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more about #warner 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 » techpops001: How about this for an idea for a morally right web app but probably legally wrong. The service would offer various types of links to music, from torr... more » collectiveego: Very inciteful and interesting as my first album is releasing in a few weeks. I'll have to scrutinize every invoice. ..the next person to use the wo... more » ellismatt: Isn't the theory of "the band makes zero dollars until they're recouped" a bit misleading. They've already pocketed the advance. It's another debate ... 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 » corsair130: Reading the entire article I kept wondering, is there any way that this guy could contact I-tunes directly to find out exactly how many of his band's ... more » gumwrapper: Now it all makes sense after reading the informed comments. There was a really popular band (I don't remember who) that made an album and allowed you ... more » jimmyrizzo: Forgetting for just a mement that labels tend to screw just about every artist in their stable ... with shoddy and/or possibly criminal accounting pra... more » SlinkyDink: TMJ was not "punk" anything. They were on a major for christsakes. more » B3ND3R: Without getting too far into it... (ha!) Major record label contracts are exceedingly complex by design. The major label has the knowledge, the know... more » njdevil: I apparently don't understand how the music industry works as well as I thought I did. If so few bands are 'Recouped', How do labels make money? 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 » Panzer23: I have never been a big fan of record labels, but I mean seriously, we have been taught in every other aspect of life to be meticulous, backup data 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 » Oyabun: Can I get a list of unrecouped artists so that I can focus on pirating their music? Its not like the artists are gonna get paid for it anyway. 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 » Dancing Milkcarton: What a interesting, information filled post. Please, more like this. 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 » -
#remainders
Remainders - Stuff We Didn't Post (and Why)
Trade in Your DVDs, Plus a Couple Bucks, and Get the Blu-ray Versions...Steve Ballmer Acknowledges Apple's Gains, Remains Cocky...Sanyo to Build Houses Powered by Solar Energy and Li-Ion Batteries...Sony Announces Vague "iTunes-Like" Store on PlayStation Network for Books, Movies, Music... More » -
#bluray
Zack Snyder to Host Watchmen Screening Over BD Live
Warner Bros is super, super smart about marketing their Blu-ray discs. First they had Christopher Nolan host a community screening for The Dark Knight. Now director Zack Snyder will do the same for Watchmen. More » -
#movies
Warner Offering Up Blu-rays in Exchange for HD-DVDs with Red2Blu Program
Still sitting on a pile of HD-DVDs that grow more and more embarassing by the day? Warner Bros. has just started up a new program that'll let you swap them out for Blu-ray versions. More » -
#terminator4
Just Another Day at the Office...Submarine
From Terminator Salvation, John Connor leads The Resistance from his submarine—all while keeping bloody but cozy in his well-tailored aviator jacket (J. Crew, $550). But...what's that red glow all about? More » -
#movies
Terminator Salvation Will Be Blown Up for IMAX Release
The good news is that Terminator Salvation, a movie that doesn't look too bad (I swear!) will be released to IMAX theaters. The bad news is that it wasn't shot on IMAX film originally. More » -
#itunes
iTunes Wants $250 To Upgrade My Music Collection (Or the Deal's Off)
I knew I had a full-blown music-purchasing problem when I went to "upgrade" my iTunes collection—raising the quality and stripping the pestilential DRM—and the grand total came to an all-or-nothing $250. More » -
#bdlive
Dark Knight's Chris Nolan Event Shows BD-Live Is Not Quite Ready
Chris Nolan just hosted the live, on-demand substitute for a Dark Knight commentary track last night. So why was I left unsatisfied after squinting at my TV for two and a half hours? More » -
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#rumor
Is iTunes Ditching DRM Tomorrow?
Speculation aboutifwhen iTunes would score DRM-free tracks from all major studios like Amazon and Walmart do has been rampant, but according to a rumor at AppleInsider, all this speculation may come to an end tomorrow. More » -
#terminator
Terminator Salvation Motion Poster Gives Absolutely No New Information
If I were to have visited the Terminator Salvation set and seen all sorts of crazy stuff, there's a good chance I'd be under NDA so I couldn't talk about it until some specially designated time. But I bet it would have been a great trip that I was eager to share with you all. More » -
#mp3s
Sandisk Replaces CDs With SlotMusic MicroSDs With Big-Name MP3 Albums Aboard
Sandisk's slotMusic cards are not much more than tweaked 1GB microSD cards with a logo and a special USB-compatible sled: but the fact that they'll carry albums from big names like BMI Music, Sony BMG, Universal Music Group, and Warner Music Group makes them interesting. They'll also be DRM free too, which is a pleasant surprise. It's an attempt to change the way some people buy MP3s—you'll get a card you can slot into your cellphone or PC with high-quality MP3s (up to 320kbps), artwork, videos and such, which you can also reuse as a 1GB memory card later, and that's kinda handy. More »
