CHEAP TRICK Manager Tries To Find A Way Around The Nielsen Soundscan "Racket"
February 27, 2010, 14 years ago
In a blog that comes to BW&BK; courtesy of Howard Wyman at Crawdaddy.com, CHEAP TRICK's manager Dave Frey explains "how Soundscan hurts artists by compiling and then selling their information to other record labels and music sellers, who then use it to cannibalize and undercut sales of new albums by way of predatory marketing for their own cheap, outdated wares." An excerpt from Frey's blog is available below:
"I am a manager. One of my clients is a band called Cheap Trick. They have been together for 35 years and basically play shows and make recordings.Though the public is clearly buying singles and not CDs, they record songs in clusters. They can prepare/rehearse them, get good instrument sounds, and realize other savings through efficiency. Once a good drum sound is finally dialed in, why not record a group of songs?
Anyway the band self released a collection of songs on 8-track, LP, CD, and digitally, called The Latest last summer. And since then the biggest thing I've learned is the power, (and price), of the band's fan information."
Go to the complete blog on Tunecore.com here.
