This is a nice example of the post-feminist stance
Ariana Grande criticises Piers Morgan over nudity comments https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/nov/22/ariana-grande-criticises-piers-morgan-over-nudity-twitter-comments-little-mix?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Blogger
https://youtu.be/Ehg15tYK5LI
A solo artist speaking about his experience of dodgy Indie labels who sell themselves on doing the online work like getting tracks onto Spotify etc ... And how easy he realised this was when he tried for himself after discovering how the label were letting him down.
You'll note how he plugs his own website, and holds up physical copies of his CDs, in trying to monetise his music ... He even signs off with a plea for viewers to add his songs to their Spotify playlists to boost their plays!
More news on Indie distribution: https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/glassnote-signs-global-distribution-deal-with-kobalts-awal-leaves-behind-major-label-system/
For years the music industry has argued that YouTube exploits the lack of legal protection around music videos being viewed on its service to pay minimal amounts to artists and labels when they are viewed. The music industry has lobbied that this “value gap” between the true worth of the music videos and what YouTube decides to pay needs to be addressed with legislation....
On Wednesday, a crucial vote by the European parliament’s legal affairs committee went the way of the music industry with an agreement to adopt copyright laws that will force platforms such as YouTube to seek licences for music videos.
YouTube has an estimated 1.3 billion users who regularly watch music videos and it paid $856m (£650m) in royalties to music companies last year – an estimated 67 cents per user annually. In the UK, record labels and artists earn more than double the royalties from the sale of 4.1m vinyl records than they did from the 25bn music videos watched on YouTube last year.
By contrast, income from the 272 million music fans who paid for ad-supported services such as Spotify, generated $5.6bn in royalties, or about $20 per user annually.
Interesting, contradictory week - Metal Hammer TV launched to rival fellow metal magazine Kerrang! which has a thriving station. The convergence is furthered by some radio offerings by the likes of Q too.
However, MTV Rocks has gone (replaced by VH1 Christmas, just what the world needed), and so too has the Sony brand Scuzz TV, a 15-year show on Sky credited with many video premieres and breaking several bands.
Mixed picture then - there are still TV stations and shows out there based around the music video, 20 years on from MTV's shift towards moronic reality TV such as Pimp My Ride, an epically non-woke title if ever there was one.
But they are getting more niche, small channels rather than shows on major channels. The likes of Blabbermouth and other ezines with their social media presence are at least as important for music videos and promo campaigns generally.
YouTube looms above the rest, with Spotify and Apple also moving into music video - like radio, a resilient format that remains central to music marketing.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/newsbeat-46196569
Lot of great detail here, the bottom line being not just the accelerating decline of physical media sales, but the death of the album - with examples given such as Drake's 25-track album where 3 songs account for over 60% of all streams from the album, 19 others a combined 18%!
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/the-album-is-in-deep-trouble-and-the-music-business-probably-cant-save-it-753795/
These guys are becoming the Man Utd of music, squeezing every angle for money. It's not that long ago they launched their own whiskey line, now it's expensive ($125-500) watches, with 8 themes to pick from.
As they (almost) growled on Enter Sandman:
If I buy before I wake
I pray the lord my brain to take
http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/metallica-watches-have-arrived-video/
Here's a Ppt I put together analysing some samples of their merchandising.
