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@The Cody Simpson – The Power of Tweeting

Mo Better — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 16:15:50 +0000

Last week I met a kid that a friend of mine mentioned over 8 months ago, would blow up on the music scene. His name… Cody Simpson. Cody is a well spoken 14 year old singer, songwriter, surfer, from Australia who is now signed to a major label. I had dinner with him, his Dad, a few friends and family at a local Memphis Italian spot called Amerigo. We talked about the music biz, surfing, Australia, and finally twitter came up. Now Cody is still a kid, and kids do crazy things. Cody says he has a lot of followers (he was being modest, he had 950,000 at dinner) following him @TheCodySimpson. So to prove he has real fans he decided to tweet that he was having dinner with me, @MoBetter and a few others at the table and told his fans to follows us. What happened next was pure madness… for the next 12 hours my damn iphone almost melted because a 14 year old told people he was having dinner with me and to follow me on twitter. I never thought it would take a 14 year old to make me popular again. In a little over a day, my followers increased by 1,000. I am still getting followers and retweets from that one night with @TheCodySimpson. What have I learned from all of this? Its not what you say on twitter that matters, it only matters who you say it to, and who the hell is saying it.

The Gaga Effect: Amazon’s 99 Cent Gaga Album Debate

Mo Better — Fri, 27 May 2011 14:17:36 +0000

Lady Gaga just dropped a new album and the music industry will be tainted forever because Amazon.com lost their minds by offering the whole album for $.99 per download. Want to know how bad this is… I will let a letter from Stephanie Smith sum it up and let you know what Billboard Magazine’s response was to a claim that Lady Gaga’s album would sell 1 Million copies the first week.

Record Store Day

Mo Better — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 20:49:33 +0000

The original idea for Record Store Day was conceived by Chris Brown, and was founded in 2007 by Eric Levin, Michael Kurtz, Carrie Colliton, Amy Dorfman, Don Van Cleave and Brian Poehner as a celebration of the unique culture surrounding over 700 independently owned record stores in the USA, and hundreds of similar stores internationally.

This is the one day that all of the independently owned record stores come together with artists to celebrate the art of music. Special vinyl and CD releases and various promotional products are made exclusively for the day and hundreds of artists in the United States and in various countries across the globe make special appearances and performances. Festivities include performances, cook-outs, body painting, meet & greets with artists, parades, djs spinning records and on and on. Metallica officially kicked off Record Store Day at Rasputin Music in San Francisco on April 19, 2008 and Record Store Day is now celebrated the third Saturday every April.

Record Store Day is currently managed by Eric Levin, Michael Kurtz, Melanie Nipper, and Carrie Colliton. Folks wanting to contact Record Store Day are encouraged to email information@recordstoreday.com

NOTE:

A Record Store Day participating store is defined as a retailer whose main primary business focuses on a physical store location, whose product line consists of at least 50% music retail, whose company is not publicly traded and whose ownership is at least 70% located in the state of operation. (In other words, we’re dealing with real, live, physical, indie record stores—not online retailers or corporate behemoths).

The Battle For Digital Royalties

Mo Better — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 21:28:29 +0000

If you are a recording artist or a manager and have major label distribution read all the articles and thank Eminem next time you see him…

Amazon Cloud, good or bad?

Mo Better — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 17:30:29 +0000

Now that Amazon has launched their cloud service, do you even know what to do with it? What will content and music publishers think of it? Let’s look deeper into the cloud…

Spotlight: Wiz Khalifa

Mo Better — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 16:07:28 +0000

Yesterday we conducted a Meet & Eat with Wiz Khalifa at the Music Resource Center in Memphis. Good turnout, great food, and a Q&A session with Wiz that was insightful and real. But who is the Real Wiz Khalifa, let’s find out…

Chris Brown Goes Wild

Mo Better — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 20:03:25 +0000

Just when it seems like Chris Brown has transformed his image… Bam! He loses his damn mind. Look at him now…

What’s The Deal With Performance Radio Royalties?

Mo Better — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 16:50:30 +0000

President Obama officially backed Performance Radio Royalties, which would require radio station to pay a royalty to artists. Let’s look at the history of this fight…

Death Of A Pop Star

Mo Better — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 16:31:29 +0000

I was on the phone with a friend at a record label a few weeks ago talking about album sales, to his amazement he didn’t know why the new David Banner and 9th Wonder album “Death Of A Pop Star” was not selling. My first reaction was, “David Banner has a new album?” Then I heard the first single featuring Ludacris, “Be With You” and was like oh shit a fucking classic. But I do know why he isn’t selling. Why? His current label might have missed the fact that this album is unlike anything Mr. Banner has ever done. His core fans will be lost with this real hip hop project with Banner flowing over beats by the legend 9th Wonder. If you are a real fan of hip hop, go buy this album, which is spiritual from beginning to end and might scare some people because Banner speaks some shit that everyone else is afraid to discuss.

From the first track on the album, “Diamonds On My Pinky” DB spits a line that made me play it over and over …”I’m from Mississippi where you let your nuts hang, and where the white folks let my ancestors do the same.”

Enough of my words… go to your local store if you’re still into CD’s or download the album from itunes by clicking below.

David Banner & 9th Wonder “Death Of A Pop Star” available on itunes.

Best of 2010

Mo Better — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 20:04:20 +0000

2010 was a year of change in popular music, and for better or worse, the most memorable news stories of the year reflected the rise and fall of many of music’s biggest stars. Eminem’s comeback returned him to the top of hip-hop, while T.I. failed to leave his legal troubles behind. Justin Bieber’s music met with big success, but M.I.A.’s met with disappointment. As young starlets like Miley Cyrus and Demi Lovato had trouble growing up in the spotlight, Taylor Swift soared past expectations at the Grammys and on the Billboard 200. Check out our time capsule of 2010′s biggest news stories, and tell us which ones you’ll remember the most in the comments section at the bottom of the page. (Note: all sales figures are according to Nielsen SoundScan.)

For the complete story click below.

Source: Billboard.com