You’re On Your Own
There is no brass ring. There is no gold star. All the trappings of making it in the past are gone. Today, you make it in your own mind, and…
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The Bob Lefsetz Podcast: Seymour Stein
I was at a gig last week and a promoter told me young agents had never heard of Bob Sillerman. That was a turning point in the touring business, when…
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Advertising
It’s not 2005 anymore, certainly not 2010, virality is dead, bubbling up from the bottom doesn’t exist, and the big get bigger. For a while there it looked like Madison…
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Op-Ed: Don’t Get Confused By The News
Spotify’s in trouble, its licenses are going to expire! Nicki Minaj produced a tweetstorm about Spotify, claiming the company put the kibosh on her album! Music distribution is mature. The…
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Bob Lefsetz On Aretha (With Responses From The Industry – Toni Tenille, Marhsall Crenshaw, Bruce Allen, Etc.)
“Hey nineteen That’s ‘Retha Franklin She don’t remember the Queen of Soul” That was recorded by Steely Dan in 1980, when Aretha already appeared to be in the rearview mirror.…
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Touring vs. Labels
The script has flipped, record companies no longer drive the business, they get all the press, but the question is not how many streams you have, but how many tickets…
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Paul McCartney At The Capitol Congress
“You can see all the stars as you walk down Hollywood Boulevard Some that you recognize, some that you’ve hardly even heard of” “Celluloid Heroes” The Kinks: https://spoti.fi/2OUAQBG Paul McCartney…
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The Bob Lefsetz Podcast: Jim McCarthy
He runs Goldstar. Don’t know what Goldstar is? Go to goldstar.com and sign up, it’s free! And what will you find there? Events. Goldstar is in the events business. Turning…
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2018 Rules
There are no rules, the infrastructure’s been built, now is the time to follow your vision, don’t listen to naysayers, don’t listen to me, you will break through with your…
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