music industry
How music is paid for and owned: streaming, albums, labels and who holds the masters.
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M.G. Siegler quoted
Technology writer of Spyglass
Their wordsBut it also feels inevitable that ads will creep into all tiers eventually. Death. Taxes. Ads. Everywhere. (Even Apple.)
- 7 days earlier
- MS
M.G. Siegler quoted
Their wordsThe great un-bundling of cable was always going to lead to a re-bundling of streaming. It's simply too expensive and too chaotic without a more central hub.
- 3 days earlier
- MS
M.G. Siegler quoted
Their wordsI'm not sure they fully understood that it wasn't really about juicing their numbers, but about churn prevention.
- 7 weeks earlier
- JK
Jean-Baptiste Kempf quoted
President of the VideoLAN non-profit and one of the lead…
Their wordsDVD is not dead! DVD stay alive, when the streaming services don't!
↗libdvdread 7.1 & libdvdcss 1.6: DVD-VR editionjbkempf.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 7 years earlier
- TS
Taylor Swift quoted
American singer-songwriter (born 1989) who released…
Their wordsWomen in music, on stage or behind the scenes, are not allowed to coast. We are held at a higher, sometimes impossible-feeling standard.
↗Taylor Swift's Woman of the Decade acceptance speech, Billboard Women in Music, Hollywood Palladium, 12 December 2019 (full text as published by Billboard)billboard.com 1st of 2 in this piece
- TS
Taylor Swift quoted
Their wordsLately there’s been a new shift that has affected me personally and that I feel is a potentially harmful force in our industry, and as your resident loud person, I feel the need to bring it up. And that is the unregulated world of private equity coming in and buying up our music as if it is real estate. As if it’s an app or a shoe line.
↗Taylor Swift's Woman of the Decade acceptance speech, Billboard Women in Music, Hollywood Palladium, 12 December 2019 (full text as published by Billboard)billboard.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 2 months earlier
- RI
Rihanna quoted
Barbadian singer and businesswoman (Robyn Rihanna Fenty)…
Their wordsMusic is, like, speaking in code to the world, where they get it. It’s the weird language that connects me to them. Me the designer, me the woman who creates makeup and lingerie—it all started with music. It was my first pen pal–ship to the world. To cut that off is to cut my communication off. All of these other things flourish on top of that foundation.
↗“Rihanna Talks Fenty, That Long-Awaited Album, and President Trump”, interview by Abby Aguirre, Vogue (November 2019 cover story, published online 9 October 2019)vogue.com 1st of 6 in this piece
- 4 years earlier
- TS
Taylor Swift quoted
Their wordsThree months is a long time to go unpaid, and it is unfair to ask anyone to work for nothing.
- 11 months earlier
- TS
Taylor Swift quoted
Our readingMusic is valuable art and should not be free
Their wordsMusic is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for. It's my opinion that music should not be free, and my prediction is that individual artists and their labels will someday decide what an album's price point is.
↗For Taylor Swift, the Future of Music Is a Love Story (op-ed by Taylor Swift, The Wall Street Journal, 7 July 2014; full text as reposted to the Infowarrior mailing list)attrition.org 1st of 2 in this piece
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Taylor Swift quoted
Their wordsI want to make music that reflects all of my influences, and I think that in the coming decades the idea of genres will become less of a career-defining path and more of an organizational tool.
↗For Taylor Swift, the Future of Music Is a Love Story (op-ed by Taylor Swift, The Wall Street Journal, 7 July 2014; full text as reposted to the Infowarrior mailing list)attrition.org 2nd of 2 in this piece