What Are Your Music Industry Predictions For ’09?
It’s been quite a year for the music industry and I’ve been working on my list of predictions for 2009. I’d say about 60% of what I wrote last year (A Look Back At Hypebot’s Predictions For 2008) came true. I’m not sure if that should be considered a success or or not.
But as I worked on my music industry predictions for 2009, what are yours? Do you think that one of the four major labels go under or merge? Will iTunes finally go DRM free? What major artists will go D.I.Y. in 2009? Will MYSpace Music become a legitimate revenue stream? Will YouTube grow or fade?
What are your Music Industry Predictions For 2009?
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The beginnings of cloud computing hold my music.
The empowerment of fans driving live concerts through fan generated ‘private concerts’. For the fans, by the fans will be the next big movement in live music. See http://www.privateconcerts.com/blog for more informations!!!
Prediction? Pain.
-Clubber Lang
No just kidding,
I think and hope that the major labels will all declare Chapter 11, which in turn will end the funding to the RIAA, which in turn will free up content providers to deliver what fans want instead of what Stalinist labels think is marketable, which in turn will bring great music back to the forefront of pop culture, which will in turn free up some cash for digital partners to upgrade the resolution of their product to full res DSD which will in turn send people clamoring for those great sounding masters which will in turn end the tyranny of the CD and usher in a no carbon music manufacturing industry around the same time that solar and hydrogen and wind come on line, people stop believing in god, stop killing each other, learn math and then alien life from the Andromeda Galaxy will land in Brooklyn and say something like, “We never thought you’d get here…want the cure for cancer and some other bad stuff.”
Oh yeah and The Frames will be on the top of the charts.
Much No Physical Future,
brendan b brown
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