Comments on: Warner’s Mistakes

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Wed, 07 Apr 2010 16:48:07 +0000

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By: Allister

Allister — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:42:57 +0000

I can personally attest to the fact that you don’t need major labels. Independent artists have been producing brilliant music for years and all you need to do to discover them is check out some music podcasts.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:40:36 +0000

“Warner caught in self-centred teleology shocker”

By: Where Worlds Collide » Blog Archive » Götterdämmerung for the Major Record Labels

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 12:20:58 +0000

[...] EMI apparently about to go belly-up, and Warner Group pulling out of streaming sites (Which strikes me as an act of desperation), we seem to be approaching the endgame of their battle [...]

By: Steve thack

Steve thack — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:54:14 +0000

Well there are more artists i want to check out on spotify than i’ll ever have time for and still will be if warner with draw all their acts. And if thats what they do good luck to their acts if they want my attention. Radio? Think i’ve only in the last year deliberatly listened to shows when mates bands were on live. Otherwised its something in background at work – not overly likely to sell me an album. Maybe warner only want to sell established acts, and maybe they fear half of them have albums so piss poor no one will buy if they hear them first. Sounds like smaller acts would be advised to work out how to force warner to drop them.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:14:14 +0000

I dunno about this.

I was initially very excited about services like Spotify and it’s currently my main source of discovery and general listening. But what if all the majors pull out of all of these kind of services?

I will have to aquire my music from somewhere and I don’t really want to have to go back to torrents and all that hassle.

By: Matt Stevens

Matt Stevens — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:46:56 +0000

Imagine being an artist signed to Warners and not having a choice about all this. Viva independence.

By: Laura Kidd

Laura Kidd — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:45:12 +0000

It really is like watching ol’ Stegosaurus blundering about in the undergrowth isn’t it. But at least people might be waking up to the idea that major labels haven’t been interested in the needs/hopes/dreams of the artist for many years, only their potential to make money for the evil empire.

By: Tim Hall

Tim Hall — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:02:55 +0000

I don’t think Warner Bros are being as much stupid as cynical and evil.

I believe they *do* understand the benefits of discovery, and are against it, because under a free discovery model they will lose business to competitors. Ultimately the consumer has a finite amount of money to spend on music, and money spent on independent artists is money not spent on Warner Bros artists.

They’ve bet their business on a model that revolves around maximising sales of the smallest possible roster of artists. Free discovery undermines that model.

Not that they’ll win. They majors have already lost the war, they just don’t know it yet.

By: Wayne Jordan

Wayne Jordan — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:51:11 +0000

@warner bros Once upon a time this was all fields etc. ad nauseum