Music Row Publisher David M. Ross has been covering the Nashville music industry for over 25 years.
Nashville, Tenn. [Press Release] – The Nashville Technology Council, area businesses, universities, and the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce, continued their joint effort yesterday to assist in connecting academic & [...]
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Overall consumer music acquisition increased by 6 percent in 2007, but average annual per-capita music spending fell by 10 percent
PORT WASHINGTON, NEW YORK, February 26, 2008 — According to The NPD Group, a leading provider of consumer and retail information, the amount of music that consumers acquired in the U.S. increased by 6 percent [...]
Tech remains a moving target: The CD is not the only entertainment format under duress as the NYT article below details; The Web 3.0 “What’s Next…” link not only takes some informed guesses about the future, it nicely summarizes present and past Web developments; and lastly Adobe brings the future today as it unveils a [...]
Five years ago this writer offered a plan, bravely titled Digital Manifesto, designed to insure the economic survival of record companies, artists, songwriters, publishers, producers, musicians and other creative members of the music industry. To be successful such a plan should be uncomplicated, require little or no enforcement and wholeheartedly embrace the consumer and technological [...]
Universal, Warner Bros. and Sony BMG have been holding back DRM-free license approval from iTunes while extending that approval to Amazon.com and some other startups. Only EMI has offered its music in DRM-free, MP3 format to both vendors. This marketplace inequality appears to be a punitive measure against Apple, for refusing to agree to label [...]
Attempts to promote and distribute albums online without the backing of a major record company shows that labels do have value.
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Regardless of how you spin it, the CD took a beating last year. Sales were down 15% overall and country—even with unexpected stocking stuffers like the Eagles and Garth Brooks —suffered its worst sales showing since 1991 when SoundScan history began. Nashville’s 2007 CD sales dropped 16.3% to a disappointing 62.7 million units.
The Economist recently [...]
Don’t you love those ATT wireless commercials that claim they will deliver “more bars in more places?” As much as I love having an iPhone, one must admit that the AT&T system has at least three dead spots in and around the Music Row area. Are you tired of dropping calls on 16th Ave. S.? Can you [...]
Following recent artist testimony on the issue at a Senate Judiciary Hearing, Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Orrin Hatch (R-UT) plus Representatives Howard Berman (D-CA) and Darrell Issa (R-CA) jointly introduced legislation that would compell AM and FM radio to compensate artists and labels when their performances are broadcast over the air.
