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more about #musicindustry more comments → Nick: i think the real lesson here is how Too Much Joy can quickly turn sour as time marches on. aka old people are grouches. i will now depart your lawn... more » whiteflea: Amazing article. I read it from start to finish, including footnotes. more » PotteryBarnClearanceSale: Here's my theory: It's a database and logic problem in the accounting code. The completely missing album royalties are because there is not a unique ... more » Kaiser-Machead: The title's a bit misleading. Isn't cooking the books illegal, due to the fact it involves deceiving people into believing that there are earnings tha... more » AndPreciousLittleofThat: Mr. Quirk, you've uncovered a maxim in the customer service world. The people who are the easiest to reach, and thus the easiest to curse out, aren't... more » Ryan_Long: For the past 6 years I've worked off and on for a San Francisco avant garde band that some no of, most do not, and the stories of the music industry a... more » dry-roasted-peanuts: "There's a theory that labels and publishers deliberately avoid creating the transparent accounting systems today's technology enables. Because accura... more » AmphetamineCrown: This doesn't seem to me like "cooking the books." Cooking the books implies a certain level of effort to mask the truth. As opposed to just not tell... more » LVP: I did not read this word for word, I'm at work but... "this doesn't mean Warner "lost" nearly $400,000" With all respect, they did lose nearly the a... more » OCEntertainment: Wow, this is a rare gem. You don't often see an article with this kind of detail given about how the industry works. Thanks, Tim. And furthermore, ac... more » NorwoodIsMyHero: In financial analysis and any investor's view of the company: "Just don't earn enough" = "lose". If they aren't making a decent return on their in... more » Alfisted: You're not being Petty, Tim. If you were, you'd release a whole album dedicated to ripping on the labels. more » Jeb_Hoge: The big music business is a hell of a thing. I've got one cousin who's been burned on at least two big-label record deals, and another who's been burn... more » bonedog73: I don't believe surveys nor statistics....they're all BS made up to get people to do or think something they wouldnt normally. Nobody actually knows w... more » fender7083: I guess I don't fit in this survey. I haven't bought a song in four years. The same with movies, game, software. They probably just said this to make ... more » -
#digitaldownloads
My $62.47 Royalty Statement: How Major Labels Cook the Books with Digital Downloads
Tim Quirk was the singer of punk-pop outfit Too Much Joy, signed by Warner Bros. in 1990. Now he's an executive at an online music service, giving him insight on digital sales data and just how labels fudge their numbers. More » -
#badideas
Music Industry Wants Royalties From iTunes 30 Second Samples
Dear music industry: go fuck yourself. More » -
#itunes
The Album Is Dead and Your Stupid CMX Format Won't Bring It Back, Record Labels
The major labels' plan to revive the album with a new format called CMX that includes cover art, lyrics and videos would only be half as stupid if Apple wasn't beating them to the punch with their own stupid album. More » -
