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Posted October 19, 2007 — in Music News
If you want to become a worldwide pop phenomenon then check out the column “How the internet can make you a pop star for almost nothing“.
Tool frontman Maynard Talks Business: “We’re kind of in a new era of music, and this is the perfect project to embrace that. Between MySpace and YouTube and Trig.com and iTunes, whatever’s coming is going to be really interesting,” Keenan said. “It’s not the dog-and-pony show of ‘Here’s the band, here’s the four guys, here’s them going out on their first tour.’ All that stuff goes along with the old way of thinking.” “In a way, I’m trying to discover…a way to make music and survive without it being this capitalist monster trying to take over the world and sell three million units.” (full article)
The RIAA Targets Universities: The ninth wave of pre-litigation letters has been sent by the RIAA to administrators at 19 universities. The effort is for those using university networks to illegally share music to settle claims before they are named in a lawsuit. According to market research firm NPD Group, college students alone accounted for more than 1.3 billion illegal music downloads in 2006. (Billboard)
“How the internet can make you a pop star for almost nothing“.
This has to be a joke. Wonder why KOAR is even posting this. I thought this is a reliable source for music, and not sloppy journalism… because the internet cant make you a star for nothing, and especially not over night. It takes years of development and training.
Comment by anonymous — October 19, 2007 @ 2:38 pm
Well I tend to disagree. If you don’t believe me - The music video for Sick Puppies completely broke that band.
Same goes for OK go. Sure they’d been around for years - but that video would have broke them even if they’d never played a show.
To back up that second point I’ll offer a third - Panic at the Disco got signed soley based upon their myspace before ever playing a show.
Not to say it comes often. But it does occur.
If you’d read the artical, however, you’d realize it was a joke and that the point was that internet fame doesn’t transfer to the actual sale of physical units.
Beau
Comment by Beau Bretz — October 19, 2007 @ 11:48 pm
Beau, I realize that. But all those bands put in years of development before they were able to “blow up over night by pure internet exposure”. That’s what I’m getting it.
And come on, Sick Puppies are a band that already arrived in the mainstream? Look at the album sales. If a miracle wont happen, they gonna be done before they even started. The youtube video was a fluke, the idea behind the video got them millions of views, not their music. It was just a byproduct, background music you’d hear in an elevator. Nobody really cared for it. That’s why this band isnt selling any records.
Comment by anonymous — October 20, 2007 @ 3:44 am
Beau
You are right. The sick puppies video was interesting, not sick puppies themselves. The video connected, the songs apparently did not connect. The video garnered millions of views and the cd didn’t even scan 50K. That’s is a huge disparity.
This was a great article, so funny and so true.
Missy
Comment by missy — October 20, 2007 @ 7:38 am
Its important to have great everything. Great video, great songs, and great live show.
Sick puppies and ok go are valuable lessons. A viral video doesn’t equate to success.
Comment by tina — October 20, 2007 @ 7:42 am
Amen!! tina
Comment by Michael Barile — October 20, 2007 @ 8:51 am
hey Maynard! “I” is for Idiot!!
Comment by Michael Barile — October 20, 2007 @ 9:27 am
“H” is for Hipocrit!!
Comment by Michael Barile — October 20, 2007 @ 9:35 am
“M” is for Millionaire, which is WHAT you ARE!!
Comment by Michael Barile — October 20, 2007 @ 9:36 am
“C” is for Capitalism which is HOW YOU HAVE EVERYTHING
YOU HAVE!!
Comment by Michael Barile — October 20, 2007 @ 9:38 am