Today we're starting a series with songs that can be translated as good stories of - or advices/mindsets to the music business.
I heard the classic Warren G cover/remake of "What's love got to do with it" the other day. It was better than I remembered and to my big surprise was a great testimony of a greedy music biz.
First he is setting the scene by telling us about his first meetings with the music business and how they started to care only when his music started to sell:
"There's dollar signs ...Read More
We have been addressing the need of a toplist of what people are listening to on the internet before. In April last year I wrote about the problem with CDs still being a way to value what's serious or not. I ended it by asking for better collected statistics of internet music listening:
"I’m looking forward to an accurate internet chart that is transparent with what it’s measuring and what services is ranked the highest. The chart should be revised along with the rapid changes of the internet culture. Along with ...Read More
I was asked to write a comment on the Pirate Bay court case for the Swedish debate site Newsmill. Here is an English version:
I come back to it all the time, but it bears repeating. You must adapt to reality. It is doomed to fail to slavishly follow a map with roads that no longer exists. Even worse is if you miss the news that a highway was built next to the old gravel road you are driving on. Or, as in the case of music, at any price ...Read More
Sitting at Helsinki airport going thru my notes from the last couple of days. The Finnish music export organisation invited people from around the world to address the heart of the music business, the music, at it's new conferance Is this it?
Usually it's not that easy to interact with people you don't already know at this kind of events. But Musex was smart enough to borrow the successful format developed at the Transmission conference in Canada. At its core it's about talking to each other in the form of round ...Read More
I answered the question in the Swedish newspaper Sydsvenskan the other day. My answer was shorted quite a bit, so I thought it might be a good idea to present my full answer here. (Thanks to Google translate.)
Will Spotify be available in 2020?
Well, I’m not that sure. Spotify is a great service and has in many ways changed the way I, and many others with me, are listening to music – but it's far from the perfect music service.
Why? First of all, Spotify is to static. They must let the ...Read More
