“Not one artist’s album has gone platinum in 2014. Is it streaming, albums, the music or all three? If you’re looking for evidence that the sales model is dead, here it is. If you’re a marginal band on the road surviving on $20 signed CDs, if you’re employing sales shenanigans as publicity to drive concert […]
Read More Lefsetz on the Lack of Platinum Albums in 2014FOLLOWERS Are students of what’s in front of them. LEADERS Are students of the game. via Lefsetz Letter.
Read More Bob Lefsetz on Followers and LeadersMaybe your music doesn’t scale to everybody. But what’s weird is no music scales to everybody today. There’s no hit everybody knows, no show everybody’s got to go to. But we all know the aforementioned Google, Facebook and iPhone. And we know Amazon too. And it’s all because they’re useful, they provide a service. That’s […]
Read More Bob Lefsetz on the scalability of tech over the arts and music“In a world where everybody’s overwhelmed, many are immune to hype, they’re busy with other things, they come to the party later. And that’s fine. That’s even better. Continued slow growth keeps you in the public consciousness.” -Bob Lefsetz
Read More Lefsetz on slow growth“Ignorance is no longer an excuse. To be uninformed is to take yourself out of the equation. News comes from everywhere. Not only traditional outlets, but Twitter, websites, e-mail… Pre-internet most people were ignorant, you just didn’t know it. Today many more people are clued-in. And he who harnesses data wins.” –Bob Lefsetz
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