Christopher Joel

I read this article on Hypebot today and I can’t help saying: WTF??!?!
It appears that performance rights organizations (PROs), ASCAP, BMI, & SESAC, are suing AT&T Mobile over their use of the 30 second clips of songs in order to sell said songs.  These are the same clips that iTunes, Amazon, and pretty much every [...]

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You couldn’t make this stuff up.  Ironically, someone already did.  One of my favorite comedy sources in The Onion.  They wrote this article back in 2002 and it’s simultaneously funny and sad that it’s come true.
What I find truly sad is that an industry that is so obviously hurting to regain it’s popularity, profits, and [...]

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Mariah Carey has passed Elvis’ record for #1 hits.  She has 18, he had 17.  Now she is second only to The Beatles, who had 20.  Scary stuff.  Hopefully, she doesn’t ever pass The Beatles.  How sad would that day be, huh?

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This guy thinks he has the answer: write a song that has the word “radio” in it.  Radio loves itself (like everyone, right?), so hearing about radio in a song makes it more likely that they will play the song.  At least, that’s the theory.  I might try that someday and see if it’s true…

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Artists will apparently just continue to get screwed.  You can add technology, you can change the terminology, you can interchange companies, you can even change continents…but artists will still get screwed.
As if recording contracts aren’t already unfair to the artist, labels are now trying to demand that radio stations pay them for the right to [...]

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