Monthly Archive for May, 2011

NEXT….

After 11 great years in the Warner Music Group, it’s time for me to move on to the next Chapter in my life!

I spent five years running new media at Maverick Records, and over six years in digital at Warner Bros Records, and I leave proud of what I’ve accomplished, and grateful for the relationships I’ve developed.

Working with the best Artists in the world is a once in a lifetime opportunity and a dream come true for me.

I wish the best to WMG, Lyor, Rob, Livia and Todd, and cant wait to see what they do next. To all the great people past and present at Warner – ill miss you!

I hope my “next” will be equally as exciting and productive.

I’ll be sharing my plans over the next few months right here, and you can contact me – leave a comment here or on my facebook.

I leave you with one of the first Artists who took my crazy digital ideas seriously…

JASON DERULO ACCEPTS “THUMBS UP” AWARD FROM TIM WESTERGEN FOR 10 MIILIONTH THUMBS UP ON PANDORA

This is from the Pandora Office in Oakland. Time gave Jason a great demo of Pandroa’s methodology for classifying songs. Tim is a great speaker about his vision for the service, and how it works.

YOUTUBE LAUNCHES MUSIC VIDEO TOP 100 CHART

Youtube’s music page features a new chart of the top 100 music videos on their site.


The YouTube 100 measures song traffic across official music videos, user-uploaded videos and viral debuts, and uses this data to provide a holistic view of song popularity.

A quick reveiew of the new feature

- Ability to “play” the chart is a nice feature, and youtube is clearly trying to make aspects of the service work for listening and watching – the top 100 is also a great music playlist.

- The top 100 almost all established artists and hit songs. There are only a few non traditional clips, and a few lyric videos in the top 100

- Global Chart? Its not 100% clear if im getting a localized chart, but there was a nice mix on international content on the chart.

I hope you tube continues to expand here. Expanding the depth of content, perhaps sub charts in different genres, UGC only, vs official, cover songs etc.

http://www.youtube.com/music

GANG GEAR VIA YOUTUBE: Insignias y Uniformes del Narco

A clip that appears to be gan cartel’s blinged out guns, gear and cocky logos.