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• Nick 9:05 pm on December 2, 2009 Permalink  

  Narm Profiles the Lifestyles of “Super Fans” 

  

  When 4Chan forum members hacked Time Magazine’s poll about the 100 most influential people and crowned the forum’s founder, Moot, king of all media it was an example of obsessive fandom influencing the mainstream. A quick perusal of Youtube will find fan created music videos with hundreds of thousands of views. Who are these “Super Fans”? How do they drive the interwebs? These questions and more are at the heart of music industry think tank Narm’s new survey of such Super Fans, which collects data from over 5,000 hardcore devotees. Check it out here..

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• Nick 9:00 pm on December 2, 2009 Permalink  

  Incompetent Accounting For The Digital Age 

  

  Like most bands on majors Too Much Joy never recouped the advances invested in them by their label. Unlike most bands one of Too Much Joy’s members, Tim Quirk, works for a digital music service and is business savvy enough to track the sales Too Much Joy have made on the internet. What he found was rather astonishing: Too Much Joy were not even receiving royalties from Warner for sales of their album online until prodded. After being bothered Warner finally paid up except what they paid was about $10,000 less than Too Much Joy owed, a paltry sum of 62 bucks. According to Quirk when he questioned a Warner music employee about the companies dishonest accounting practices he was informed “Too Much Joy never earned us shit!,” as if a band’s lack of profitability makes their contract unimportant. For the full spiel click here.

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