This Week Sales, New Streams, and Death Row Off The Block..
Posted June 26, 2008 — in Music News
The Master is in Debt: Ticketmaster who is famous for their subcharges have been let go by their parent company, LAC/InterActiveCorp. Ticketmaster must now operate independently with 750 million debt.
Kid Rock’s Message To The Youth: This is a must watch video. Kid Rock suggests it’s ok to illegally download songs, but it shouldn’t stop there. Go ahead and steal a MAC and an iPod as well…
The Crue Back On The Charts: Motley Crue is expected to land on the top 5 of the Billboard album charts. The new record titled ‘Saints of Los Angeles is independently released and is distributed by Red. Nikki Sixx’s successful project SIXX A.M . and the best selling autobiography, The Dirt, has put the band on the map again. Check out the new track ‘Animal in Me‘.
This Week Sales:
Disturbed (Indestructible) - TW 59k Total 414,000
Kid Rock (Rock n Roll Jesus) - 28,595 Total 1,021,00
Flyleaf - TW 9,263 Total 1,068,000
Three Days Grace (One-X) TW 6,636 Total 1,254,000
Death Row Off The Block: Suge Knigh’s Death Row Records was auctioned and sold for 24 million. Susan Berg who is the president of Global Music Group laid down the big bucks and is now in control of all the the recordings by Tupac Shakur, Snoop Dogg, and Dr. Dre during their stay at the label.
New Stream: The new Shinedown record titled ‘The Sound of Madness’ can be streamed here. The record was produced by Rob Cavallo who has worked with Green Day, My Chemical Romance, and Goo Goo Dolls.
Rob Cavallo asked Shinedown frontman Brent Smith about his goals for the band’s new album. “I said, ‘You know what — when I’m dead and gone, when everybody in this band has passed or what have you, I want the world to remember this as a record that needed to be made, and that there was a reason for it,’ ” Smith says.
This is the attitude that every artist must have when making a record….
The Future of 360 Deals: Check out the article ‘Stumbling Towards 360: An Industry Licks Its Early Wounds‘ that discusses the complexities and the future of 360 deals.
Kings of A&R: We want to hear new music, email tips@kingosfar.com. Don’t forgot to tell us your favorite track.
the new Shinedown album is pretty damn good. might not be ground breaking …. but really good
Comment by Chris — June 26, 2008 @ 9:21 am
I love the track “Face down in the dirt” on the new Crue album! kicks!
Comment by RR — June 26, 2008 @ 9:33 am
I feel like Kid Rock should be saying “Copy your favorite products! Infringe upon the company’s copyrights, use your own resources to create a duplicate iPod or Toyota!”
Isn’t that the scenario? Like if I borrowed my friend’s Toyota Camery & then made an exact copy of it in my garage using my own resources & then gave my friend his Camery back? Is that stealing from Toyota? It’s certainly a different crime than just driving a Camery off the lot. At the very least, it doesn’t hit the middle man like it would.
So why not address the situation as it is? As a copyright infringement issue? As in copying when you don’t have the right to do so. That’s different from theft. It’s not difficult to grasp, & we’re 8 years into this issue… if we can’t even properly address the issue, how are we ever going to move past it? It’s a compound word… copy & right. It’s about copying & it’s about rights. Not theft. Not stealing.
Does that change anything? I dunno. Maybe. Maybe not. But if it doesn’t, why is everyone afraid of calling it what it is?
Comment by Jon Cole — June 26, 2008 @ 1:47 pm
shinedown won’t be remembered five years from now…maybe they should steal another 3ae song this go-round
Comment by hah — June 28, 2008 @ 1:20 pm
That Kid Rock PSA was HILARIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Comment by MB — July 2, 2008 @ 10:29 am