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Getting Your Fans’ Undivided Attention

Of the 13m songs available for sale on the internet last year, more than 10m failed to find a single buyer and only 173,000 of the 1.23m available albums were ever purchased – leaving 85% without a single copy sold [source].  Established artists are touring constantly to compensate for their recorded music sales deficit and [...]

Rock Music for Rocket Scientists and NASA Engineers

Built By Snow is one of the most interesting bands I have heard for a while and their EP “Noise” has been running constantly on my iPod for the last two weeks. Following in the footsteps of Weezer, these guys have great style and have just released a new video for their song “Underneath”. [...]

DeepRockDrive Public Launch Today

[Originally posted on the Virv.tv Blog]
After several months of successful “socialcasts”, DeepRockDrive has its public launch today, coinciding with the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
DeepRockDrive.com is an online concert venue created by Danny Socolof, a veteran music marketer, and Jeff Henshaw, formerly on the X-Box team at Microsoft. With it’s own private soundstage [...]

What’s Peter Gabriel Been Up To?

Peter Gabriel, although under the radar for some time now, is very much in the spotlight when it comes to his contributions to new music business models.  I discovered Gabriel about twelve years ago when I heard the 1989 Passion soundtrack to Martin Scorsese’s widely criticized and rather long winded adaptation of the 1951 novel, [...]

Prince in the Tabloids: Album Giveaway in the UK

Prince angered British music retailers with a promotional distribution deal that will make his latest album, “Planet Earth”, worthless for traditional CD stores in the UK, a sector in the music industry already facing rapidly declining CD sales.

Last Sunday, The Mail on Sunday, a British tabloid with an estimated 2.9 million copies sold, packaged “Planet [...]

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