Russ Regan & Seven Aurelius Discuss the Future of the Music Business

This is a discussion I filmed between two Music Business Giants, Russ Regan and Seven Aurelius. For more about these two legends, check out their Wiki pages.

Russ Regan - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russ_Regan
Seven Aurelius - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_7_(musician)

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Russ Regan
• Seven Aurelius
• Music Business
• Neil Diamond
• Barry White
• Elton John
• Ashanti
• Ja Rule
• Channel 7
• Donnie Klang
• 7 Aurelius

[keacebeatz]

I totally disagree. Now days you don't need a major label to sell records.The internet even out the playing filed.I also don't think 360 deals are good deals. The label should only get money from record sells and that's it. Why do they want to take all the artist hard earn money for? The Record labels are desperate because they know they're doom. With the Internet and independent artist doing very well with out promotion from the labels. It pretty much eliminates the need to be sign to a major.

[kingofnyct]

one thing that is never going to change is the fact that if you produce a good product, people will come hell or high water to pay for it.

[kingofnyct]

marketing 101: find out what people want and give it to them. people want truly great music. so youre going to have businesses going into concert management, and still continuing to deliver poor quality products. labels will just end up bankrupting themselves again or be put out of by a specialist who does it better or more novel than them. now you're back to square one. what is the answer? fewer artists, better music.

[kingofnyct]

with all due respect, it would be a lot better, and a lot easier, if the record companies went back to developing their artists like in the old days. the record labels are utterly desperate for good songs, yet good songwriters and engineers are able to be counted on one hand. labels would do better to invest in this first with laserlike precision, and foster a fantastic product as opposed to trying to diversify into other businesses (eg.concert management).