Wow, two years and no responses, effective forum, I'm definitely going to post here more often!

I was just wondering how to change my band name, thats all?

Everyone is like fuck you and then they walk off without the slightest explination as to why they say FUCK YOU.  Thats how it feels.

Im not going to explain it - figure it out.

Oh, and I have a silly question probably only silly newbies ask. How do I give Karma's to silly people who need silly Karma's? You know, people like Ballkick and SoCoDanO22 and music_at_wrk and spike and TwisterX and Reejmon and JewelBlack and Ballkick again?  Or, am I too unsmart to obtain such a wonderful and godly instrument of power?

CD sales plummet
Consumers across all demographics are buying fewer
CDs than ever. Sales are down 13% from just two years ago and continue to plummet, with no end in sight.

The industry has pinned the blame for much of the current downturn on Internet file-sharing, illegal downloading and CD-burning. And, despite the promise of "legal" sites like Steve Jobs' much-ballyhooed iTunes Music store, music companies are scrambling to find a solution that will expose and monetize their investments.

Their sense of urgency is easy to understand. Consider, for instance, the recent study of 12- to 44-year-old consumers by Edison Media Research, that found that those who have downloaded more than 100 music files report that their purchases of CDs have dropped 61% from the year before. In addition, 71% of those heavy downloaders have "burned someone else's copy of a CD instead of buying one," and 48% say they no longer buy CDs "because they download music for free over the Internet."

Grasping In this climate, artists, managers, labels and publishing executives are all grasping for alternative revenue streams, or at least another partner to help share the ever-increasing promotional budget to launch new artists and continue to sustain career acts.

The result is an explosion of marketing campaigns and plans that intertwine musicians and product promotions in new and novel ways.

"At most record companies, the astute marketing people have been tying together artists and products for many years," says longtime industry executive Phil Quartararo, EMI Recorded Music North America executive vice president who oversees the company's new in-house marketing entity, EMI Music Marketing. However, the consumer today is more inundated
than ever before by those competing for multiple advertising impressions. "The weight has been put on us to become more focused and selective in coming up with non-traditional sales relationships."

Steely Dan & GM Credit Adds legendary music manager Irving Azoff, who has about 20 corporate deals for the summer, including Eagles and Infinity, Steely Dan and GM Credit and Christina Aguilera with Skechers, Target and Mattel: "Times are not only tough, they're getting harder. We are selling less catalog and fewer new records. With the economy as bad as it is, costs haven't gone down. We need to make up for some of these losses. These types of deals are natural."

This is nothing new, of course. Entertainment Marketing Communications Inc. founder Jay Coleman is considered the father of music marketing, launching early pairings such as Earth, Wind & Fire for Motorola and the groundbreaking sponsorship of Coty U.S.' Jovan for the Rolling Stones' 1981 tour. The struggling musk oil company paid $500,000 and, according to Mr. Coleman, "it put them on the map in a major way."

Stones and The Who The Stones went on to cement sponsorships with Anheuser-Busch's Budweiser, Sprint, Tommy Hilfiger and T-Mobile for their most recent Euro jaunt. The Who have used Miller Genuine Draft as tour sponsors, Paul McCartney's show was promoted by Visa International and
Phil Collins was presented by Sears, Roebuck & Co.

Management powerhouse The Firm, whose music clients include Mary J. Blige, Dixie Chicks, Jennifer Lopez, Michelle Branch, Enrique Iglesias and Korn, was one of the first to recognize the importance of these deals and has aggressively pursued opportunities.  For example, The Firm and Maverick Records have teamed young singer/songwriter Michelle Branch with Unilever's Thermasilk, which sponsored her recent 12-city tour with a radio and online campaign. To demonstrate its commitment, the label is allowing Thermasilk to
use the music for free, a tactic becoming much more prominent.

High-profile campaigns
Examples of recent high-profile ad blitzes include Celine Dion and Chrysler Group, which helped launch the diva's new album and  
Sting's 2000 Jaguar comercial.  
 
Led Zeppelin's Cadillac commercial.  
 Celine Dion's Chrysler commercial.  
 Meat Loaf's GM commercial.  
 Shakira's Pepsi commercial.  
 Rapper Common's Coke commercial.

PS. Thanks Random source.

Greetings Germany Entchen25 man.
Let the harps of Yoggie enlighten our journey.

Spike - I offer you this Multanomuh hand shake grip.  Never again shall I underestimate the power of E-Mail.  It may sound strange .. but you have made an impact.



and whoops ... lookie what accidently happened

http://www.wazee.org/wmd/viewartist.php?ID=616

Yeah well, today is Wednesday and everything is all better now....  and I've decided to come back.  It's kinda like going to watch a movie at a theatre your not too sure about .. and of course it starts off all poopy, because of the premeditated dissapiontment you had already installed instead, so you exit the theatre for a few minutes to have a quick smoke and reflect on your judgement .. "Did I just waste the rest of my money on this crappy flick?" ... hmm ... "Well ... maybe, maybe not, maybe I should at least watch the movie all the way through to see if it has a cool ending." so yeah .. thats kinda what it was like for me I guess, I was just being to critical & impatient, so - can I have my seat back now please .... ?  I brought some popcorn ..  and um - some drinks.

Sorry Fellas - but I've decided to terminate my existance here - The forum's were pretty cool like a large bowl of pudding with a side dish of jello - but the new artist's area, where I had installed my music like so many others musicians inspired to take an interest in this site, crawls slower then a leg-less leg eating carpet pusher that lays dead in a field of vacantcy and passing ghosts.  Im not entirely sure what the purpose of the new artist's page is, theres some great  music in there, but nothing EVER seems to happen in there. Anyway, Im gone .. like the listener ratio.

You guys did a very good job here - let it be with great honor that I hereby now award the following persons with "The Aimlessly Type to Fill up Space and Create a Pointless Adjudication of Run-on Sentences & Pages For No Reason but to Simply Prove a Point that Run-on Sentences & Pages can be Made very Easily by Many People if they Try Award". These highly decorative metals of honor shall forever be in your possession. And Thank you.

SoCoDanO22
music_at_wrk
TwisterX
Reejmon
JewelBlack
Ballkick

Good Job Guys! - Let this forum unit be surely proud.

Hi- Im new - My name is Daniel, I'm a 25 year old undereducated rudimental patron of the labor society. Currently, for an honest living - me and my brother change the color of houses. When theres nothing left to paint or it's raining outside, I sit with my guitar. Through the years, I've developed a knack for picking up any instrument that I see, and then breaking it. It was nice reading the other things other new persons typed.

So what happens now?

Whats a Green day?