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Sure, you can say 'ouch, 60% of your industry' - but you could say the same about the guys breeding horses when cars came along (or whatever) - times change. Of
by iamben 11y ago
Sure, you can say 'ouch, 60% of your industry' - but you could say the same about the guys breeding horses when cars came along (or whatever) - times change. Of course it hurts when the golden goose stops laying eggs, but if you don't adapt to the world, how do you expect to survive? The labels (majors especially) spent so long and so much trying to stuff the genie back in the bottle when they could have been adapting to the new landscape.
As for the indie labels - it's a massive shame, I agree, although many adapted and survived. But I'd argue indie artists have it easier than before - you can record and distribute an album for basically the cost of your time these days. (Although, that in itself is both a good, and bad thing.)
- jamespo 11y agoHow accurate is the horse analogy? The music industry is still the one producing the product, it's just very easy to get it for free nowadays.
- iamben 11y agoHaha, not incredibly - it was the first thing that came in to my head - but you got what I meant! I'm sure there's a better one :-) The major labels (certainly), controlled the distribution channels (and I know a lot of indies used a major for distribution, when it was all physical media) - and they don't, so much, anymore. My point was they chose to fight the future rather than adapt to it, so other people came and stole the new business. There's what - 4 big labels? Had they come together they could have sewn up digital distribution before other companies (iTunes, then Spotify, etc etc) came and stole their revenues. Sure music industry profits may be down, but that money is probably just being made elsewhere. I guess change is hard. The 50 something record exec behind the big desk in the year 1999 who's never sent an email, getting told by some 20 year old kid in a winamp t-shirt that 'MP3s are the future' is probably going to laugh him out the office. When he realises people are taking music for free, in bulk, his reaction is(/was??!) probably - that's stealing, not 'how can we monetize this?'
- yuhong 11y agoDo you know why the majors reacted badly where the indies didn't? I wonder if it is due to the culture.
- lentil_soup 11y agoHonest question, anyone knows how easy is it for a band to put their stuff on something like Spotify? Or do they still need to go through a label?
- lentil_soup 11y agoShould have googled that before: https://support.spotify.com/is/problems/#!/article/I-m-an-artist-how-do-I-get-my-music-on-Spotify https://support.spotify.com/is/problems/#!/article/I-m-an-ar...
- iamben 11y agoTry https://distrokid.com/ https://distrokid.com/ :-)