Singularity

Good article in today's Washington Post about the re-emergence of the singles market in music. I've said for a long time -- and this a big part of the setup for the as-yet hypothetical book -- that the death of the single in the CD age was one of the key factors in the rise of Napster and P2P in the first place.

Of course, that's not going to change if articles written about the phenomenon talk about 770,000 or 304,000 copies sold -- in this case of recent albums by Lifehouse and D4L -- as being in any way unsuccessful. Give credit to Todd Moscowitz of Asylum Records, who won't play that game in the article. At least not on the record, no pun intended.

That sort of springboards this from just the value proposition of a full album versus a digital download into the unsustainable blockbuster mentality that the majors have gotten themselves so locked into. Those are just two of the reasons the industry is in such a dire situation these days.