Great News

[sgs4u]

GREAT NEWS (click on the yellow words to read the article)Quote:Believe It Or Not, The Music Industry Is GrowingChris Anderson has compiled stats showing that, if declines in CD sales are set aside, every other aspect of the music industry is growing.Concerts and merchandise +4%Digital tracks +46%Ringtones +86% last year, but single-digit growth this yearLicensing for commercials, TV shows, movies and games. Warner Music saw licensing grow $20 million last year.Vinyl singles sales more than doubled in the UKIf you include iPods in the music industry, as Anderson argues we should, they are up 31% this yearOnly CD's which with mp3 player sales included make up 25% of the music industry (60% without) were down 18% last year.This is a welcome news article. Never assume that a big ol business like ours is gonna roll over and die, or disappear without a fight. This thread is meant to open up discussion about where, the business is heading. Any predictions? Libraries were big news to me about 3 years ago. What's the next big thing in music gonna be?steve

[mazz]

iPods that play Vinyl!!!Mazz

[gitarrero]

...in about 10 yrs your credit card got accounted if you think of a particular song... NO JOKE..!!

[elser]

I read an interview with producer Bill Bottrel and I've heard it elsewhere as well that live performance is going to become a commodity with increasing demand. The argument going that while things like loop construction kits and Garage Band and similar products are enabling more people to create original music, the ability to actually pull it off live is increasingly rare.

[mazz]

Quote:I read an interview with producer Bill Bottrel and I've heard it elsewhere as well that live performance is going to become a commodity with increasing demand. The argument going that while things like loop construction kits and Garage Band and similar products are enabling more people to create original music, the ability to actually pull it off live is increasingly rare.You mean people actually play those things with keys and strings? Does that mean the Mel Bay books are coming out of the basement?A backlash towards live music would be a good thing!Mazz

[squidlips]

I'm with Elser. I think live shows will be the new trend. Too much production going on these days (I know, I'm doing it! ) and the ability to play a concert without tricks will be something worth seeing in 10 years, I'll bet.

[tedsingingfox]

Quote:I read an interview with producer Bill Bottrel and I've heard it elsewhere as well that live performance is going to become a commodity with increasing demand. The argument going that while things like loop construction kits and Garage Band and similar products are enabling more people to create original music, the ability to actually pull it off live is increasingly rare.Lord, I hope that's the truth. Just that IDEA is great reason for hope. And in the meantime, let's keep producing. Ted

[tedsingingfox]

And thanks for taking the time to make the post for all of us, Steve.Ted

[ggalen]

Quote:I read an interview with producer Bill Bottrel and I've heard it elsewhere as well that live performance is going to become a commodity with increasing demand. Yes. And the live shows that do great will be those that are events...meaning that they are larger than life, and really entertaining.And that means more than smoke and lights and glamor.It means understanding how to put across all the emotion that a song is capable of producing in the listener. Be it a beautifully sweet ballad, or a balls to the walls rock blast.Also, the real successes will be the entertainers who play things a bit differently each time, but always well. So people will come back again and again to see how they do the songs that night.

[sgs4u]

As a guy who's spend his entire life playing songs in front of people, I can offer this observation. More smoke, lights and glimmer, are often diametrically opposed to putting across all the emotion a song is capable of evoking from a listener, IMHO. If you want all the poignant moments a song can offer, use your ears, and not your eyes. But fans are willing to pay lots of money to see a show, not so much to hear an artist. The way large audiences are entertained is here to stay for a long time. Do you think that's likely to change, given the world we live in? I also love big entertaining shows & concerts, but they're not about music, and very rarely about spontenaity. They are about the experience of being there, all the senses included. Small shows in soft seaters, coffee houses, and restaurants can be wonderfully intimate, along with the music. What each of us calls an event, is pretty subjective. I just can't get behind any train of thought that judges one kind of art, as expendable in favor of another. Loops are great, live guys are great too. If you don't feel it, that doesn't mean it should be eliminated. I'm all for anything that promotes all kinds music and all artforms, as a valuable part of a balanced life experience. To suggest that people are gonna start going to see more bands as a backlash away from computer gerenated loops, or too many production tricks, is another kind of predjudice, to me. Let em all exist. They all matter to somebody.today's sermon is over