitar the Gibson SG Standard: (more…)
Music For Nothing and Your Fans For Free… October 31, 2011
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Best Books…Best Prices October 29, 2011
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Get over to Dasa, the best secondhand bookshop in Bangkok. They offer over 16,000 books in many languages. You can download a complete list of their books on the DasaBase page.
And Yes, they are open ! (more…)
New Rules For The Music Industry October 27, 2011
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FOR THE MUSIC INDUSTRY:
1) BE TRANSPARENT – No more hiding behind complex royalty calculations. Man up. Be honest. Provide clear and accurate accounting. The digital world makes it easier than ever to do this. This applies to labels, distributors, ASCAP, BMI, SESAC and anyone else you can think of. They can all be transparent if they choose to be. Right now they choose not to be.
2) PAY ON TIME! – No more artificial royalty accounting periods. Returns and co-ops are a thing of the past. Pay out and account on one way no return sales that you have been paid in the same month you get them. The only reason to hold on to the money is to make bank interest on it. If this is what you are going to do, see #1, BE TRANSPARENT and tell artists you are doing this. (more…)
