Part One: 13 Most Pervasive Lies http://bit.ly/HIg1WC
Part Two: Polarization & The Experience Business http://bit.ly/1b6Ei3l
Part Three: “We’ve turned into a nation of grazers. And the artist’s job is to constantly be at the smorgasbord. Not to deliver one big meal that is picked at and thrown away, but to constantly provide tantalizing bites to the public.” “Labels are no longer in the record business, they’re in the star business. How to maximize the revenue of an individual or band in as many media as possible, in as many ways as possible. Yes, while you were bitching about piracy, your whole business model disappeared.” http://bit.ly/1aI59yp
Part Four: The End Of Physical Media (And Beyonce) http://bit.ly/19Avva2
Part Five: Album Sales (Or The Lack There Of) http://bit.ly/1aI59yp
Part Six: Beyonce, Led Zepplin, & The Failure Of Free http://linkd.in/1hz6GNp
Part Seven: David Lowery on How Silicon Valley Killed The Music Industry http://bit.ly/19qtkC0 “a 64 percent decline in recorded music revenue to musicians, a 47 percent decline in artist employment. Yes. That’s true. But the four alarm fire isn’t the length of copyright. The four-alarm fire is that large, multinational corporations have figured out ways to monetize our music, our lyrics, without cutting us in on that. The currency of page views, the currency is you can set up a website that has the top 20 song lyrics, charge advertising on it, do your SEO right and you’ve got a top 500 Alexa website and you generate revenue from that. And you don’t cut in the artist.”
Part Eight: Miley Cyrus (aka Twerking Towards Sustainibilty) http://bit.ly/1a7xjWx