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Verizon and Timbaland make an exclusive music deal
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article published on 10 February, 2008
The star hip-hop producer Timbaland has announced that he has made a deal with Verizon Wireless to produce the first ever "mobile album" which will be exclusively available on V Cast.
For the deal, Timbaland will produce one song per month for every month during 2008, each time working with a different artist and touring the country on the Verizon Mobile Recording Studio Bus.
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10. February 2008 @ 20:39 |
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"Just producing a mobile album has never been done. I'm the first to ever do it."
-Ngauge was the first ever mass-market gaming phone, and look how that turned out.
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jetyi83
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10. February 2008 @ 22:36 |
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stupid artist, stupid idea. i hope it flops
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mikecUSA
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10. February 2008 @ 22:41 |
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Definitely an idiot move. All of his stuff can normally be found at Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Circuit City, not to mention Online at Napster and I-Tunes.
He just automatically shut out a large percentage of AT&T, Sprint, and any other mobile phone users.
He may be talented, but in the brains department, he's one helluva a bonehead. Instead of Timbaland, he should be called lallaland or timberland, as in 'TIMBER!" that's the sound of your career cah-rashing!!!
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10. February 2008 @ 23:29 |
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dumb idea. But great idea if you want to cut people out
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10. February 2008 @ 23:49 |
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Originally posted by limelight:
"Just producing a mobile album has never been done. I'm the first to ever do it."
-Ngauge was the first ever mass-market gaming phone, and look how that turned out.
What? An album isn't a game.
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11. February 2008 @ 00:56 |
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Originally posted by jetyi83:
stupid artist, stupid idea. i hope it flops
to be honest that sounds like jealousy...he gets paid somewhere between $250,000-500,000 for each track, who wouldnt do this?
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11. February 2008 @ 01:22 |
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"every place don't get a CD (but) everybody has a mobile phone."
everybody is on verizon
also, they all have vcast phones
and they pay extra for the vcast package
plus they still have lots of money left over
they need money to burn to pay $24 dollars for an album they'll probably never get to play on any of their stereo equipment
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11. February 2008 @ 11:29 |
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1.99 a song? thats insane! but if the kids want it, they'll get it.
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mikecUSA
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11. February 2008 @ 11:56 |
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"$250,000-500,000 for each track, who wouldnt do this? "
answer: everyone else.
The decline in the music industry is equal parts due to a qulaity drop and alternative acquisition.
An artist that is focused on quality will be concerned about getting his music into as many hands as possible because most true artists have that at the core of their mission in life, doing something of quality that will be appreciated on it's qualitative merits by humanity at large.
There are three core reasons for most artists to do what they do
A) pride in excellent achievement
B) Fame
C) wealth
D) glory
Most artists will not sign an exclusive distribution agreement with Verizon or anyone else because that will automatically limit distribution in an unnatural way and encourage further piracy as the exclusive distributor is bypassed through some sort of "piracy" exploitative method of alternative distribution.
Timbaland, what were you thinking?
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mikecUSA
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11. February 2008 @ 12:00 |
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okay there are many core reasons, and I found FOUR not just three, give me more time and I will find more....I will not add them to this thread, that wouold be a Timbaland move and I'll keep all of those to myself. urp!
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11. February 2008 @ 12:46 |
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Originally posted by mikecUSA:
"$250,000-500,000 for each track, who wouldnt do this? "
answer: everyone else.
The decline in the music industry is equal parts due to a qulaity drop and alternative acquisition.
An artist that is focused on quality will be concerned about getting his music into as many hands as possible because most true artists have that at the core of their mission in life, doing something of quality that will be appreciated on it's qualitative merits by humanity at large.
There are three core reasons for most artists to do what they do
A) pride in excellent achievement
B) Fame
C) wealth
D) glory
Most artists will not sign an exclusive distribution agreement with Verizon or anyone else because that will automatically limit distribution in an unnatural way and encourage further piracy as the exclusive distributor is bypassed through some sort of "piracy" exploitative method of alternative distribution.
Timbaland, what were you thinking?
I dont necessarily see that logic...Verizon wireless has 62 million subscribers, I would think this is actually opening Timbaland up to new people, not limiting.
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jetyi83
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11. February 2008 @ 12:49 |
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63 million people who already could have purchased a regularly released album, and then the other 240 million that can not.
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mikecUSA
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11. February 2008 @ 13:39 |
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The only people buying a new timbaland album would be a smaller subset of the total verizon customer base. Of that subgroup would be a subset of people who would buy music to only use on their phone. Of the people willing to spend 2 dollars on one song to be played on ONLY their phone, their would be a subset of people who like RAP/R&B music, and of that group, a smaller group who like timbaland enough to pay 2 dollars a song--times--12 months or $24.00 for an album that only cost $9.99 if it was bought in CD form brand new, $5.99 used or $12.00 from i-tunes (that can be BURNED to CD for permanent archive) and then re-ripped to any format (including verizon cell phone ringtones etc)
so anyone please tell me how the Verizon deal is a deal for a SMART customer--or a smart recording artist? Unless of course his pay is not tied to sales at all, but is huge payout to timbaland with an additioanl bonus of a percentage of sales.
Either way, I doubr high quality excellence will be a rquirement of contract fulfillment since "artistic excellence" standards are so subjective.
In the past the only way to commercially measure success was to rate the popularity of an effort by how many people like the finished product--most commonly rated by sales statistics.
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24. February 2008 @ 18:37 |
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Timbalands probably gonna steal some indian music again anyways
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7. April 2008 @ 05:43 |
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Although this is a inovative idea. I do not think this will be really a good idea in the long run.
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