Putting Labels on Artists: a Thing of the Past

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If you do not regularly check out Jason Feinberg’s excellent posts on the music business over at the PBS Mediashift site, you are missing out on some of today’s most relevant commentary on the state of the business in light of the digital revolution. Jason’s most recent post provides an outstanding summation of the state of the labels, where they’ve been, where they are and where they might be headed. He answers some questions and raises others. But what one comes away with is the crystallization of what we’ve known for while. That is, labels are in trouble, labels are not the future of the industry, the time for imagining and implementing new business models is now, and the field is wide open. More than ever, I’m convinced that there’s never been a better time to be an entrepreneurial artist and to pursue the artistic dreams that seemed so far out of reach for so many very talented artists.

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