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Originally Posted by Steedeel
Surveys......sigh!
So now you are predicting the death of music also?
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No. I'm predicting the death of the music industry as we've known it for the last 50 years. In fact, many would argue that it's already died.
In the end, that could be a really bad thing or a really good thing. If the big labels actually disappeared, maybe, just maybe, we'd see the rise of successful small labels again run by people who understand and care about music, not just revenue. (There are thousands of small labels today, but very few are successful.) If you look at all the great labels, even the big ones, they were once run by music people: Berry Gordy at Motown, Ahmet Ertegun at Atlantic, Jac Holzman at Elektra, Moses Asch at Folkways; Alfred Lion, Max Margulis and Francis Wolff at BlueNote; Herb Alpert at A&M, Florence Greenberg at Scepter, Creed Taylor at Impulse, Leonard Chess at Chess, Jim Stewart at Stax and many others. These weren't all nice people and they frequently ripped-off their artists, but they knew great music.