How Susan Boyle's YouTube Star Turn Is Helping Revive Interest In Les Mis
from the well-check-that-out dept
As the recording industry continues to freak out about videos on YouTube without compensation, the whole media sensation Susan Boyle phenomenon is showing how such videos on YouTube clearly act as promotion for the music. Paul Kedrosky notes that Boyle's now famous rendition of a song from Les Miserables has shot the Les Mis CD up from a rank of 1,000 to 32 on Amazon's sales charts, while Mathew Ingram notes that tickets for the live performance of Les Mis have also skyrocketed. And the recording industry still claims that Google is somehow "exploiting" music while giving it all this promotion? Rob Hyndman chimes in, wondering just how many DMCA notices prevented similar results elsewhere. Indeed.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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Google "exploits" music in the same way radio does and MTV did. By that I mean it doesn't.
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I finally watched the video
she's the exact oposite of an american pop singer which means she's ugly and can really sing.
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susan is indeed 'a breath of fresh air !!!
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This is a lie. The fact is that the radio/RIAA relationship is WIN WIN. Without radio, people wouldn't know about the music (it serves as a promotional tool). Without the artists, music radio would have no content.
The radio station can make money from advertisers, RIAA makes money from the increased sales. In fact, I believe RIAA and others used to or still do PAY radio stations to play their music.
Is there some balance between paying the radio stations or having the radio stations pay to play the music? I don't know! (and I don't care). Leave that to them but OBVIOUSLY if RIAA charges radio too much for their music, the radio stations will be hurt and in the end it will also hurt RIAA.
But, isn't that what RIAA is trying to do? (suicide)
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Earlier it was Sarah Palin, and now...
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Therein lies the problem - the RIAA doesn't believe that it can win unless someone else is losing.
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Ew
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Exactly my point, but that doesn't change the fact that the RIAA is trying to do it. Somehow, if they don't see direct revenu, they figure they're being cheated.
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Susan Boyle Quiz Challenge
http://www.jiba-jaba.com/SusanBoyleQuiz.aspx
I quite like it though....so time well spent.
Susan to Win!
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> or still do PAY radio stations to play
> their music.
Nope. That would be illegal. It's called payola and it was quite the scandal when it first happened.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payola
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Susan Boyle
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