Mr. Stoute, I’ve never met you nor ever heard of you before last Sunday. I’m sure that you’re a very nice person with the best of intentions. I haven’t purchased an ad in any edition of the New York Times. I can’t afford it, but I’m glad that someone in the music industry can....
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Everyone by now has prognosticated on what the new Google music service will look like. It was going to be a subscription service, then it wasn’t, instead looking to acquire a service like Spotify, but that never was in the cards. It was going to allow users to share playlists. They supposedly want users...
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I can handle things! I’m smart! Not like everybody says… like dumb… I’m smart and I want respect! –Fredo Corleone So much has happened in the business lately that I thought it would be a good idea to give credit to those who have excelled in entertaining us…an acknowledgement of sorts to the biggest...
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I want to officially welcome Elio Leoni-Sceti, Ronn Werre and Sylvia Coleman of EMI to my little site. I was in London a couple of days ago with a friend and we just happened to bump into the three of them and I was introduced. They told me that they were avid readers so...
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In case you haven’t heard, Michael Jackson died recently, leaving behind a lot of debts, a custody battle over his kids, an estate that must look like a rubic cube and AEG Live holding the bag. I’ve know Brandon K (Randy) Phillips, president of AEG Live, for 30 years, when he was a piss...
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Here’s a really good one for you. Last week EMI sales reps started making calls to many if not all of their small accounts, mostly independent mom & pop stores, to tell them that they would no longer sell them product!!! Were these accounts bad payers? Nope. Would they not stock catalog or new...
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Many journalists have written about the lack of a business model for Twitter. It seems to boggle a lot of minds that Twitter has become so big and yet to make a nickel. In fact, many question the real usefulness of Twitter, finding the whole concept of Tweeting rather stupid. Remember when Stephen Colbert...
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God I know it may be getting old, but EMI just never fails to do stupid stuff to keep jerks like me interested. This time, they’ve started their own HR merry-go-round. Maybe musical chairs would be a better metaphor. A friend in London was telling me a crazy story. Everyone knows that EMI has...
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I know that I have been writing a lot lately about EMI. I know that it seems as though I’m beating up on them. But to paraphrase the great Willie “The Actor” Sutton’s response when asked why he robbed banks, “Because that’s where the money is”. Last week brought lots of news from the...
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