My friend Carl and I share a birthday today. To celebrate our birthdays, I created a YouTube playlist for him. Here’s the whole playlist:
One by One
Here are the ten songs, one by one, with my comments to Carl:
Spotify Marches On
Two months ago, Rock Around The Web predicted:
Spotify will come out of the Taylor Swift imbroglio with MORE subscribers.
Now the numbers are out and Spotify not only grew, it grew faster than ever.
The New Say Play App Makes Streaming Music Simple
Streaming music just moved a step closer to World Domination.
Yes, Taylor Swift yanked all her songs off Spotify. But nobody, not even Taylor Swift, can stop the Streaming Music Revolution. As Mark Mulligan of the Music Industry Blog puts it:
Licensed streaming music will be ubiquitous five years from now, music sales will not.
A new iPhone app, out yesterday, just moved the needle a bit closer to “ubiquitous”.
Happy Together? 7 Things You Need to Know about Flo & Eddie Inc. v. Sirius XM Radio Inc.
A Federal Judge in California has ruled that Sirius XM must pay performance royalties to the owners of all music it plays, including music recorded before 1972. Before playing pre-1972 music, the streaming music service “must first seek authorization from the recording’s owner.”
Here’s what you need to know about the decision:
Music Ownership Is Over
The era of owning music is ending. The Streaming Music Revolution is here. Easy access to music you love is now more valuable than ownership.
It goes beyond music. What’s really ending is the need to own things, all kinds of things, just for the sake of having them.
The Man Who Turned Down the Beatles
Dick Rowe blew it. Blew it big-time. Blew it worse than you and I ever blew anything.
Dick Rowe could have signed the Beatles to their first recording contract. The opportunity was served to him on a platter, or more precisely, a demo tape. He turned it down.
In early 1962, Dick met with Brian Epstein, the Beatles’ young manager. According to Brian’s account in his book, A Cellarful of Noise, Dick told him: