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Release Day Economics
The band Uniform Motion have posted a breakdown of how much money they get if you purchase their music through any of the various legal mechanisms available. It’s a fascinating read.
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(via Ben Brooks)
Posted on September 16, 2011 via Uniform Motion with 219 notes
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Life-Altering Music Format of the Day: For his latest release, The Occurrence, musician Jeff Mills fused a CD and 5” vinyl record to produce a glorious hybrid, capable of being played as either/or.
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We’ll have to look into using this for the next Seldom release!
(via infinitebutterflies)
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Posted on June 24, 2010 via The Daily What with 1,111 notes
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[P]eople only made money out of records for a very, very small time. When The Rolling Stones started out, we didn’t make any money out of records because record companies wouldn’t pay you! They didn’t pay anyone!
Then, there was a small period from 1970 to 1997, where people did get paid, and they got paid very handsomely and everyone made money. But now that period has gone.
So if you look at the history of recorded music from 1900 to now, there was a 25 year period where artists did very well, but the rest of the time they didn’t.
—Sir Mick Jagger agrees with Brian Eno.
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I think records were just a little bubble through time and those who made a living from them for a while were lucky. There is no reason why anyone should have made so much money from selling records except that everything was right for this period of time…It was a bit like if you had a source of whale blubber in the 1840s and it could be used as fuel. Before gas came along, if you traded in whale blubber, you were the richest man on Earth. Then gas came along and you’d be stuck with your whale blubber.
Brian Eno (via Eric Case, via buzzandersen)
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Posted on April 9, 2010 via Sci-Fi Hi-Fi with 24 notes
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Michael Travis’s Flashmob video for OKJunior - All I Need has been entered into Babelgum’s Online Film Festival. If you like the video, please do vote for it to win by clicking the small “thumbs up” on the left-hand side of the video’s page on Babelgum.
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Married to the Sea: record wishes — 21th Jan 2010
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just an fyi
zoya:
music sales (albums, singles, digital tracks and music videos) were up 2% in ‘09 vs ‘08. album sales were down 12.7%, but of those who did buy them, 16% more did it online. vinyl sales are up THIRTY THREE PERCENT.
Seldom loves vinyl.
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Posted on January 12, 2010 via CATSLOCK
Source: zoya
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(If the colours are unclear for you, here’s a fixed version.)
An enlightening graph, by Times Online. If you’re a musician, ignore the scare stories about the death of the music industry; it’s just the record labels that are dying. Visit the Times Online for more details and analysis.
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Seldom Records was created because three people who love music got fed up with being force-fed bland, pre-packaged pop groups by the record industry, and decided to do something about it. This was a fair few years ago and we have stuck to our somewhat apt name.
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