Eric Garland
Eric Garland
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There's always going to be a need for gatekeepers who perform the service that record labels do now. Otherwise, it's just noise, pure cacophony. Most people who are not A&R (Artist & Repertoire) executives don't want to sort through tens of thousands of contenders to find 50 things that sound great.
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And 10 billion songs per year is a very conservative estimate.
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Even bands with deep catalogs have hits, and then they have superstar hits. There may be 20 songs from Queen that people know, but really we're talking about two or three that are more popular by orders of magnitude. They're cultural staples. If I had the option to buy 9 songs instead of 12 songs on 'Meet the Beatles,' I might have done that.
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I think that television and Hollywood film will have a much easier time of working with this phenomenon as opposed to battling it.
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I think this just opens more doors and asks more questions than it answers, ... We're going to see a whole of litigation because there's still no clear standard.
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It's just like if Sony went out of business. Your Sony television would still function.
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Three to five years from now, we'll be looking at a system where you buy a digital file, and it plays on any digital device.
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The Fab Four have always been among the very most popular bands online even though they're technically -- or legitimately -- unavailable online. My easy prediction is that the Beatles sell a lot of songs online, even though seemingly everybody who has access to them has their songs already.