Been posting this story before, Hypebot has the updates.
1. Sony BMG Pink Slips Up To 70 Execs
2. Universal Starts Cuts With Island Def Jam
Hope the new label models can benefited by this.… Read the rest
Category: music industry
Executive Layoffs at Major Label
There has been rumor (a truemor?) that SonyBMG will lay off some of its executives due to its lack of profitability in the 2007 fiscal period.
If they’re creative enough, perhaps there will be a number of exodus from slow … Read the rest
Huge Problem in Music
There’s a cool calculation on how much musicians will earn by signing with record label by Steve Albini at Negativland site here.
Been there done that.… Read the rest
Music Industry is in Deep S**t
I’ve posted the news that Universal had successfully hold down Nine Inch Nails’ remix site. But apparently, 2 days after that, NIN launched their own remix site. Cool.
Trent Reznor also posted a link to New York Magazine’s Vulture … Read the rest
Sales Down on Recording Music
Here’s a study that indicates a rock band is becoming a rock brand. It was started actually from the beginning of the century where punk rock bands started to sign endorsement deals with boardriding related clothing and/or combining record deal … Read the rest
Who Will Criticize The Criticism?
I read some music blogs lately which I found interesting at a first glance. So I subscribed to their feeds and days later found them actually stinks. Yeah, I’m sorry but these once cool blogs are just pulling criticism to … Read the rest
Great Music Never Comes For Free!
Here’s why Trent Reznor is one of the coolest people in the world:
Trent was in China with his band NIN for a Music Festival. In recent interview with Music2dot0, he stated that NIN fans in China (and maybe all … Read the rest