Capitol Congress by The Bob Lefsetz Podcast published on 2018-09-18T17:09:28Z This week, we shift our attention to Bob’s analysis of today’s music industry. Bob was invited to speak at Capitol Records’ Capitol Congress event at the ArcLight theater in Hollywood on the topic of “change”. He reminds a packed audience of music business professionals to look to the future because the past is never coming back. In today’s on-demand culture distribution is king and now is the time to focus on content. Genre Business Comment by Scott Kirby Bob is a smart guy. Really Smart. But like George Howard another smart guy, he fails to talk about GETTING RID of the major labels. He talks about Spotify signing artists (GOOD!!) but the next is to address that what the major labels offer is no longer essential for an artists success and they should be relegated to the scrap heap. He needs to talk about getting to a world where ARTISTS control their own music product and Spotify makes more than the major labels. They should; they are vastly more imortant. 2018-11-24T19:16:35Z Comment by Scott Kirby BOB artists also - if they sign to a major label - do NOT want to be held captives by the label they sign with forever. They want to retain their copyrights and publishing after 35 years. And the 1976 Copyright reversion act agrees with them 2018-11-24T19:09:16Z Comment by Scott Kirby BUT so far Bob does not address how unecessary the major labels are but how much control they have? WHY? 2018-11-24T18:43:47Z
