I did that in ONE DAY in the 60's.

Ged Doherty very interesting at ITC - excerpts in Music Week this week.

Even so, I bet there are some who would love to sell that many copies these days.

We are most definitely in the age of the long tail and with sales to collapse even further in the years to come it is time for all in the music industry particularly in the artists/management side of things to sit up and take notice.

You cannot build your artists' career on record sales anymore and a new business model needs to emerge for artists. This model should revolve around the artist as an individual entity whereby you can plug in the following:

Youtube (and it's successors)
Myspace
Itunes and all the rest
PAs and gigs
Merchandise Sold directly from Ebay
Retail merchandise
Publishing

The major way the public will be consuming music is free to the consumer. So make the most of licensing
material to the peddlers of freebie content.

One has to applaud the majors for their sneaky Youtube deal even though it sucks for artists. It opens up one reality and that is the importance of a collective with clout and a big stick to beat up
on those who dare to use our content for free without
paying for it.

Where is the equivalent of the PFA (Professional Footballers association) ?
Who is looking after artists interests and ensuring
all including record labels pay artists for their
copyright.

This is an exciting time which i have seen coming for
a while and have come to terms with.

Now i will predict that the free download/streaming
on Youtube in its next incarnation when there are
licenses in place that is enforceable and pays all
creators and rights owners, will be more important
than the OCC charts.

The music industry needs to establish a standard and
an easy rights management system for these type of sites.
Welcome to the future of music guys.

I want my mpFREE !

The 80s mTV ruled
The 00s MpFREE rules.

Lets monetise this and make lots of money.

Can I steal it?

NICE slogan.

DJKZ, you should register that slogan as a trademark.

more about the future of the music industry from Peter Jenner:
Big labels are f*cked, and DRM is dead
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/03/peter_jenner/

You certainly can JK.