Comments on: Recording industry should brace for more bad news

Artists don't need record labels anymore. Mashboxx founder Wayne Rosso says more changes are ahead because of shifts in technology and economics.

[katopotato2008]

The Writing is On the Wall...

It's a matter of economics. Record companies have served in the past as middlemen - between musicians and the consumer. Prior to the internet, mass distribution of media was complex, relatively expensive, and there were significant barriers to entry. The internet has changed this. The traditional distribution channels are slowly disappearing. The distribution of music through downloading is very inexpensive. The power is now in the hands of the artist.

[michaelo1966]

We'll pay; we just won't overpay

Whether it's music, video, medicine, law ... whatever. As the world shrinks the suits have done well so far, but the same economics of outsourcing and disruptive tech they've loved so much is coming right back at them. Only suckers watch TV ads anymore, everybody knows to stop at webmd to do research before showing up to the doctor, sites like idivorce allow people to do their own legal work... Whatever. The old distribution models based on hoarding outlets for goods and embargoing information are dead or dying. The companies that will survive have to deal with and embrace that.

[jltnol]

willing to pay for content, BUT

Agreed.

I'm willing to pay for content.. BUT not content wrapped in the
same package as in years past. The ability to buy what you want
instead of what they record companies want to sell is the only
way to go.

HEY CABLE COMPANIES.. your next! Be forewarned. No more
paying for 350 channels when all you want is the best 15 or so.

If that shrinks the choice, fine by me. Is anyone watching all
those old tired TV reruns anyway?

[megaboylv]

the good news

fans will pay...they just now demand value... not BS

marketing is not an accident; and not gifted from the heavens...without it; you are just left with the long tail

in the long tail: artists starve; in the middle tail: they need a new eco-system and that will depend on new platforms; new models; new partners.

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[dascha1]

To clarify - Recording Industry or Recorded Music?

As I understand it, there are music artists and then there are great-
sounding voices as personalities who push New Media forward.

Thanks!

[imacpwr]

Tired of music industry telling me what kind of music I like!

quote: "The Sia record will enter the charts in the Top 40 in its first week of release."

It will? Why? and what about all the hundreds of other songs out there that were just released? Top 40 acording to who? Who's playing God and telling me who I will prefer to listen to next week?
This is exactly why (in addition to annoying commercials) I hate to listen to the radio anymore! I'm sick and tired of some music mogal telling me who I should be listening to on the radio and then having those same 40 hits played over and over and over till they've finally brainwashed the public into believing those top 40 songs are good when in reality most of it is trash.

[Johntycn]

Decline in recording industry.

Let's face it, since the demise of the Beatles Jimmy Hendrix, Cream et al the turgidity of the stuff turned out by the recording studios is only matched by their seeming inability to market any real talent. A couple of decades of nearly groups and vocal talents that only sound better after a drinking session hasn't helped either. Many of the songs of today are not only sub standard, they do not even deserve the name of song. I'm a musician, I should know.