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MySpace is dying because at some point, it became socially useless. The site is still an important hub for many bands, but it’s lost the respect of a large portion of the grassroots music community because it really is socially useless. Economist Umair Haque has an interesting article about how social uselessness led to the [...]

A lot of people are getting the sense that media is receding. That the Internet is swallowing the music industry, newspapers and the whole mass media industrial complex. So goes these things, so goes the hit. Top 40 music is a product of the major label distribution/radio/music law triumvirate. And we know where that’s all [...]

It’s no longer a secret that companies and individuals that are solely in the business of selling media products that can be copied are doomed.
If you want to get a glimpse into the future of music, look no further than T-Pain. He’s released an iPhone application called I Am T-Pain that lets users sing along [...]

Google just launched a music service called “One Box”. It’s basically a collaboration between Google, MySpace and Lala. Google won’t become a music retailer or anything. It’s just going to let iLike(owned by MySpace) and Lala serve up the music in Google’s search engine.
It’s a win-win for everyone involved. MySpace and Lala get the traffic [...]

The biggest, baddest and best musical brands grow in the fertile soils of groupthink. It’s where the seeds of mass hysteria are planted. This is one of the most important pieces of marketing insight I can give you.
Surely, you’ve heard the cliché that people are smart, but crowds are stupid. It may be true, but [...]

You don’t have to be the most articulate guy in the room to be the smartest. That’s the thought that comes to mind when I watch 50 Cent’s interview on CNBC’s Powerlunch below. He runs circles around the MBAs in the room.
The man’s got loads of common sense. He’s got balls too. I would [...]

One of the ironclad rules of the human condition is that anything difficult takes more than one person to accomplish. In reality, what makes difficult things so difficult is that there are so many variables involved that require the right kinds of people to understand them and to work together.
If you spend enough time [...]