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What Oasis fiasco? The overpriced tickets and the long queues or did something else happened?
Yeah the dynamic pricing, but they discuss the ins and outs of it. They both say they've been encouraged/pressured to use it for their stand up tours, but have always said no, and that it is always the act/artist's choice to do it. Also, they point out that actually by doing it, the money at least stays with the act, as opposed to touts. It's obviously a flawed system but an interesting discussion!
 

Why Fan Pages Are Becoming Artists’ Most Useful — and Cheapest — Marketing Tool​

https://www.billboard.com/pro/fan-pages-artists-marketing-tool/

@DuaLipaHungary you will always be famous and I hope Daddy Lipa will hand his phone to Dua for a short minute so you can get a fun meet & greet while she's on a beach somewhere.

Lemme quickly start one for Addison Rae to get free tickets if she ever tours!
I find it interesting and wholesome when some artists take a fan page and have them actually work for them. I think it's smart, because they know a lot about the ins and outs and have kind of advantage of how the perception of their work looks like. I remember Miley took in one of her main fan page owners and she started working for her in like 2014 or 2015.
 
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Lily Allen's Feet Pics & The Broken Music Biz

Fact checking the misleading posts about the record industry vs the creator economy.

Nice graph:
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Nine Predictions for the Future of the Music Business

(1) Major record labels will gradually turn into sterile IP management companies — it’s already happening — and this will cut them off from the creative currents in society.
(2) Artists will have many options to connect directly with fans — so they won’t need huge music companies.
(3) After years of imposed conformity, listeners will be hungry for something outside the stultifying formulas that have imposed unchanging genre styles for decades.
(4) Alternative channels for music will grow much faster than the large monoculture corporations — and will be the place where new things flourish.
(5) The best strategy for corporate success in this freewheeling future is to nurture, support, and empower the next generation of artists.
(6) Boring, passively-consumed music won’t disappear, but all the excitement will be elsewhere.
(7) A growing number of ‘superfans’ will drive the economics of the music industry — and they will have intense loyalties to musicians and genres.
(8) Live music will be the hottest event in town — and prove that there’s a huge amount of energy and excitement that doesn’t happen on a phone app.
(9) Disruption will come from outside the current paradigm — that’s how innovation happens.

Controversial dynamic ticket pricing to be banned in Australia amid sweeping federal crackdown

Lucky girls there!
 
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Can I ask, though I'm not 100% sure its the right thread:

Do online orders and pre-orders count when the CD / vinyl is shipped or when the order is placed?

From what I gather, is when its shipped but it doesnt make sense to me.
 
Can I ask, though I'm not 100% sure its the right thread:

Do online orders and pre-orders count when the CD / vinyl is shipped or when the order is placed?

From what I gather, is when its shipped but it doesnt make sense to me.
It makes more sense to think of the sale being recorded when it's available to the customer: for a digital purchase, that's instantly. For a physical, it's available to the consumer when it's actually shipped.
 
It makes more sense to think of the sale being recorded when it's available to the customer: for a digital purchase, that's instantly. For a physical, it's available to the consumer when it's actually shipped.

I understand, I just don't understand the logic behind it. Thanks though.
 
I understand, I just don't understand the logic behind it. Thanks though.
On one hand to combat pre-sale shenanigans: many stores don't actually take payment until it's physically in the post and that's at the point it counts as a sale. If 10,000 Kylie fans pre-ordered a variant and 9,000 cancelled it before it shipped, it makes no sense to count it as 10,000 sales.

It's also a lot easier for artists and labels to anchor shipment of physicals out around promo opportunities/streaming peaks to maximise certain weeks and get it higher in the charts.
 
On one hand to combat pre-sale shenanigans: many stores don't actually take payment until it's physically in the post and that's at the point it counts as a sale. If 10,000 Kylie fans pre-ordered a variant and 9,000 cancelled it before it shipped, it makes no sense to count it as 10,000 sales.

It's also a lot easier for artists and labels to anchor shipment of physicals out around promo opportunities/streaming peaks to maximise certain weeks and get it higher in the charts.

Oh, now that makes sense. Thanks x
 
I'm surprised there still isn't a streaming service dedicated to solely professional recordings of concerts - surely there would be enough people interested for something like this? I know there's a couple of streaming services for theatre shows.
Oh that would be great!
 

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