4 posts and columns on Digital Music News

QOTD: Make Music For Fun, Not Profit

“Can you put food on the table with music? Probably not. I see music as a really great hobby for most people in five or 10 years. I see everybody I know, some of them really important artists, studying how to do other jobs.”

– Cake lead singer John McCrea talking to NPR, via Digital Music News. Showroom of Compassion, Cake’s most recent release, is the lowest-selling number-one album of all time.

QOTD: Why Your Favorite Band Is Trapped in MySpace Purgatory

“This puts MySpace in a strange void: It’s a site where nothing is happening, yet still cannot be ignored by bands.”

–Music manager Caren Kelleher in Digital Music News, explaining why her clients can’t leave MySpace even though Web surfers–and now, its corporate owner, News Corp.–are moving on, adding, “We’re sort of stuck with MySpace Music, whether we like it or not.”

What Are You Doing With Your Smartphone? Not Paying for Music.

in Media on June 8, 2010 at 12:40 pm PT

The music industry’s next big hope is pinned to your iPhone, or maybe your Android handset: A crop of companies, with various amounts of buy-in from the big music labels, think you’ll pay a monthly fee to listen to music on your smartphone. But that’s going to require a big change in customer behavior.

We Are The World! Sony, Michael Jackson’s Estate Working With iTunes, After All.

in Media on October 14, 2009 at 5:09 am PT

After Michael Jackson died, fans flooded iTunes to snap up his music. And contrary to an earlier report, “This Is It,” the singer’s final work, will also be sold by Apple this month.
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