Major labels are dumb to the max… Yikes

According to new information received from music industry insiders, it turns out that Spotify isn’t ripping off the artists, the labels are.

By allowing its users to access millions of songs for free, the music streaming Spotify has revolutionized the music industry by handing them a potential competitor to illegal downloading. – > Read full article on Torrent Freak.

Shucks, those crazy labels!

Ways around the “for profit” industry #1

“Brian McTear reports: Today, it’s plainly obvious that the music industry is in a terrible predicament; but the only solutions we hear have to do with saving “business”. Those of us who care about artists can only hope that once business is saved, this will trickle down to them somehow… eventually.” Check report here.

This is a neat look at how Weathervane Music sees the Music Industry and what they are doing to rectify the problem. Bit of inspiration, bit of musical revolution e.g. “We MUST come up with a model that works, not just for music, but for musicians themselves. This will require an almost heroic grass-roots ACTIVIST movement.” Hehe, go hard Brian McTear

Also, the website this is featured on, http://workbookproject.com/ is choice! check out what the founder of the site, Lance Weiler has been up to on his personal website. Pretty much what it’s all about.

Oh ok, so maybe people still pay for music after all.

THE GUARDIAN: ”It has been an unhappy few years for the music industry, hit by plummeting CD sales and rampant on line piracy. But there are signs that the worst may be over – research suggests the industry grew last year and is finding new ways of making money.” Read on!

Through diversity of revenue sources to compensate for the super-massive drop in CD sales, it looks like the British music industry is finding it’s feet once more.

Live shows are where most of the money is for bands, which I think is a rather nice and healthy state of affairs indeed.

 licensing deals from the likes of “Spotify“, a music streaming website, coupled with sponsorship deals from big business make up a quarter of the British industry’s revenue.

I don’t know if sponsorship deals are so great for artistry of music, but I guess those who wish to sellout need someone to sell out too.

Here's Take That, one hell of a band who are in a "partnership" with Marks and Spencer.

The pic I ripped off from here

 

 

Peace!