Global Friday Street Date
The final nail in the coffin, at retail, will be the new mandatory Friday street date, which should be implemented in a few months.
Streaming Propaganda
The propaganda that streaming can reach critical mass and bring money back to stabilization, then return it to its prior size, is absolutely false. Simple math can expose that. Streaming will never be able to pay the equivalent of recorded music’s mechanical, artist, or producer royalties. Nor will be able to be on par with…
Imagine Dragons will be #1
Tomorrow Imagine Dragons will be # 1 with about 170k. Now before everyone celebrates, I think it’s way low, based on sales to date of the last record. Way low considering the massive marketing push, including a very costly TV commercial during the Grammys. Way low with Drake right below them on his week #…
“Us Dinosaurs”
We talk about then and now, it always goes to “us dinosaurs”, then it goes into some babble about there is tons of music today, more than ever. However, I call bullshit on all of that. Let’s just center on the extraordinary talents of Gerry Goffin and Carole King. In particular, Carole King. Writing her…
Post Grammy Bumps
Post Grammy bumps are evident in today’s Soundscan with Beck getting the biggest % increase. Even with that, it is just 50k boost. Big numbers for today, but terrible when you think of the viewing audience size. In other sales, or lack thereof, news, Mark Ronson’s album is a tad past 60k total, while the…
Top 10 at T40
The top ten tracks at T 40 are: Mark “No one knows who I am, but they like the song and Bruno” Ronson Ed Sheeran, who I get, but don’t. Hozier. Bet you didn’t see him coming Meghan Trainor Taylor Swift Taylor Swift Pitbull, this guy will always pop up. Lilywood and Robin Schulz, I…
Barry Weiss
I am a HUGE fan of Barry Weiss, as you know. It will be very interesting to see which act is the first launch at his new label. He is a spectacular, old school executive with a real handle on the new as well.
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