I bumped into Joe Simpson tonight at Madison Square Garden...at the John Mayer concert.
He had his name written on his shoes. I kid you not.
2.28.2007
2.23.2007
team lachey
After a nasty divorce, Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey both released solo records and it was widely reported that Nick's debut week sales (171k) beat Jessica's (100k).
UPDATE: Nick's album has sold just under 600k to date, while Jessica has moved a PATHETIC 286k.
Ouch.
UPDATE: Nick's album has sold just under 600k to date, while Jessica has moved a PATHETIC 286k.
Ouch.
2.20.2007
i am dee bee
American Idol Films
1. Bald Guy Gets Robbed II starring Phil Stacey (2008) (filming)
2. Bald Guy Gets Robbed starring Chris Daughtry (2007) (post-production)
3. From Justin to Kelly (2003)
NEXT.
jobs on women
Although his statistics may be misleading, I can't knock him for his fashion sense...
...or his taste in women. Respek, Steve.
via JB
2.19.2007
jobs on music
Steve Jobs recently stirred the DRM pot:
"Some have argued that once a consumer purchases a body of music from one of the proprietary music stores, they are forever locked into only using music players from that one company. Or, if they buy a specific player, they are locked into buying music only from that company’s music store. Is this true? Let’s look at the data for iPods and the iTunes store – they are the industry’s most popular products and we have accurate data for them. Through the end of 2006, customers purchased a total of 90 million iPods and 2 billion songs from the iTunes store. On average, that’s 22 songs purchased from the iTunes store for each iPod ever sold."
Ok let's regroup. 90 million people have bought iPods. Check. And each of those people bought exactly one iPod. Got it.
"Today’s most popular iPod holds 1000 songs, and research tells us that the average iPod is nearly full. This means that only 22 out of 1000 songs, or under 3% of the music on the average iPod, is purchased from the iTunes store and protected with a DRM. The remaining 97% of the music is unprotected and playable on any player that can play the open formats. It’s hard to believe that just 3% of the music on the average iPod is enough to lock users into buying only iPods in the future. And since 97% of the music on the average iPod was not purchased from the iTunes store, iPod users are clearly not locked into the iTunes store to acquire their music."
Right, Steve.
"Some have argued that once a consumer purchases a body of music from one of the proprietary music stores, they are forever locked into only using music players from that one company. Or, if they buy a specific player, they are locked into buying music only from that company’s music store. Is this true? Let’s look at the data for iPods and the iTunes store – they are the industry’s most popular products and we have accurate data for them. Through the end of 2006, customers purchased a total of 90 million iPods and 2 billion songs from the iTunes store. On average, that’s 22 songs purchased from the iTunes store for each iPod ever sold."
Ok let's regroup. 90 million people have bought iPods. Check. And each of those people bought exactly one iPod. Got it.
"Today’s most popular iPod holds 1000 songs, and research tells us that the average iPod is nearly full. This means that only 22 out of 1000 songs, or under 3% of the music on the average iPod, is purchased from the iTunes store and protected with a DRM. The remaining 97% of the music is unprotected and playable on any player that can play the open formats. It’s hard to believe that just 3% of the music on the average iPod is enough to lock users into buying only iPods in the future. And since 97% of the music on the average iPod was not purchased from the iTunes store, iPod users are clearly not locked into the iTunes store to acquire their music."
Right, Steve.
bob lefsetz
mama i made it
Hi. My name is Brian, and this is my blog. I like music and life in New York City. I'll probably write a lot about those two things. Feel free to leave your comments.
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