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Moby blasts his own record company ...
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| SuperJimbo |
Moby blasts his own record company for not allowing their tracks to be sold on Beatport...
september 29, 2008
i'm writing this as a sort-of open letter to the people at emi.
i'm signed to mute records(for the last 15 years, actually), and as mute is owned
by emi that makes me an emi artist.
as some of you might know, the record business is falling apart.
revenues are down, cd sales are plummeting, people are losing their jobs, etc.
things at the record companies, especially the major labels, aren't looking so good.
one bright spot in this dismal retail firmament is the sale of music on-line through
portals like i-tunes.
the dance music equivalent of i-tunes is a site called beatport.
beatport, and other similar sites, enables you to preview dance tracks and then, if you like, buy them.
the average cost for a track on beatport is twice or three times the cost of a track on i-tunes(which
makes sense, as the tracks are a lot longer).
emi happily allow their music to be sold on i-tunes, but they don't allow their(and, by extension, my)music
to be sold on portals like beatport.
for over a year now i've been asking people at emi why they won't allow their electronic
dance music to be sold on beatport and i still haven't received a good answer.
one might think that in a time of rapidly dwindling revenues that a viable
and proven outlet like beatport might be greeted ecstatically at emi and the major labels.
but no.
very simply, i don't know why emi won't allow their(and my) dance tracks to be sold on beatport(for
an average cost of around $2.00 per track), but i do know that by not allowing their
electronic dance music to be sold on beatport that emi have denied themselves
very considerable revenue and have limited the audience for their electronic
dance artists(not to mention remixes done for their non-electronic dance artists, like
radiohead and coldplay).
many dj's live in urban areas with great indie-dance shops, and many dj's buy vinyl
and cd's on-line from great indie-dance shops, but there are thousands and thousands
of dj's who pretty much only buy their music from sites like beatport.
and with emi refusing to allow beatport(and similar sites)to sell their music it basically
means that tens of thousands of dj's around the world don't have access to any of
the dance records being released by mute and emi artists.
so this is my letter to anyone at emi who might be reading: by not allowing your music to be
sold on sites like beatport you are losing money daily and seriously compromising the careers
of your electronic artists(like, for example, the chemical brothers, me, massive attack, etc).
i can't see why you(the people at emi)wouldn't remedy this immediately and allow
people to buy your records on beatport and similar sites.
thanks
moby
http://www.moby.com/journal/2008-09...people-emi.html |
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| msz |
| beatport gouging prices are so nice.. |
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| El K Dee |
yea all legendary electronic artists under the big 4 arent on BP... i was lucky enough to buy Oasis - Falling Down (Chemical Brothers mix)during the short while it was up but then when i suggested others to check it out, it was gone....not nice..
there are alot of classics i want to buy on BP by these artists cos the last thing i want to do is make a ing i tunes account and get the music in DRM slapped m4a format |
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| Owen M |
and your answer, Moby is...
| quote: | Originally posted by El K Dee
... i tunes account and get the music in DRM slapped m4a format |
when www.djdownload.com, www.beatport.com and the like, start locking up their music so it's harder to share then I'm sure we'll see a change.
Until then, we'll just steal music from "the big 4" and continue to buy music where it's most easily available in our prefered format. If you make it hard to buy, we'll take it for free.
edit: Good on Moby for pushing his label to get with the times. |
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| Naruepol |
| good for moby,if you cant accept change than your business will fail. |
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| Djsketchbag |
| seriously wtf, why would emi be cutting themselves short especialy since their artists are asking to be put on beatport |
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| El K Dee |
| quote: | Originally posted by Owen M
and your answer, Moby is...
when www.djdownload.com, www.beatport.com and the like, start locking up their music so it's harder to share then I'm sure we'll see a change.
Until then, we'll just steal music from "the big 4" and continue to buy music where it's most easily available in our prefered format. If you make it hard to buy, we'll take it for free.
edit: Good on Moby for pushing his label to get with the times. |
well beatport and dj download are meant for djs and u cant really be flexible with DRM based formats as a DJ....neither can u put DRM on a WAV file |
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