Rumblings/Ramblings
Lots underway, but these items are of note, if you aint seen em already...
The delightful Mr Wallace Chapman gets dumped/departs BFM Breakfast, replaced by former Brekky host (aka Mr Punctuality) Mikey Havoc. Blogosphere reacts with abject horror - see Mr Dubber and Mr Christie (two posts). Looks like BFM are changing hosts to please advertisers, not listeners. Any comments? Email them to BFM here. (under Contacts)
Simon Grigg notes that in a recent conversation with a fellow NZ music industry person he heard that "sales of NZ music are in, and I quote, “complete freefall” and unlikely to improve in the near future. That, coupled with other informed comments on National Radio recently mentioning drops of some twenty percent or so this year, raises one big question. At least from where I’m sitting, several thousand miles from the action. Namely, what in gods name happened?
Of course I’m absolutely aware of the on-going global downturn in sales of compact discs and the inevitable flattening out of digital sales. Especially from acts represented by the major industry organisations such as the RIAA, or their equivalents.But the percentage drop in sales, from labels represented by RIANZ (and that is a major qualifier) of NZ music, far exceeds the global trend and the word why flashes in neon rather brutally..." Full post here.
Simon also points to the fantastic new Toy Love website, set up by TL's Jane Walker. have a lookee. Nice one.
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