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Each week industry veteran Celia Hirschman considers the changes and trends happening in the music business. An independent consultant for the music business she founded the marketing consulting company Downtown Marketing and also runs the UK-based record label One Little Indian in North America. She works with artists such as Bjork The Twilight Singers Lloyd Cole Daniel Agust Polly Paulusma and many others and has served in senior management at Palm Pictures Mercury Records and A&M Records.
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Unintended Consequences
from KCRW's On the Beat on May 14, 2008
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Gnarls Barkley had to rush-release their new album, to avoid having it leaked on the web. In fact, so did The Racounteurs. And EMI invited some of their biggest retail customers to a Coldplay listening-party, but confiscated all the Blackberrys and cellphones before the guests were allowed in the room...
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State of the Marketplace '08
from KCRW's On the Beat on May 07, 2008
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This week, music retailers joined together in San Francisco for the 50th annual trade conference, to discuss the state of their record business...
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Games People Play
from KCRW's On the Beat on April 30, 2008
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Here we are, one day after the release of Grand Theft Auto IV. One more day where millions will rationalize killing, humiliating and degrading people, as a legitimate form of entertainment...
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Time to Organize Recording Artists
from KCRW's On the Beat on April 23, 2008
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This week, an independent study of Internet users published in the New York Times, found that only 42% paid for their music --- either by buying a CD, or buying a download. The other 58% of the American population engaged in peer-to-peer downloading, or burning tracks from others CD---s, or ripping tracks from their friends computers. Those options offer no financial compensation for the musicians--- work...
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Time to Organize Recording Artists
from KCRW's On the Beat on April 23, 2008
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This week, an independent study of Internet users published in the New York Times, found that only 42% paid for their music – either by buying a CD, or buying a download. The other 58% of the American population engaged in peer-to-peer downloading, or burning tracks from others CD’s, or ripping tracks from their friends computers. Those options offer no financial compensation for the musicians’ work...
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Time to Organize Recording Artists
from KCRW's On the Beat on April 23, 2008
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This week, an independent study of Internet users published in the New York Times, found that only 42% paid for their music – either by buying a CD, or buying a download. The other 58% of the American population engaged in peer-to-peer downloading, or burning tracks from others CD’s, or ripping tracks from their friends computers. Those options offer no financial compensation for the musicians’ work...
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Makin' Bacon
from KCRW's On the Beat on April 09, 2008
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The big news this week was that iTunes beat Wal-Mart as the #1 music retailer. It's pretty amazing, considering Wal-Mart is the largest employer in America and iTunes probably only has a few hundred people working in Cupertino. Welcome to the digital economy. Selling music direct to consumer with minimal labor costs is rapidly becoming the new face of retail. The number three retailer in music is Best Buy and number four is Amazon. Watch that number go up in the next few months...
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Makin' Bacon
from KCRW's On the Beat on April 09, 2008
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The big news this week was that iTunes beat Wal-Mart as the #1 music retailer. It's pretty amazing, considering Wal-Mart is the largest employer in America and iTunes probably only has a few hundred people working in Cupertino. Welcome to the digital economy. Selling music direct to consumer with minimal labor costs is rapidly becoming the new face of retail. The number three retailer in music is Best Buy and number four is Amazon. Watch that number go up in the next few months...
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