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p2pnet.net news:- A huge crack has appeared in the corporate music industry’s anti-p2p wall. And opening it is beleaguered Sony BMG which has clearly decided its salvation lies in the maxim, If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em.
“Boardroom splits, a European Commission competition inquiry and a loss of market share have left the company reeling after its 2004 creation from the merger of Sonys and Bertelsmann’s record labels,” says The Times Online.
Sony BMG is also still being forced to suffer heavy fall-out from its rootkit DRM disaster when it planted dangerous spyware on music CDs without telling the people who bought the discs.
Now it’s going to try to, “reinvent itself by binning the requirement for demo tapes and boldly setting up online demos for fans as well as executives to judge,” says the story.
“If you want our A&R team to hear your music, then don’t send a CD, REGISTER A BLOG,” say columbiademos.co.uk and rcademos.co.uk.
Use the Sign Up Now link, it’s quick and free. Using this link will automatically link you to the xxx neighborhood. That way we can find you easily, have a listen and look over your blog.
Put your best tracks, videos and pictures up and blog about yourselves and the other bands in your community. Always keep your blog updated with new content and connect with other bands that interest you.”
The “old-style, royalties-based major-label deal is dead,” the Times has Ged Doherty, chairman and ceo of Sony BMG Music Entertainment Europe declaring. “Revenue from live concerts, sponsorship, mobile deals and merchandise will be shared with SonyBMG,” he says.
Not only but also, “I’m willing to give up more of my revenue if artists are willing to give up theirs. By 2010 we want joint ventures with all our artists. We have just signed our first ‘50-50 on everything’ deal” because Sony BMG needs to, “enter into a new relationship with our artists, where they see us as partners rather than the enemy.,” he says, and the demo blogs are, “designed to create an open, transparent access point for musicians”.
Ged is also making a desperate bid to be cool and groovy.
He’s launch his very own web site and on it posts:
“During the week Sharon and Ozzy popped into the office to meet the team at Columbia. Sharon had come in to play Ozzy’s new album, and after we listened to it The Ozzman himself joined us to say hello. He was on great form I thought. He looked really well and is very happy with how the album has turned out. It really sounds great, a bit of a return to form if I may say. His best since Blizzard of Oz.
“He was cracking jokes and telling us loads of funny stories. It is also the first time I had seen him since I worked with him when I worked for Epic in New York many moons ago, and it was great to see that he is exactly the same. We do a lot of work with Sharon as well as our company in conjunction with Simon Cowell and his company Syco makes the X factor TV programme. Sharon is a real pleasure to work with and has a brilliant sense of humour.”
In other post, “I have finally got round to listening to Neon Bible,” he says. “I did not buy it the first day it came out because I was still behaving like a spurned lover towards them.”
Spurned lover, eh?
And Ged’s page offers further proof of just how tough times really are for him and Sony BMG.
He’s even running Google Adsense ads touting the likes of FreeMusicConnection and easymusicnow.com. And he’s got code in between each post so you can’t miss the entries.
Who gets to keep the cash? Sony BMG or Ged?
It’s tough at the top ;P
Also See:
The Times Online - SonyBMG retires demo and urges new talent to upload songs, March 30, 2007
MarketWatch - Dell shares pressured after revelation, March 30, 2007
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March 31st, 2007 at 1:02 pm
What a suck - he makes it like hes the one making it better for artists - of course - now they have to share their only REAL source of revenue with the labels they are much better off NOT - artists only ever survived off concerts and merchandising - in 95% of cases they never saw a cent from the lables, so how kind of them to now eat in to the only actual source of income most of them ever had!!!
If they would just bring in a user licesnign mechanism for p2p they would recover the money they ‘invest’ and leave the poor artist alone and allow them to keep using this as a source of revenue - the problem is actual artists - I mean the ones that create and not just the bullshit ones are smart enough to know that this is a worse deal than before which means the lables will only be signing the singing budgie types and using their payola to ensure the world is inundated with their hollow screaching… die labels die…
March 31st, 2007 at 3:28 pm
Demos? or would it be more accurate to say they are looking to rip the artist off yet again? How hard would it be to record the best of bands’ offerings and come up with something similar while never actually signing a single contract?
The cartels have went from ceasing to groom artists for the long haul, to wanting to cherry pick the best of smaller label stables, and it looks now as if they want to drop the smaller labels entirely and get to the promising artists before those bands have a chance to get signed anywhere. It sort of looks like they are looking for fresh ideas to improve the staleness of their present offerings.
Given the past actions of Sony, I wouldn’t trust them with a demolished car straight out of the parts junk yard. This article just smells of cheese wafting off the mouse trap.
March 31st, 2007 at 4:52 pm
“… die labels die…” “… die labels die…” “… die labels die…”
March 31st, 2007 at 4:55 pm
As I was reading the article all I could think about was the rootkit thing and how this so obviously sounds like a ripoff for artists and a trap for consumers, both.
March 31st, 2007 at 5:46 pm
… is so evil. They not only infect computers of loyal customers with “rootkit malware virus troyan” shit, those evil labels will defraud you over your own royalties.
Ask the Bay City Rolers!
http://www.p2pnet.net/story/11723
So do NOT offer those greedy dinosaurs, like Ged Doherty that are to stupid to find a real job to earn money with real hard physical work, to take your creativity to fill THEIR pockets with.
Market your creative talent yourself via a small website and a micropayment button or use sites like www.amiestreet.com so you can make sure you get money for your creative work, and you don’t risk that informed customers will spit on you once they find out that you have teamed with the evil Music labels that sue children!