Independent Record Labels Missing From MySpace Music
from the forgetting-who-brought-you dept
The success of MySpace was helped along quite a bit by independent and non-major-label musicians using the site as a distribution mechanism and way to reach out to and connect with fans. So that's why we were surprised, earlier this week, about reports claiming that the new MySpace Music subsidiary was blocking out some indie labels and focusing mainly on just the major labels (most of whom own a piece of MySpace Music). After posting that message, we received a frantic phone call from someone at MySpace, angrily insisting that the story wasn't true. Our response to that, as always, is that they are free to correct any misconceptions in the comments, and if there were factual errors, we would correct them in the post. Unfortunately, no one at MySpace took us up on that offer.Yet, now the Financial Times is also reporting that a number of well known bands and independent record labels are complaining about being locked out of MySpace Music -- including the Arctic Monkeys, a band who has been considered one of the poster children for using MySpace to become big. It looks like MySpace has become infatuated with the big labels, and the folks who made MySpace the success it is are being left out in the cold. MySpace, undoubtedly, will claim that it offered the independent labels fair terms which they rejected, but when the site itself is owned in part by the major record labels, it's not hard to understand why the indies might feel that they're not getting a very fair deal.
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typical behavour
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Long live The Pirate Bay! Death to the R.I.A.A.!
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I have no idea what you're smoking, but it certainly looks like fun. Please have your dealer contact my dealer as soon as convenient. I am sure they can work out some sort of substance exchange program so I can sample this unique chemical imbalance you are operating under.
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even my band "endsville" is there...
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They have a page on the site, but they are not included in the MySpace Music program, which lets you make playlists out of their music and buy it from Amazon as an MP3 with one click. So, yes, they still have a page on MySpace... but they don't have access to the main features of MySpace Music.
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Implying what, exactly? We did look at it, and the FT article appears to be accurate. Do you have evidence to the contrary?
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How original. Instead of refuting a point, make some stupid claim that the person is on drugs, or crazy. How fun. Maybe I will try.
Hey, dumbass, I have no idea how many times you have impregnated your own relatives, but send me their numbers so I can give it a try.
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Same Old Crap ..
My guess is that they will lighten up once they get enough grief from everyone. But we still need the 'Internet Radio Equality Act' (IREA), as well as many other 'reasonable' laws, to make sure everything is fair. We, at Melted Metal, feel that a government regulated trust fund should be set up to collect royalties, and that the government should focus on enforcement of 'tracking'. SoundExchange is a partisan lobbying organization for the big four major labels, and should not act as a collection agency for anyone.
Bill Wilkins, CEO
Melted Metal Web Radio
www.meltedmetal.com
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Major Label Identikit Stranglehold
Since their interest in music is dictated by the bottom line they could care less whether they're promoting something of lasting value and taking the time it takes to develop actual talent or simply churning out masses of identikit clones of whatever happens to be selling the most units at the time.
The last nail in the music industry's coffin was the whole Idol nonsense. Glorified karaoke has no place eating up the fickle short attention span of the over-stimulated public or the already overcrowded precious radio airtime. And at $15 - $18 it's sad to see it eating into people's CD budgets. That $15 - $18 for an Idol's record MAY have been better spent on a truly worthwhile artist who really had something to offer other than nice hair, teeth, good poses and telegenic appeal... I'm jus' sayin';-)
Idol is a prime example of what is killing... or has KILLED the music industry. Founded by the man who manufactured successes with such wonders as the Spice Girls and Club 7 Idol is just more of the same - flash over substance that ultimately rings hollow and temporary... but not before coaxing the money out of a few pockets in the wake of an utterly artifical hysteria. Great con jobs do not a long term business plan make. Entertainment is one thing great timeless music is another.
Perhaps if major labels catered more actively to the bands, artists, singer-songwriters that actually put them there in the first place and tried to develop careers instead of quick bucks they'd see a turn around. Find other clever innovative grassroots ways to promote so that it'd be possible to recalibrate sales projections to where 100,000 sales would be considered a great success. Quit taking a lionshare of the profits so they could get CD prices down to something resembling reality and the public would actually not mind buying CDs or MP3s again. Out of $15-18$ the artist who makes it all possible is lucky to see 2-3 of those dollars!
Here's a new business model that's kind of like the old one: Actively seek out great, interesting, self-contained organic TRULY talented artists (who write their own songs and have their own unique style and sound) who don't all sound or look alike and combine that with reasonable CD/MP3 prices.
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Alternative to MySpace for indepedent labels/artists
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Independent Record Labels Missing from MySpace Music
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ATTENTION RECORD LABELS
ARTIST,,, C ME / S.C.
U PRODUCTION / CAMPUNIQUEENTERTAINMENT
THE TRACKS ARE HERE,, ALL NEW , ORIGINAL UN CUT RAW TRACKS DIFFERENT SWAG / ALL NEW SOUNDS..
DROP THEM HIT LESS AS OVER CHARGED
BEAT MAKERS,, JUST LISTEN (IN) AN YOU MAKE THE CALL
PERFECT PRICE NO POINTS SEEKING NO STRINGS ATTACH
BY THE TRACKS BY BULK AN THE TRACKS ARE YOURS...........
@ MYSPACE.
COM/IVORIE04
SOUND TRACKS AVAILABLE
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ATTENTION RECORD LABELS
ARTIST,,, C ME / S.C.
U PRODUCTION / CAMPUNIQUEENTERTAINMENT
THE TRACKS ARE HERE,, ALL NEW , ORIGINAL UN CUT RAW TRACKS DIFFERENT SWAG / ALL NEW SOUNDS..
DROP THEM HIT LESS AS OVER CHARGED
BEAT MAKERS,, JUST LISTEN (IN) AN YOU MAKE THE CALL
PERFECT PRICE NO POINTS SEEKING NO STRINGS ATTACH
BY THE TRACKS BY BULK AN THE TRACKS ARE YOURS...........
@ MYSPACE.
COM/IVORIE04
SOUND TRACKS AVAILABLE
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