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September 10, 2003

What music slump?

I kept looking for one of the multiple sources I remembered seeing about the steady climb of Indie artist music sales, alas I couldn’t find the online source, and two of them were from print only publications. Luckily I stumbled across Ken Layne who pointed me to a Lynne Margolis article.

“While executives at those labels wail about the industry’s imminent collapse, indie labels and artists are singing a much happier tune. Profits are up - in some cases by 50 to 100 percent. That’s in contrast to overall album sales, which dropped about 11 percent in 2002.”

Of course my favorite line—

“Another secret of their success is that the labels target consumers - namely, adults - who are still willing to pay for their music, rather than download it for free.”

A few online resources if you’re looking to discover some indie label music online:

  • RIAA Radar – Check to see if an album is supporting RIAA. Or check a category or maybe the Top 100 Indies to find RIAA free artists and albums.
  • Kris Delmhorst – I mentioned her in a previous entry, but I will mention it again because I am really enjoying her music. (thanks Phil)
  • Epiphanycorp.com – RIAA free net-radio “call it downtempo, triphop, ambient groove, ambient techno, intelligent dance music ? the best of this music is a great mix of many flavors. It?s all just good groove.”
  • Six Degrees Records – ”eclectic, independent music label that produces and markets genre-bending, accessible recordings that explore world music, ambient, folk, contemporary classical and intelligent pop music”
  • Epitonic.com – “goth, noise, electronica, techno, punk, indie rock, darkwave, no wave, jungle, hardcore, world music, and things we would dare never even classify”
  • Proost - Indie Christian Music

I really hope this trend continues… RIAA might become more and more irrellevant as consumers and artists route around the problem.

Posted by Eric at September 10, 2003 09:42 AM | TrackBack
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