Daniel Ek of Spotify and Casey Rae Hunter of FMC:
Casey: What role do you think Spotify might play in artists revenue streams?
Daniel: not sure this is going to remain the way it is, if you look at my native country Sweden we've got 90% of the population using broadband, 50% are using spotify, Bit Torrent traffic is down. We're growing 50-70% in revenues to the artists month to month.
Brian Message, manager of Radiohead and others:
"Recorded music is still the language between artists and fans. If you pass that control over to someone else, it's very easy to do that, it's not so good. Certainly we have found with a number of our artists, they understand we live or die now by they we do, not the management. For example, instead of The Rifles hanging out backstage after a show they go sign merch, fans love it.
Via Twitter:
- RT @tbquirk: Metadata Joke: if someone names his band Various Artists, he'll make a lot of money from soundexchange, etc #fmc09
- RT @lindsaydoll: At a panel in future of music journalism.. "content is no longer king. The audience is king." #fmc09
