Project Proposal: Research

 To find out more about this topic researching music industry issues and statistics about how album sales have gone down and why this problem exists. Also researching mobile media and how it is expanding. Marketing behind mobile media versus album marketing would also be a good way to find more information to help find solutions to the problem. Research for this could be found on music industry sites, online articles and even interviews. The Apple website and ITunes could even have information as well.

Project Proposal:Context of Proposal

Album sells have dropped 10% from 1999 to 2008. In the 1990’s people were more prone to buy albums to listen to new music of the artist they like but now in the 21^st century with technology advancing this makes it hard for artist to sell actual albums to their fans. New products with mobile devices within companies are advancing their products to allow their customers to download single tracks or whole albums directly to their phone. From 2007 to the end of the year the mobile music market is expected to jump from $1.7 billion to $3 billion. As CD sales plummet, the music industry is expected to see a $5 billion decline in total music sales in the next three years, from $31.8 billion to $26.2 billion. Because of this, record labels will look to the mobile space for additional revenue instead of album sales like in the past.             

Proposal Project Problem: Mobile Music

In the music industry today albums or CD’s are dropping in sales due to file sharing and downloading programs but the new issue is mobile devices. Mobile devices have become more advanced within the technology to be able to buy individual songs or albums through the phone to directly put it on the device. Mobile devices such as IPhones or Blackberry’s are becoming more popular to where you can get right on ITunes and download a song or album. Mobile media is becoming a huge problem for artists if they are not making any percentage on the music being downloaded by the buyer.

Yahoo Music News

I was looking at Yahoo Music News today and I thought I would write about the top music news as of today. The top story is Celine Dion who has been hospitalized for precautions for her twins. Also in the news is Sugarland a country band is bringing a new album out called "The Incredible Machine" and Lady Antebellum gets top nominations for awards. Taylor Swift is also coming out with her third album as well. If your interested in more detailed news on any of these stories go to: http://news.yahoo.com/entertainment/music

Garth Brooks: The Legend of Country Music

In 2007, Garth Brooks sold out a nine day concert series in Kansas City. Garth Brooks is a country music legend with 13 platinum albums and sold out concerts over a decade of his music. Three years ago Garth Brooks decided to do a reunion tour and play a concert. He chose Kansas City, Missouri to do the concert because it was a central location and the new Sprint Center had just opened shortly. After the concert sold out in a matter of minutes he decided to add another show which ended up being nine after the day was done. People from all over the country came to see him perform and said that each show was phenomenal.

IPod's

In October of 2001, Apple released the first official IPod. This became a crazy, grossing product that has made Apple a billion dollar company. The first generation IPod was 5GB hard drive with 1,000 songs.

The second generation would come in the summer of 2002, with both a 10GB and 20GB model. In 2003, we experienced the first real redesign of the device with the third generation of the classic iPod. It came in a variety of sizes--10, 15, 20, 30 and 40 GB. Now Apple has brought out the IPod touch with video and the newest IPod Nano with a small touch screen. IPod's are making music easier and more conventient for people to listen to the music they love.

 

1st Generation     2nd Generation

 

IPod Touch     Newest IPod Nano

SAC Concert: Ying Yang Twins & Sean Kingston

This past Friday, Student Activities Council brought the Ying Yang Twins and Sean Kingston for the Northwest fall 2010 concert. The concert sold out in 5 hours which made record time for any Northwest concert. The concert was amazing and the Ying Yang Twins put on an amazing show! The concert was in the PAC so any seat was an amazing seat! I went with my roommates and some other friends and we felt like this was one of the best concerts by far at Northwest.

  

Goo Goo Dolls

The Goo Goo Dolls are an older band that came out in 1986. The Goo Goo Dolls are a rock almost punk genre and the lead singer has a very soulful voice. They write their own music and play their own instrutments and their an amazing band. Here is one of my favorite songs by them its called "Black Balloon".

"Comin' down the world turned over
And angels fall without you there
And I'll go on to bring you home
All because I'm
All because I'm
And I'll become
What you became to me"

Country Music Artist Jason Aldean

I have decided to start and focus on a different artist every blog. They will all vary from country to pop to rock. This blog I will be focusing on Jason Aldean. He is a pretty new artist and has only been around for a few years. He has three albums out. His first album titled "Jason Aldean came out in 2005 and has popular songs like "Amarillo Sky" and "Hicktown". His second album titled, "Rentless" came out in 2007 and had songs like, "Johnny Cash" and " Laughed Until We Cried". His third and most recent album is titled, "Wide Open" and it had chart topping hits like, "She's Country, "Big Green Tractor", and " The Truth". He has receieved awards such as: 2006 Top New Male Vocalist for the Academy of Country Music Awards and lots of nominations in other award programs. I have personally seen Jason Aldean perform twice in concert and he was amazing both times. He is a great country artist and someone who you should check out!

Glee, "The Musical Television Show"

A new show that came out in the fall of 2009 called "Glee" has been a television phenomon which has already won four Emmy's. This show  is about a high school Spanish teacher that relives his old high school dream of being in the Glee Club and makes a new Glee Club in his current high school. This Glee Club brings all different types of students in it and they all become a close family after the first season. This show also brings old and new songs into a choir sound that anyone can relate to and fall in love with. With many sticky situations and funny lines this show brings music into a great television show.

Save the Music

Music is hard topic for me to find something that I can argue about because I love music so much but one thing that I can think of is how music programs are being cut out of schools. I found this VH1 Save the Music commercial on youtube explaining how they help fund this programs. Throughout school I was very involved in our music programs and I feel that if those would have ever been taken away from me I wouldn't have been the person I am today. When I think back to memories of high school being in choir was a very huge chunk of it. I did choir all four years of high school and I believe it helped me stay out of trouble and really focus on school. Choir was something I actually looked forward to and I went to district and state competitions. Music programs have been known to help children educationally and better children who come from a bad home environment. Taking away these programs could really hurt a school and the betterment of the children.