According to various news & blogs like mashable:
“The Internet’s completely over,” he said. “I don’t see why I should give my new music to iTunes or anyone else. They won’t pay me an advance for it, and then they get angry when they can’t get it.”
Prince’s new album, 20TEN, will be released as a CD to Mirror readers and the readers of various other print publications in Europe. It might be distributed via Warner Bros. in the U.S. This will be the artist’s 27th release.
Seriously, Prince is either a futurist or a singer who given up the future of the internet. In the past, record labels had signed up singers & rappers everywhere hoping for just one singer or a band to have a super hit album that can hit the charts & earn millions of dollars of CD sales more.
These days of the internet world it’s totally different, new singers makes their own music videos that place it in youtube that turns viral with google advertisements attached giving some subsistence to their talents & get gigs easily after that.
Prince either a very smart marketer or a very sore loser when he realized that people are using his songs on youtube, he freaked out and asked youtube to take it down….but the when people uses music on their videos in fact PROMOTES the music instead!
The past viral music video from the “JK Wedding Entrance Dance” spike the sales of the music used in that video!
My advice to Prince is to give up the traditional medium of advertising, break your record company contracts & release FREE music for budding musicians to mix your music covers & publish on youtube but negotiate with youtube to have a cut in the advertising returns from each videos if that is possible & NOTIFY the content creators that PART of the advertising revenues goes to the original music creator.
GIVE IT FREE! But of course states the rights of use as Creative commons with proper revenue streams via advertising.
The above revenue streams to content creators will also apply to Movies, Podcast, Music and others like television series.
People will get your music FREE legally spread them like WILD FIRE and EARN!
