This Week in Music - Jim Donio, President of NARM

Jim Donio, President of NARM, joins Ian Rogers via Skype to talk about how music retail has changed over the past 20 years. Since 1958, The National Association of Recording Merchandisers has represented retailers, wholesalers, and now technology companies in selling recorded music. Jim and Ian speak about the evolution of that process over the past decades, as well as NARM's future initiatives in working with new technologies.


00:45 - Introducing Jim Donio
02:18 - What kind of companies are members of NARM?
04:11 - Jim Donio discusses the history of music retail
09:14 - Jim and Ian discuss the history of the CD
11:14 - Jim talks about NARM moving into the digital age
17:45 - From NARM's perspective, Where is the industry headed?
23:12 - What's the best way to get involved with NARM and their initiatives?
26:50 - The NARM Music Biz 2012 Event
30:50 - Give The Gift of Music Campaign: http://www.givethegiftofmusic.info
33:38 - Jim's favorite holiday albums

Category:

• Entertainment
• News

Starring:

• Ian Rogers
• Jim Donio

Produced by:

• Will Thompson

Tags:

• NARM
• Music
• Topspin
• Music Industry
• Music Business
• Audio
• Interview

[Someheroe]

I search, "music" and President NARM is the first video.

[CHanfordB]

@BBQFanNo1 yea autotune has been overused, it's because now no one learns to sing like the old days. Also fads come and go

[LGVideos2012]

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[BBQFanNo1]

For thousands of years some music had happy or joyous songs. But since 2000 everything sounds like death,hell,devil,evil,doom,dam­n gloomy. No happyness spirit soul fire life in it anymore. What the hell happened to music in the world in this generation? How did the happiness and joy get lost in world music so much?

[BBQFanNo1]

Every instrument is fine in music to change but the vocals in music should not be messed around with and ruined by overuse of autotune. Also another big problem in music is everything sounds dark,doom,gloomy,and depressing in music since 2000. You do not hear any happy upbeat inspiring joyous songs in new music anymore like you used to hear for the previous 100 years from the 1890's to the 1990's.

[BBQFanNo1]

The one area in music that should never have been changed is the vocals by autotune. Now I'm not saying autotune is completely bad but autotune has been overused in the mainstream world global music industry shortly after it came out widely available in the late 1990's . It is like too much dependance on the overuse of lip synching I complained about on certain programs back in the 1970's.

[BBQFanNo1]

Neil Young does have a valid and very important point. The biggest problem I have with Music today is not so much the change of instruments. I have always been an advocate of change in music for over 40 years since I began both bass guitar playing and also music recording.

[BBQFanNo1]

Are there any really happy songs in global music industry anymore since 2000? When there is since 2000 it is very rare.

[hansriah]

gud