The Nashville Feed

I've got a bunch of links to share and enlightn you today. CRS (Country Radio Seminar) is this week in Nashville and all the Music Industry here is focused on that. So todays linkfest is heavy on radio and where it's going. Do you even listen to the radio anymore? I do but mainly talk on NPR. Maybe I'm getting old. Enjoy!

Radio's S.O.S. - Portfolio.com
As CBS earnings show, cheap and limitless internet options are undermining broadcasters' business models.

Requiem for Old-Time Radio - Business Week
Hit hard by the music world's fragmentation, it's handicapped in making a Web transition

Music exec: "Music 1.0 is dead." arstechnica.com - (In case you missed this last week.)
Five hundred top members of the music business gathered today in New York to hear that "music 1.0 is dead." Ted Cohen, a former EMI exec who used the phrase, opened the Digital Music Forum East by pleading with the industry to be wildly creative with new business models but not to "be desperate" during this transitional period.

More teenagers ignoring CDs, report says- LA Times
48% of teenagers bought no CDs at all in 2007, up from 38% in 2006. Music downloads continue to grow, though, with iTunes leading the way.

RIAA plays both sides of the street in music royalty debate - arstechnica.com
Readers will no doubt be shocked—shocked—to hear that the RIAA works for its own self-interest, but a recent Public Knowledge piece suggests that the organization is being more than usually self-interested in two current debates.

SXSW Showcasing Music Torrents
The following are torrents that contain all the released music from the annual South by Southwest music festival in Austin, TX.

According to New Study, Musicians Like to Sing About Drugs and Sex - Rolling Stone (File this under "no duh")
According to a new study conducted by medical researchers, thirty-three percent of popular songs contain explicit content and forty-two percent of songs hint at substance abuse. Rap was the most frequent offender, with seventy-seven percent of songs making reference to drugs or sex, with country music a surprising silver medalist with a thirty-six percent explicit content rate.

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