“This summer’s lobbying effort by a new recording industry-sponsored group, MusicFirst, has breathed new life into the drive to make radio pay artists — and not just writers and publishers — for playing their songs, but the issue is as old as Top 40. What’s different now is that the music industry, in deep trouble, is casting around for ways to make up for the steep decline in revenue that hit the recording business after digital downloading changed the business’s basic structure.”
Tag: 09.02.07
That Song Thats Stuck In Your Head
“Scientists call songs that get stuck in your head ‘earworms’ after the German Ohrwurm. We don’t know a lot about how or why they happen — it’s hard to get funding to study this type of thing — but we know a little. Like, it tends not to be a whole song that gets stuck in your head, just 15-20 seconds of one, and it tends to be a simple song that even non-singers can hum without effort.”