Deadlines/Brief

Music videos are so 80s/90s, right? They belong with the era when MTV screened wall-to-wall vids instead of 'reality' TV? Try telling that to the millions who bought Gangnam Style; were they really simply loving the music? 1.6bn (and still climbing) have viewed the video on YT, not to mention the many re-makes (school eg, eg2), viral ads + celeb link-ups (even political protest in Seoul) - and it doesn't matter how legit it is, this nightmare for daydream Beliebers is making a lot of money, even from the parodies + dislikes. All this for a simple dance track that wouldn't have sounded out of place in 1990 ... but had a fun vid. This meme itself was soon displaced by the Harlem Shake. Music vids even cause diseases it seems!
This blog explores every aspect of this most postmodern of media formats, including other print-based promo tools used by the industry, its fast-changing nature, + how fans/audiences create/interact. Posts are primarily written with Media students/educators in mind. Please acknowledge the blog author if using any resources from this blog - Mr Dave Burrowes

Friday, 6 March 2020

INDUSTRY 2019 big 3 65% share DIY 4% streaming 56%

Great article as usual from a fantastic source. I've put the 3 key figures in the post title, but there's more useful detail within.

Read that straight after a Blabbermouth article about the shameless audio corp that is modern Metallica, who continue to leave no stone unturned to grift a dollar. It's quite the zeitgeist moment: nearly 60 years since the Beatles' official fan club was sending out an Xmas flexidisc exclusive to fans, subscribers to a new Metallica club will get exclusive access to vinyl with unreleased recordings.

Lets just hope they're not from the studio sessions of their woeful last 30 years...

https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/the-global-recorded-music-business-generated-over-50m-a-day-last-year-and-more-than-2m-of-it-went-to-diy-artists/
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