By Hans Ebert @hanseberthk So, you’ve recorded some songs. Great. Creative outlets always lead one away from darkness and into some form of shining light. But what do you plan to do with these songs? Even with a record label behind you, what can they do for these songs? Really. And if you’ve managed to [...]
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WHY THE MUSIC INDUSTRY NEEDS TO BE TRUMPED
Posted: 14th November 2016 by We-Enhance in Beatles, India Music Market, Music, Music Industry, Music Marketing, Music Matters, iTunesTags: Berry Gordy, Gorillaz, Howlin’ Wolf, Jay-Z, Lady Gaga, MADONNA, Muddy Waters, Placebo, Robbie Williams, Robert Johnson
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MUSIC AND THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
Posted: 5th November 2016 by We-Enhance in EMI, Entertainment Industry, India Music Market, MUSIC AND POLITICS, Marketing, Music, Music Industry, Music Marketing, Music Matters, iTunesTags: Alain Levy, David Munns, EMI, EMI Music, Guy Hands, MARIAH CAREY, Napster, Robbie Williams, Sony Music, UNIVERSAL MUSIC, Warner Music
By Hans Ebert It’s reached a point where it’s not even a case of Them versus Us. It’s finally come around to how to get around legalese that were questionable from the start, but which many were too timid to question, especially at those tribal gatherings of wannabe big swinging dicks who would waltz in [...]
AND NOW WHAT?
Posted: 15th July 2016 by We-Enhance in Music, Music Industry, iTunesTags: Adele, Brian Wilson, BRITNEY SPEARS, Ed Sheeran, FERGIE, George Martin, J-Lo, Jennifer Lopez, KATY PERRY, LED ZEPPELIN, Phil Spector, PINK FLOYD, Quincy Jones, Rihanna, Taylor Swift, The Age Of The MILF, The Beatles, The Stones, THE WHO
By Hans Ebert Remember bands? You know, 4-5 guys who played guitars, drums and maybe keyboards with one lead singer who would play with his big hair, and always have the urge to grab his crotch and scream out in a high-pitched voice about back doors and lemons while the guitarist would pose and preen [...]
SETTING SAIL ON MEMORY BLISS (BUT NOT DWELLING ON THE PAST)
Posted: 19th June 2016 by We-Enhance in Marketing, Music, Music Industry, Music Marketing, iTunesTags: Calvin Harris, Calvin Klein, Katie Holmes, KIM KARDASHIAN, Perez Hilton, Sony Music, Taylor Swift, Tom Hiddlestone, Tony Visconti
By Hans Ebert You really don’t want to get drawn into the soap opera surrounding the characters involved, but there’s no escaping any of it. None of it has anything to do with music, but social media has sadly made the most stupid of things become news- and in a roundabout instance, this has become [...]
WHAT DO MUSIC PUBLISHING HOUSES ACTUALLY, WELL, DO?
Posted: 10th May 2016 by We-Enhance in Entertainment Industry, India Music Market, Marketing, Music, Music Industry, Music Marketing, Music Matters, Simon Cowell, iTunesTags: music companies, OneDirection, Simon Cowell, streaming music
By Hans Ebert Whoever are in these offices have worked in this lazy, meandering way for decades. They’re like hamsters going around and around that little treadmill before its time to retire, and leave with a nice golden handshake for having survived by keeping their heads down and not rocking the boat. This breed of [...]
THE $284 ROYALTY CHEQUE AND WHAT’S LUCIAN GRAINGE GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?
Posted: 10th September 2015 by We-Enhance in ASIAN MUSIC INDUSTRY, Asia, BEN SEMMENS, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Music Industry, Music, Music Industry, iTunesTags: Ben Semmens, Hans Ebert, Saving The Music, Sony Music, Universal Music Publishing
My friend Ben Semmens and I received a Royalty cheque last week from Universal Music Publishing in Hong Kong for HK$284. This was after months of hounding the publishing house for a statement of “monies earned to date” for our song called “Home”, not the most original of titles in this hashtag and Google-centric world, [...]
THE DEATH OF MUSIC
Posted: 15th August 2015 by We-Enhance in Beatles, Entertainment Industry, Facebook, Music, Music Industry, Music Marketing, iTunesTags: A Hard Days Night, Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, DYLAN, E!, Gimme Shelter, Honky Tonk Women, I Should Have Known Better, Little Richard, music and technology, Satisfaction, Scientology, The Beatles, the Crickets, The Stones
Music is a secret door to our past. It’s that simple. But, somehow, and somewhere over the rainbow, it’s been so over-complicated that it has lost its innocence, its heart, its soul and its reason for being. It’s what happens when something so personal becomes a business, and that business, needing to grow, feeds one [...]
WHERE DID THE MUSIC GO? (AND WHAT’S WITH ALL THESE CHARTS?)
Posted: 25th July 2015 by We-Enhance in Entertainment Industry, Jennifer Lopez, Marketing, Music, Music Industry, Music Marketing, iTunesTags: Apple music, Beach Boys, Ben Semmens, Bruno Mars, CHRIS BROWN, Coldplay, Don Henley, ELLEN DEGENERES, J-Lo, Jefferson Airplane, KATY PERRY, Keith Richard, Monkees, Perez Hilton, Radiohead, Sam Smith, Taylor Swift, the Byrds, Turtles, Vanilla Fudge, YouTube
If it wasn’t just so sad, it would be funny, but as this is written, Chris Brown has been released after being held hostage in the Philippines for three days for “unpaid bills”, there’s some kinda bad blood between Taylor Swift and Katy Perry over a song called, well, “Bad Blood”, there is absolutely way [...]
TAYLOR SWIFT IS NOW BIGGER THAN JAY Z, AND, BUT…
Posted: 28th June 2015 by We-Enhance in BOB DYLAN, Music, Music Matters, iTunesTags: Ahmet Ertegun, Berry Gordy Jr, Beyonce, Bob Dylan, Chris Blackwell, Dave Marsh, E!, Greil Marcus, Harry Styles, Jay-Z, Joe Jonas, John Lennon, John Mayer, Kanye West, LED ZEPPELIN, Lester Bangs, Rihanna, Taylor Swift
It’s been swift in more ways than one- the rise and rise of fabulously popular and successful singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, 25, who’s gone from being almost a serial “dumpee” whose queue of short-lived romances have led to a series of Big Hurt songs, to now being hailed as something like the Joan Of Arc [...]