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We're all architects of the industry's future.
Change creates uncertainty, but shaping the future is an honour for all of us
There is little certainty about the music business in 2007. The only thing any of us can predict, for definite, is that this very uncertainty will continue.
Change is woven within the culture of the music business. I recall vividly the first article I wrote for Music Week, back in October 1990. What a different era that was.
The story told how Sam Goody, one of the US's most established retailers, was opening its first shop in the UK, a US records chain arriving bullishly to take on the might of British retail.
The UK music business was then worth #600m - two-thirds of its current value - with a decade of expansion ahead of it. CDs accounted for just 25% of all albums sold - cassettes selling at double the volume - and supermarkets would take five years to discover music.
It was a month when the House Of Lords dismissed the case for the UK's first national commercial pop station, rejecting the music industry's output as "Thump! Thump! Thump!".
What is different about the current period of change is the pace at which it impacts upon us all.
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- Press release article from: PR Newswire November 29, 1990 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: New Media Age November 18, 1999 700+ words
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- Press release article from: M2 Presswire November 24, 1998 700+ words
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- Press release article from: Business Wire December 16, 1999 700+ words
...music, audio, video, and installation industries including Pro Sound News, EQ, Surround Professional, Music Week, Music Business International, fono, Studio Sound, Videography, Content Creation Europe, Installation Europe, AutoMedia...
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- Press release article from: PR Newswire November 5, 1992 700+ words
...The Gavin Report will join Morgan-Grampian's Spotlight Publications division, which publishes Music Week, the CIN Charts, and Music Business International in the U.K., and which publishes a range of music communications titles in the...
- POP MUSIC
- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London JASPER REES September 15, 1994 700+ words
...origin. Following his death earlier this month, Billboard, the American music-business paper, ran a handsome tribute, while its British counterpart Music Week chimed in with an item that you missed if you blinked. The number of session...
- The Music Business - A Legal Perspective.
- Magazine article from: Notes Carter, Robert R., Jr. March 1, 1996 700+ words
...the only reference book about the music business was This Business of Music by Sidney...notable All You Need to Know about the Music Business, by Donald S. Passman (2d ed. New...user-friendly. Peter Muller's The Music Business - A Legal Perspective joins this newer...
