How Can New Music Compete With Classic Rock?
Here Fred Jacobs explores the challenge of breaking through classic rock’s stranglehold on radio, and how to give new music a fighting chance at competing for space on the airwaves.
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How can new music compete against Classic Rock? That is the question, as ironic as it may sound.
Nearly four decades ago when I was trying to just get ambitious broadcasters to take a risk on an all-gold radio format on the FM band, featuring the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, and the Eagles, I never could have dreamed anyone could possibly ask that question.
The harsh reality about the music business, and a pantomime led by clueless self-regarders.
January 19, 2021
John Nicolson MP chose not to explore user-centric licensing at the DCMS Committee, at David Joseph s invitation. Instead, he suggested major record company heads should feel ashamed
Here it is. Amongst all the industry-wide debate over equitable streaming payouts, this has cracked it. Finally, a truly revolutionary idea that ensures an actual fair share of the billions of dollars Spotify makes goes to every artist.
For starters, let’s stop arguing about what royalty share record companies should take from their individual contracts with artists. Let’s just cut those suckers out altogether. You read right: let’s kill the majors! Nighty night you million-dollars-an-hour machines!
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MPs are expected to examine how major labels benefit from platforms like Spotify
18.01.21
Top-level figures from Sony Music, Warner Music and Universal Music face questions tomorrow in the third session of an inquiry into the economics of music streaming.
MPs are expected to examine how major labels benefit from streaming and address issues that have led to calls for a review of streaming revenues to benefit a wider range of artists.
There will be two panels: the first at 10am features CEO of PRS for Music Andrea Martin and CEO of PPL UK Peter Leathem, while the second at 10:45am will hear evidence from Universal Music UK & Ireland CEO David Joseph, Sony Music UK & Ireland CEO Jason Iley and Warner Music UK CEO Tony Harlow.
by Stephen Chapman
The studio, made famous by her Beatle father celebrates its 90th anniversary this year.
“Some of my earliest memories as a young child come from time spent at Abbey Road,” said the photographer and filmmaker.
“I’ve long wanted to tell the story of this historic place and I couldn’t be collaborating with a better team than John and Mercury Studios to make this creative ambition a reality.”
If These Walls Could Sing is produced by John Battsek (One Day In September, Searching For Sugar Man, Eric Clapton: Life In 12 Bars) for Mercury Studios - Universal Music Group’s content studio. It comes following a new development deal between Mercury and Battsek’s Ventureland.