Big Music: haemorrhaging stars
p2pnet news | Music:- Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG are haemorrhaging customers at a rate of knots as they continue their savage sue ‘em all war.
But that’s not all they’re losing.
Major artists have also seen the writing on the wall and are abandoning the venal Big 4 with the acts below representing the "smart money," says a Reuters/Billboard story.
PRINCE released some of his new music online and launched his latest album through a UK newspaper. Not only but also, he’s, "staging a massive effort to ‘gain control of the Internet’ by suing the Pirate Bay and forcing independent fan clubs to remove images and other content …"
TRENT REZNOR/NINE INCH NAILS dumped Interscope and Universal Music Group and, "came right out and declared his intention to release the group’s next album from its Web site for $5, also collaborating with Saul Williams on the "Niggy Tardust" release, offered online.
COURTNEY LOVE "penned a rambling stream-of-consciousness post on her MySpace page admitting her fascination with the Radiohead model and said she would consider something similar in the future."
DAFT PUNK’s Alive 2007, "appeared on iTunes a week before it did physical formats" and its Thomas Bangalter told Billboard last summer, "What we might be interested to do from an artistic point of view might not have the same agenda as a major label for using physical formats,."
CHUCK D/PUBLIC ENEMY is, "already releasing his own material and that of Public Enemy under his primarily digitally distributed label SLAMjamz."
SUFJAN STEVENS, "may easily decide to just push his songs online as soon as they’re done rather than wait for a more traditional model".
PEARL JAM, "already sells live recordings directly to fans through a proprietary Web interface, and has a history of eliminating the middleman to make its work more affordable to fans."
UNDERWORLD, with online store Riverrun Project, has, "cited the desire to make new music available immediately, rather than wait years for an album release."
DEPECHE MODE, "no longer need a major label in their corner
Also see:
Reuters/Billboard – Love, others may follow Radiohead’s no-label lead, December 30, 2007
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December 31st, 2007 at 7:27 pm
“Sony BMG are haemorrhaging customers at a rate of knots as they continue their savage sue ‘em all war.”
The sue them all campaing is what is causing the hemoraging.
Right now holywood is bleeding because of the shut down of several torent sites. but not letally yet
If the MPAA manage to shut down something like the pirate bay, whow! It will turn into a big boycott dissaster! Mark my world!
Personally I am already boycoting the movie industry in addition to th emusic. And I am pondering if I should also boycott the TV. No movie theater, no DVD no download, NOTHING! Not a peny nor to the pigs, nor to the parasite. I want to make sometyhing very very clear to these low life morons: They need me I don’t need them!
So go ahead MPAA make my day and shoot down the pirate bay and shop of your own head at the same time! (If you can of course! Hehehe!)
January 1st, 2008 at 7:44 am
“Major artists have also seen the writing on the wall and are abandoning the venal Big 4 with the acts below representing the “smart money,” says a Reuters/Billboard story.”
…and don’t forget Peter Gabriel, who is trying to release free music from his record label by adding small adverts (which delete themselves after a few plays, but leave the music permanently on your device).
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/default.stm