Miguel Cano's Profile

The music industry is really focused on the
‘industry’ part and not so much on the ‘music’ part.

This is the
greatest moment in the history of music if your dream is to distribute
as much music as possible to as many people as possible, or if your
goal is to make it as easy as possible to become heard as a musician.

Ah, the perfect playlist. In the quest to find a musical oasis where track after track is a pleasant reprieve from the surrounding world, even the best of efforts are often thwarted by limited song selection, an overly complicated user interface, or the lack of insight into upcoming songs. So we’ve scoured the web to find only the best musical offerings and we’ve put together a list of five sites that make playlist building a joy.

In 2008, CD sales were down 54.6 percent from 2000, or a giant 514.6 million units less.

If any industry has felt the brunt of the internet as a disruptive technology, it’s the music industry, which has been dealt a heavy blow by the onset of digital music distribution. On the April 28, the RIAA again confirmed this state of affairs when reporting that CD sales, the mainstay of the business for the last 15 years, were down a whopping 20.5% in 2007. Then on May 2, a Federal Court ordered AOL, Real Networks and Yahoo! to pay $100M to music artists as back payment for streaming their music online, proving that it’s not just the Big Four labels who have been affected by this disruptive shift.