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Home Histories: How To Discover Who Used to Live in Your Home
If you're lucky enough to live in a historic or familial home, then you know how interesting it is to learn about the people who used to sleep in your bedroom and cook in your kitchen and how different, yet amazingly similar, their lives were to your own. But what about the rest of us? Curious to know how to even begin finding out who used to live in your home? Read on for the resources to start your search.
*A quick note before you get started: depending on your state and the age of your home, this could be a pretty easy or very difficult process. Regardless, in almost all cases, it will take more than a quick internet search. Be prepared, at the very least, to go down to your local hall of records and do some of the dirty work yourself.
First things first, talk to your neighbors! It's the simplest (and friendliest) way to get some great information.
If you're starting from scratch, you'll need to figure out when your house or apartment building was constructed. The style, materials and original details of your home (if you're lucky enough to have those) will give you a rough idea of its period. For simple, free information, real estate sites like Zillow or Trulia are great places to start. Searching by address, especially if the house is for sale or recently sold, will most likely tell you at least the age of the property and usually some other basic information. For a bit more depth (and if you're willing to shell out a few bucks), Housefax will prepare a report on your property including age, fire history, building permits and even if there was ever meth lab activity reported!
Now it's time to head down to your county courthouse. Look for:
- The lot number of your property (perhaps different from your address as numbering systems or even road names change over time).
- The original building permit of your home.
- The abstract — a collection of the legal records associated with your property such as deeds, mortgages, wills and tax sales.
These documents together should give you pretty good picture of not only when and how your home was built, but also the names of all the previous legal owners. Now you'll be able to search for those people directly.
If your house was around in 1940 or before, you're in luck because after a 72-year waiting period (the amount of time they're kept confidential), the 1940 census was made public in 2012 with information such as occupation, family size and even education level and income. Search the census by location right here.
A few other interesting tidbits:
- If you're in New York City, check out this fascinating map by bdon.org which uses color to chart buildings by age.
- Think you might have a ghost or just morbidly curious? The site Died in House will (for a small fee) give you a report of any deaths that occurred in your house as well as any known past owners or residents.
- Don't feel like doing the digging yourself? This Toronto-based service, HouseStories, will do the research for you and prepare a personalized (and even illustrated) house history for you.
Good luck and happy hunting!
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Don't forget about your local public library as a resource, too! They often have intensive historical collections and librarians who are prepared to help you dig through them. They'll usually have access to census records, local historical directories, historical newspapers, etc. If you just want the information most libraries will do research for a small fee.
State historical libraries are also a great resource.
So . . . any ideas on whether or not we should leave something inside the walls of the next room we redo? We had the house built 26 years ago so we are the first owners. Should we make some kind of mark for posterity?
Most courthouse records are online. There's no need to leave your home. Google your county and then search their county clerk records, deeds, etc.
Also familysearch.org will give you access to censuses, etc for free.
Shameless plug: hire an architectural historian!!! We know all the right places to look and can turn up more info than a layman would. If you're in the SF Bay Area, might I recommend www.leftcoastarchitecturalhistory.com ;-)
Someone on our neighborhood facebook page posted a brochure from 10 years ago outlining the history and owners of about a quarter of the houses. I found out that the house I purchased was built by a husband and wife that had the same first name as me and last name of the doctor who delivered me. The husband also happened to be a doctor and was the doctor heading the emergency efforts when the largest and most destructive tornado of our city's history hit, which also happened on my birthday, 28 years before I was born. I know it's a bunch of random coincidences but it was pretty cool for me to be able to make all of those connections.
There's quite a bit you can get done online. Unless you're in a super small town, most register of deeds offices have put their files online. I became obsessed with a house I saw for sale online and ended up tracing it (and the plot of land it sat on) all the way back to the 1920s when that part of town was still farm land.
Once you have the name of the original owner, head to your local library and use Ancestry.com. Most libraries provide the service for free. It's easy to look up census records that way and you can often see what the person's profession was in addition to their families.
And as far as I know, the census website is shut down. One of co-workers remarked on it because she uses it on a daily basis for research purposes.
Great timing for this post! My husband and I just bought a home built in 1900 and I'm so anxious to start digging into it's history. I constantly find myself daydreaming about who loved it before we did. So far I've tried the 1940 census site, but couldn't make out the handwriting... next stops will be the library and local historical society. Hopefully we'll get some leads there...
I wish we'd just get lucky and have a relative of previous owners stop by! My grandma did that with the home she grew up in, that her great-grandfather built, and was able to give the current owners all kinds of awesome information about the house and it's history. They were over the moon and still keep in contact w/ what they're doing to the house!
That bdon map is unfortunately, wildly inaccurate for buildings older than 1900. Because it seems to be pulling Building Department dates, it believes that many houses are from 1899 or 1900, but that's because those are default dates assigned to much older buildings when the real date is not in the system. So much of the West Village, for example, reads as only 100 years old when many of the houses date from the 1830s and 1840s. The oldest extant house in the area, a 1790 townhouse at 77 Bedford, is dated as 1901!
So glad you posted this today! We just bought a house from the 1920s and I'm dying to know more about it. I know these walls could tell me so many stories!
Thanks so much for mentioning us in your article, Jennifer!
I want to mention that in addition to the details you mentioned above, Housefax reports also provide loan history information, which is an easy way to find out the name of previous owners, plus get other helpful history details about your home. We want to offer you & your readers a discount on our reports so they can check it out for themselves. Just use the code AptTherapy to get $10 off a report. Thanks again!
Here is one thing I discovered: up through the early 70s Seattle was a small enough town that the local paper published the street address anytime someone was mentioned -- whether they were a witness to a crime who spoke to the reporter or a socialite hosting a luncheon. "Mr. Daniel Smith of 340 Melrose Avenue said..." And of course the address was listed anytime the house was advertised for sale, or had a yard sale, etc. So plugging our address into the searchable historic archive of the newspaper, available here through the library's website, gave fascinating results. Between the newspaper, the census records, and some historic telephone books I found out LOTS about our house's history and inhabitants. Property records were less useful because they only went back to about 1965, at least online.
I'm not sure how many municipalities will have the online newspaper archive, but that was the best part of research. Even the dead ends were fun because looking at those old articles was so great.
If you try this, be sure to enter your address multiple ways on subsequent searches: 22 Third Ave, 22 3rd Ave, maybe even Twenty Two Third Ave.
In some instances Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps are another great resource. They were originally created for determining fire insurance liability and are coded either by color or symbols to provide a number of details about a property. A few examples include what a building or house was made of, the number of floors, the location and size of any outbuildings, and what the building was at that time (such as a residence, a restaurant, store, etc.). Many local libraries have either access to these through subscriptions to online databases, microfilm, or paper copies. If your library doesn't have access, they should be able to get them through inter library loans at little to no cost to you. One of my favorite things about these maps is seeing how neighborhoods changed through time, and what types of buildings or houses once stood where my 1970s era apartment is now.
I'm not sure that naming someone's address in newspaper mentions is as much indicative of a small town as it is of a common newspaper practice from back in the day. It's weird to think about in this day and age though, isn't it?
Thanks for this post! I looked up my 1910 house on the Census link and was fascinated by the info! Our house was worth $4,000 then and owned by a city employee who made an annual salary of $4,300. The house currently has about 1,300 square feet, although I think it was a bit less at the time because I'm not sure it had an actual bathroom then, and yet there were six(!) people living there!
Indoor bathrooms were uncommon at that time. Chamber pots and outdoor privies!
The location of our Apartment Building (built in 2009), has a colourful history.
Some of the (land) history:
The Evergreen. 144 Vivian St, site of the Gay Community Centre, 1986-1989.
Some time after the Evergreen closed down there was something else there, and in 2007 or so, a fire tore through the building, burning it to the ground.
In 2008 the apartment complex was being built. It opened in 2009.
Here's an article on the street name/ history:
When I was little one of my favorite books was "The Little House" and this sweet house reminds me of that.


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Housecalls—Lowdown on Canola Oil, Bee Venom Therapy, Getting Rid of Warts
Canola Conundrum
Q I've been hearing that certain types of canola oil aren't healthy—can you clarify?
A There's a lot of misinformation out there about this oil. Canola oil, made from the seeds of the rapeseed plant, is low in saturated fat and contains alpha-linolenic acid (ALA), one of the health-promoting omega-3 fatty acids. But it's not uncommon for the makers of supermarket brands to use petroleum-based chemicals to extract the oil from the seeds. Such oils are also heated during the refining process, which reduces their level of omega-3s.
The other worry about canola is basically groundless. Some versions of the rapeseed plant do contain erucic acid, which can be toxic, but this substance has been almost entirely bred out of the plants used to make canola oil today.
Your best bet is to choose an organic version that's labeled "cold pressed" and that contains more than 20 percent ALA.
Cold pressing uses a mechanical press to squeeze the oil, generating less heat and leaving more of the omega-3s intact. By choosing organic, you avoid genetically modified organisms, since organic oils can't come from such seeds.
One caveat: Canola oil produced this way has a lower "smoke point," so you shouldn't use it for high-temperature cooking like stir-frying; not only will it taste bitter, it can break down and cause damaging free radicals to form. (Grapeseed oil is a better choice.)
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You should be prepared, though, for the same minor side effects that come from being stung by a bee, namely swelling, itchiness, and redness. (Anyone allergic to bee or wasp stings, of course, should steer clear.) Finding a practitioner who uses bee venom therapy may take some legwork, as it's not widely available. For more information, contact the American Apitherapy Society at www.apitherapy.org .
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Homesick or Culture Shock?
Mornings in Hanoi were fabulous. I would wake up, open my blinds, and look down. I would see the vegetable ladies set up shop, look at which stores had started to open, and leave for the day. My apartment was in the perfect location, allowing me to be in the midst of everything or take the elevator 7 stories up and sit on the roof to enjoy the quiet and relaxation. Even on the days where I had nothing to do, I still had so much to do. A morning phở or bánh cuốn, a trà chanh and sometimes even a cà phê sữa đá were all I needed to happily start my stroll. And although the weather in the summer was sweltering hot and less ideal… it was more ideal than this.
It took me a few months to start to truly miss Vietnam this time. I had so much to look forward to: my first Christmas, time with Bran, seeing friends, and a trip to Mexico on the horizon. Although I was sad to leave, for once I was actually a little excited to come home. Almost three months later, it's no longer the case. Winter, unemployment, the continuation of long distance (albeit a 1.5 hour drive is much more doable than a 24-hour plane ride with a 12-hour time difference), and the waiting game of grad school… I can't tell if I'm fed up with the current situation of my life, miss the simplicity of living in Hanoi, or have once again fallen homesick for my second home.
This morning I woke up, hit snooze, walked downstairs to see if there was more to shovel after yet another snow storm, and casually went back into my bed for a few hours. I put yoga pants on and my hair in a bun, applied to yet another job and then started writing. Why go outside? There's a wind chill of -27 and I either can't afford or find those once simple treasures. In this country of $9 phở and missing bánh cuốn, bánh đa or trà chanh, I am just hoping for the next adventure.
"It's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."–Abraham Lincoln
"Do you have a husband?" He asks. He's 'getting a knot' in my bum out while he asks.
I'll miss this country and all of its quirks.
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover."–Mark Twain
The Fortune Teller
Over the last two years, I have had brief run-ins with fortune tellers. The first time was my first week in Vietnam. I was at the Temple of Literature with a friend who, while walking around, told me it was best to go to the fortune teller over tết (the lunar new year). While she didn't truly believe in what the fortune teller said, it was a fun activity to do.
My second experience was just after tết. I was at a temple with my coworkers to give offerings and we ran into a fortune teller. Since I was not nearly as proficient in Vietnamese, one of my colleagues translated for me. "You're from Thailand," he said, "You travel a lot. You will marry a nice Vietnamese man and have beautiful Vietnamese babies." As you can imagine, I left the experience a skeptic.
Coming back this time, I remained a skeptic. For months on end, a close friend told me how I need to go and everything she's learned from the fortune teller. After about 6 months of her telling me what a great experience it is, I finally agreed to go.
The fortune teller we went to is very famous in Hanoi. He used to consult the President and traveled around the world acquiring foreign girlfriends as a result. And while I'm still convinced he can't speak English, I am sure he is fluent in French, Russian and Mandarin or Cantonese.
The experience was surreal. He started by getting my date, place and time of birth. Once he had the coordinates and could convert it into the lunar calendar he told me my personality and described some of my family, according to the bearings. Without saying a word myself, he told me that I have a personality 'like a man' - taking responsibility, carrying the shoulders and that my happiness reflects other peoples' happiness. He continued to go on to talk about how I was a planner, strategic, love travel, need to keep busy, and how my greatest drawbacks are how aggressive I am (in addition to my love for arguments).
He proceeded to tell me about my love life. My boyfriends, similar to friends, will be "easy come, easy go." I will fall in love young and get married old. And while his words make it seem like Branden is shit out of luck, there was no mention of a Vietnamese husband, just an older and successful one.
The last 30 minutes (of the two-hour session) were dedicated to giving me a breakdown of the next twelve months. It was really interesting to hear, him clearly identifying events or actions that will occur in each month and how to avoid particular repercussions. Eerily enough, each month coordinated with things that I can already foresee - January needing financial support, May being faced with professional difficulties but overcoming them, September moving away.
I walked out stunned. While I don't think I will follow the experience or words as closely as my friend, his words for June - "be careful with birth control" will definitely come home with me.
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Funeral Services for Mildred M. Moline will be conducted from the First United Methodist Church in Holdrege, Nebraska on Wednesday, June 4, 2014 at 10:30 a.m. with Reverend Jeff Adams officiating. Interment will be in the Prairie Home Cemetery at Holdrege.
Mildred Maxine Moline, 92 years of age, of Holdrege, passed away on Sunday, June 1, 2014 at the Phelps Memorial Health Center in Holdrege. She was born on December 31, 1921 at Edison, Nebraska, the third of four children of William and Pearl (Klienschrodt) Melroy. At a young age, Mildred and her family relocated to Holdrege, where she received her education from Holdrege Public Schools and graduated from Holdrege High School with the class of 1938. On September 11, 1944, she was united in marriage to Wallace Leander Moline at the Methodist parsonage in Holdrege and to this union three children were born: Robert, Richard and Linda. The family made their home on the family farm 13 miles north of Holdrege. Mildred enjoyed life on the farm, taking coffee to the fields in the morning and lunch in the afternoon. She also focused her efforts on raising their children. Mildred and Wallace continued to reside on the farm until moving to Holdrege in 1981. Mildred was preceded in death by Wallace on March 31, 1999.
Mildred was a member of First United Methodist Church in Holdrege for over 50 years, where she taught Sunday school and served on several committees including the UMW (United Methodist Women).
Mildred was a talented seamstress making clothes for the children when they were young and later in years enjoyed crocheting. The family enjoyed spending time together fishing and family gatherings. She enjoyed being active through the years, playing cards and socializing with her friends at the Holdrege Senior Center.
Besides her parents and her husband, Wallace; Mildred was preceded in death by her son, Robert on May 20, 2006; two brothers: Willard and Alan Melroy; and one sister, Violet Johnson and her husband, Al.
She leaves to mourn her passing; her son, Richard Moline of Phoenix, Arizona; daughter, Linda Schrock and her husband, Van of Lincoln, Nebraska; daughter-in-law, Judy Moline of Texas; three grandchildren: Jason Schrock of Lincoln, Marta Schrock of Omaha, Nebraska and Coty Moline of Phoenix; sister-in-law, Maxine Melroy of Holdrege; along with a host of nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.
Visitation will be held at the Nelson-Bauer Funeral Home in Holdrege on Tuesday, June 3, 2014 from 4:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
A memorial has been established in Mildred's honor and kindly suggested to the First United Methodist Church in Holdrege.
Expressions of caring and kindness can be sent to the family at www.nelsonbauerfh.com
The Nelson-Bauer Funeral Home in Holdrege is in charge of the arrangements.


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Starbucks SWOT Analysis: A Tasty Coffee Stock
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SWOT analysis – Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats – is a simple but powerful method to look at a company from multiple points of view. Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) is one of the most remarkable growth stories in the consumer sector over the last years, and a SWOT analysis reveals that the company still has a lot of potential in the middle and long term.
- Starbucks owns the most recognizable brand in the specialty coffee business, and the Starbucks experience is an irreplaceable differentiating factor.
- Howard Shultz, founder and chairman of Starbucks is the barista to the world. Shultz has practically invented specialized coffee as a mass product, his leadership and innovative vision are very valuable assets.
- The company has a loyal customer base willing to pay premium prices for Starbucks products.
- Store location is an important competitive factor, and Starbucks has secured its presence in many of the most desirable corners of the planet.
- Starbucks is ahead of most competitors when it comes to financial strength and profitability.
- Starbucks products are more expensive than those offered by the competition, and customers could easily switch to lower priced alternatives in times of economic hardship.
- Aggressive expansion can be risky, as it can lead to cannibalization and a watered down Starbucks experience.
- Health implications of coffee consumption are a matter of debate, and many of the company´s products have high calories and fat content.
- International expansion is still in its first stages, there is plenty of room for growth in emerging markets.
- Revamped food offerings, juice, energy drinks and even potentially some alcoholic drinks are smart ways to leverage the brand and attract different kinds of customers. The acquisitions of Evolution Fresh and La Boulangerie fit quite well into this strategy.
- The company has taken a two sided approach to the home brewing boom popularized by Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (NASDAQ: GMCR). On one hand it produces K-Cup coffee and tea packs for use in Green Mountain´s Keurig, but at the same time Starbucks is competing with its own premium brewing machine, Verisimo.
- Introducing new products and different distribution venues is a strategy which Starbucks is implementing successfully, and it still offers many opportunities in the US and abroad.
- McDonald´s (NYSE: MCD) is successfully expanding its Mc Café stores on a global scale. The fast food giant has an unparalleled geographical presence and lower prices than Starbucks in addition to a globally recognized brand.
- Dunkin' Brands (NASDAQ: DNKN) makes 60% system wide sales from coffee and other beverages, and the company is expanding beyond its core northeastern U.S. market. Dunkin Brands is another relevant competitor with lower prices than Starbucks.
- High end competition is increasing too, with companies like Panera (NASDAQ: PNRA) growing strongly both on a total sales and comparable store sales basis. Panera offers high quality food and coffees for premium prices, and in that sense it goes after a similar customer group.
- Starbucks is exposed to commodity price fluctuations and possible supply problems in coffee and other products.
Bottom Line
Competition is rising, both from lower priced alternatives and premium players. But Starbucks has enough differentiation power to sustain its market share and expand into different business lines and geographies. Overall, this cup of coffee is still quite tasty.
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Charlie Adam was never a Spurs player. He was briefly at Liverpool, and he seriously injured Gareth Bale twice with clumsy tackles. I assume that's the explanation.
Also I demand a link to this fan fiction.
Gareth Bale continues to delight and fascinate the IncGamers podcast team this week; almost as much as the prospect of getting Deadly Premonition on the PC through Steam Greenlight. Was that a convincing segue, there? Probably not. Anyway, getting the adventures of Francis York Morgan on the PC sounds like a terrific idea and we fully support it.
After that, we discuss the prospect of getting HD versions of Homeworld, along with Gearbox's decision to extend Borderlands 2 DLC beyond the 'Season Pass.' And there's even more speculation about old game licenses thanks to Atari's bankruptcy auction bonanza this week, including whether Stardock have really got all the rights to Star Control after all.
Foolishly, we attempt to answer some Facebook questions and discover that this may not be the best podcast for handling in-depth Diablo 3 queries. Plus! Satellite Reign chat and the great Kickstarter currency dilemma.
This week, the podcast team has playedEuropa Universalis IV, Metro: Last Light's Faction DLC and the hamster-filled Mighty Quest for Epic Loot. So those are the games we'll talk about.
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Charlie Adam was never a Spurs player. He was briefly at Liverpool, and he seriously injured Gareth Bale twice with clumsy tackles. I assume that's the explanation.
Also I demand a link to this fan fiction.
Ahhh, yes, that does all ring a bell now. Thanks for the explanation! As a … well, I hesitate to say "reward," but … as a token of thanks, here's Chapter 7 of PASSIONATE LIES: http://red-dynamitexxx.tumblr.com/post/41477380491/chapter-7-passionate-lies-gareth-bale-fan-fiction
oh dear god there are 24 chapters
That site appears to be dead. Did we break it? Did the author person hear our podcast and take it down out of shame? WEEP.
Aw man, I hope not. That wasn't my intention at all
Yeeeeah, it would be sad if they looked to see where their traffic was coming from and took it down based on that I'd feel very guilty, too.
Epic intro!
Ahh! scaring my young vunerable mind at the start of the podcast lol, can only risk one eye with you lot :D. I actually like Team17's Worms Forts, had some really good battles on that despite the terrain not being destrutable for worm god knows why. Yeah I brought Saturn games from mag articles and box art lol.
Yes to the D3 question, it would lessen the value of the auction houses but only if Diablo 3's item generation becomes decent so finds and items in the stores are actually useful.
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The construction of the unit looks ok, but the finish is cheap and sloppy. The panels that contain the "dots" don't line up and end up making the dots un evenly spaced. I only had this mirror out of the box for 10 minutes and I knew that I couldn't live with it. The idea is kind of cool but the execution is lacking.
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Chip Kelly has a new toy to play with in his offense this season. After searching for key skill position players to fill out the roster, the Philadelphia Eagles have reached a one-year agreement with former Dallas Cowboys running back Felix Jones.
Former Cowboys running back Felix Jones reached agreement on a one-year deal with the Philadelphia Eagles.
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) May 14, 2013
A former first-round draft pick for the Cowboys backs in 2008, Jones spent his entire career in Dallas before losing the starting job to DeMarco Murray after suffering an injury in 2011. Jones then missed the entire 2012 season with an injury and it was this injury that likely meant the end of him with the Cowboys.
But while his Cowboys career is over, Jones' NFL career continues in the NFC East with Chip Kelly's Eagles squad. The curtains are still up when it comes to what Kelly's offense will look like, but one thing we all assume is he'll need speedy skill players to make it work. Jones fits the bill in the regard and his gig with the Eagles will give him a chance to make the Cowboys pay twice a year for letting him go.
The deal is just for one season which gives Jones even more motivation to perform at a high level in 2013 as a nice contract could be waiting for him at the end of the season if he excels with his new team.


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Fossil fuels will likely remain the mainstay of global energy production well into the 21st century. "Carbon sequestration" is the term given to a suite of technologies that can remove CO2 from large point sources, such as power plants, oil refineries and industrial processes, or from the air itself. The CO2 can then be stored in geologic formations such as depleted oil and gas reservoirs, deep coal seams or saline reservoirs. It can also be stored in plants, trees and soils by increasing their natural CO2 uptake.
Because carbon sequestration holds the potential both to reduce emissions of CO2 from point sources and to remove CO2 from the air, sequestration research has grown over the last five years from small-scale, largely conceptual studies, to one of the highest single technology priorities. Federal agencies are exploring innovative or breakthrough concepts on carbon capture and various modes of sequestration, including terrestrial, geologic, and oceanic. Additionally, through the Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum, the United States is collaborating with more than a dozen other countries on carbon capture and storage technologies.
The Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum
"The Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum will help unite interested governments and focus attention on the development of carbon sequestration technologies."
Established by the U.S. State Department and DOE in February 2003, the Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum (CSLF) coodinates data gathering, R&D and joint projects to advance the development and deployment of carbon sequestration technologies worldwide. CSLF held its first ministerial-level meeting on carbon sequestration in June 2003. High-level representatives from 14 countries, the European Commission, and over 400 members of the international energy, business and government communities participated and signed CSLF charter.
Multi-Agency Carbon Sequestration Research
DOE carbon sequestration research activities encompass all aspects of carbon sequestration and is composed of three elements: a core R&D program, FutureGen, and the Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships. Core R&D efforts are aimed at developing a portfolio of technologies to cost-efficiently capture and permanently store CO2. These technologies will provide the technical base for the program's two initiatives.
Core R&D emphasizes technologies that directly capture CO2 from large point sources and store the emissions in geologic formations. Reducing net CO2 emissions from these facilities with CO2 capture technology represents an opportunity to achieve substantial emissions reductions. Storing CO2 in geologic formations is considered an attractive option for a number of reasons. In the case of depleted oil reservoirs or deep coal seams, CO2 can be used to enhance oil recovery or produce methane thus providing economic incentive to store carbon. Furthermore, saline reservoirs are geographically located througout the world and have the capacity to store vast amounts of CO2.
Both the ocean and many terrestrial ecosystems are sinks of atmospheric CO2 that could potentially be enhanced. The DOE R&D program on carbon sequestration includes research to provide a scientific underpinning needed to develop and understand the potential effectiveness of strategies for enhancing carbon sequestration in terrestrial ecosystems and the ocean, including study of possible unintended consequences of that sequestration.
DOE also supports a multi-laboratory consortium for Carbon Sequestration in Terrestrial Ecosystems (CSiTE) to perform fundamental research on mechanisms that can enhance terrestrial carbon sequestration as one component of a more comprehensive carbon management strategy. CSiTE is investigating mechanisms and critical pathways for creating larger and longer-lasting terrestrial carbon pools and seeking to understand, quantify, and enhance natural mechanisms where substantial amounts of carbon are assimilated and sequestered by terrestrial ecosystems.
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DOE also supports research on two potential methods of enhancing ocean sequestration. One is direct injection of a relatively pure CO2 stream that has been generated at a power plant or industrial source, and the other enhances net oceanic uptake from the atmosphere through iron or other types of nutrient fertilization. DOE's R&D focuses on the long-term effectiveness and potential environmental consequences of this carbon sequestration strategy.
The core DOE Carbon Sequestration Program also includes research to accelerate understanding of the functional genomics of plant species (e.g., poplar trees) that might be used to modify plant genetics and/or management of plants and ecosystems to both take up more CO2 from the atmosphere and to store it in long-lived pools such as recalcitrant soil organic matter. This work is carried out at the National Laboratories, universities, and private research organizations.
USDA's global change research program, conducted under the CCSP, is strengthening efforts to determine the significance of terrestrial systems in the global carbon cycle and to identify agricultural and forestry activities that can contribute to GHG reductions in the atmosphere. USDA research agencies are supporting the President's directive to develop accounting rules and guidelines for carbon sequestration projects. Contributions include the development of improved emission and sequestration coefficients, new tools for accurately measuring carbon and other greenhouse gases, and the development of improved methodologies.
Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships
On August 16, 2003, DOE named seven regional partnerships of state agencies, universities, and private companies to form the core of a nationwide network designed to determine the best approaches for capturing and permanently storing GHGs. Collectively, the partnerships include more than 140 organizations spanning 33 states, three Indian nations, and two Canadian provinces.
The Partnerships will develop a framework to validate and potentially deploy carbon sequestration technologies with a focus on determining which sequestration approaches are best suited for each geographic region. They will also study regional regulations, safety and environmental concerns, and the infrastructure that would be required if sequestration technologies were to be deployed. At the end of the first, two-year phase, the partnerships will recommend technologies for small-scale validation testing in a Phase II competition expected to begin in 2005.


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Music Metrics, Megaupload and Wu-Tang Clan News April 13, 2014
Experts talked about how music analytics are helping record labels, artists and others predict the future. And the film and music industries finally sued defunct online storage site Megaupload. Also, Forbes explored how Wu Tang Clan's recent album release strategy is sparking sales and why replicating it might help other artists in the future.
Can Studying Music Metrics Help Build Stable Careers for Artists?
While labels, some artists and others have complained that the Internet has taken away their power, it can also help them see into the future and better predict marketing and sales strategies, reported The Guardian.
Before the Digital Age, music lovers would show support for their favorite artists by buying posters, t-shirts and physical copies of albums. But in the early years of digital downloads, before Last.fm and Spotify, fans could keep their listening habits private. While labels and artists could tell which radio station was playing specific songs or where CDs were popular, there was no real way to track information about what listeners were sharing with friends on tapes, CDs, etc.
Director of digital at Universal Music UK Paul Smernicki said, "The traditional metrics like sales told us a record or CD was sold, but nothing about what happened after that."
Now, data from torrenting, music streaming sites and social media platforms is allowing the music industry to better understand fans and predict future superstars. Music analytics has exploded into an approximately $3 billion annually.
The music industry has always been full of talent scouts and tastemakers responsible for finding "the next big thing" before it was discovered by the rest of the world. However, now music analytics is turning finding future hits into a science.
Music analytics firm Musicmetric has been tracking thousands of artists for the past five years and can now pinpoint some signs that reveal whether or not a song or an artist will be a hit. A successful artist will have followers on Twitter, "like"s on Facebook and sales via sites like BandCamp.
Gregory Mead, chief executive of Semetric, the company behind Musicmetric stated, "It's no different [from] a sensor in a factory that's detecting vibrations on a machining piece, and when the vibrations start vibrating in a particular way they can detect that it's going to fail."
When an artist starts "buzzing in a certain way," music industry experts can tell that artist will hit big. Mead said that in one study for an undisclosed client, they were able to predict with 90 percent accuracy who was going to hit #1 in three months.
However, making predictions means making sense of a huge amount of information coming from a variety of websites, platforms and services. Most artists have several albums and dozens of singles and music videos circulating across several platforms.
Mead admitted, "For a big artist like Katy Perry, there [are] about 19,000 different signals we have just for that artist. Each video, in each territory, on each platform, each release and each song and so on. No one's going to be able to look at that [by hand]."
And the ultimate issue is being able to turn those "signals" into information a manager can use when choosing a tour route, or that a talent scout can use when deciding whether or not to follow up with an artist.
Spotify has also entered the metrics game. In March, the company acquired The Echo Nest, a U.S.-based music analytics company in order to improve its music discovery services. And competitor Next Big Sound was called "Moneyball for Music" by Forbes. The music industry is starting to realize that social data and big data are critical.
However, Mead stressed that the ability to scientifically predict a hit does not tell artists what music to make: "It doesn't say this is the song you should make. It just tells you a little bit in advance that it's going to be popular."
He added that it also can create greater artistic diversity and see more closely into niche audiences and fan bases: "It opens up opportunities for artists to help promote themselves, rather than restrict everyone to conforming."
Mead concluded, "It's important to remember that it's just a set of tools to help inform us. That data doesn't make the decisions; that's an un-replicable part of what we do."
Entertainment Industry Finally Suing Megaupload
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) filed civil suits against the out-of-commission online storage site Megaupload this past week. According to The Wire, the allegations are that the site willingly hosted pirated material and encouraged users to use the site for illegal purposes.
The site's founder, Kim Dotcom was raided in January, 2012 when the FBI seized the Megaupload domain name and filed criminal charges.
RIAA's complaint read, "To ensure a vast and ever-growing supply of popular copyrighted content to which they could sell premium access … defendants paid users to upload popular content to Megaupload's servers."
Dotcom's lawyer, Ira Rothken responded, "The Department of Justice asserts that Megaupload cost the film and music industries more than $500 million. Online storage sites like Megaupload and video sites like YouTube that allow user accounts are normally protected against legal action for content uploaded by users. What makes this case different, according to the DOJ, is the claim that Megaupload actively encouraged copyright infringement."
Wu-Tang Clan's Sales Strategy: Wave of the Future?
Wu-Tang clan announced it would only be pressing one copy of the new release The Wu – Once Upon a Time In Shaolin, then put it up for auction after a museum listening tour. And music industry experts said it was just a publicity stunt. However, as Bobby Owsinski of Forbes pointed out, the "stunt" has worked, increasing the group's visibility. And it also presents a case study for the methods behind Economic of Free, a theory concocted by economist Chris Anderson.
As Owsinski pointed out, The Economic of Free applies to modern music industry sales, because the artist has two kinds of products: infinite and scarce. "Infinite products" include digital music or videos, which are free to reproduce. "Scarce products" are custom CDs, CD box sets, signed merchandise and personal and exclusive access to musicians in the form of backstage passes, private concerts, etc.
The first principle of the theory is "Give some or all of your infinite products away for free in order to charge for the more scarce ones." This is happening across the Internet with "freemiums." For instance, when a user signs up for the free version of Pandora or Spotify and then likes the experience, that user can then purchase the ad-free version with better audio quality.
In the music industry, those transactions that embody the first principle involve "social currency," such as a free download/exclusive content, traded for an email address. This type of transaction makes it possible for artists and bands to keep offering other products to fans that can be purchased later and bring in more revenue.
The second principle of the Economic of Free, said Owsinski is used less frequently, but is working well for Wu-Tang Clan: "The more scarce a product is, the more you can charge for it."
Wu-Tang is only offering one copy of the album, so that album will be incredibly valuable to hardcore fans. The auction has yet to begun, and reports have already indicated some fans are willing to pay $5 million for the product.
Other artists offer limited-edition items like pictures, drum heads and guitars. However, the scarce items that are the most valuable to fans tend to be related to an experience rather than a product: backstage passes; entrance to a VIP room; dinner with the artist; a visit to a rehearsal or the recording studio. Britney Spears charges up to $5,000 for a "Total Experience" VIP package to her Caesar's Palace show in Las Vegas. This package involves a backstage tour, a meet and greet, a Britney-themed gift bag and an opportunity to appear on stage with her.
Wu-Tang's latest marketing and sales strategy is not new in the music industry. And, the physical album is only valuable as long as no material leaks. A lot of boutique record labels have used this sales model for years, issuing 1,000 copies of an album that are numbered. The superfan would pay to have a number as close to one as possible. Wu-Tang has taken this idea to an "extreme" level by only making one copy.
And Wu-Tang's strategy could work well in an industry where physical product sales are dwindling, but not going away entirely, stated Owsinski. Knowing they will not sell a lot of physical copies of albums, artists could print a limited amount and make them collectors' items. And this could potentially help artists and labels recoup some of the money lost on album sales.
Music Business News, January 28, 2012
Last week, new theories surfaced about the real impetus for the Megaupload shutdown as further details about the recent arrests emerged. And two Mötley Crüe members weighed in about the oddities of the modern music business and what artists can do to succeed. Also, Grammy® winner Ne-Yo joined Motown as an A&R executive with hopes of reshaping its artist roster and making music a more unifying force.
Megaupload's Fall May Not Have Been about Piracy
The dramatic shut-down of Megaupload and arrest of its founder Kim "Dotcom" last week may not have entirely been about piracy, according reports in a variety of publications, including TechCrunch and Time magazine. The move by the U.S. Justice Department could have been part of a plan initiated by the music industry to protect itself from the ramifications of Megaupload's soon-to-be-released, disruptive music store and DIY artist distribution service.
Plans for the "Megabox" service were first released by TorrentFreak in December. While the service was still in beta, listed partners included 7digital, Gracenote, Rovi and Amazon. And Megaupload had launched a marketing battle against major music industry groups, including the RIAA and the MPAA, who showed Kim Dotcom in an anti-piracy film. The site had also sued Universal Music Group for blocking its YouTube campaign featuring a variety of major recording artists singing its praises.
But many sources speculate it was actually the impending launch of Megabox that added the most fuel to the fire, as Dotcom himself had described the service as a major iTunes competitor. Megabox had plans to offer free premium movies via its "Megamovie" site, which, along with its many music streaming and services to artists would have moved it from being a mere digital locker site to being a major transformative device for digital content.
Megabox had outlined a model that would allow unsigned artists and any other unattached content creators to sell their works through the site and pocket 90% of their earnings. Artists would have also had the option to completely give away songs and still be paid for them through a "Megakey" service. According to its founder, Megabox had potentially discovered way to get around the labels, RIAA and the entire music business.
And due to Megaupload's gigantic size, popularity and support by some potentially influential musicians, it may have been able to succeed where other services have not yet been able to legally. According to a report by Time, the rapper (and superstar Alicia Keys' husband) Swizz Beatz was officially listed on the Megaupload website as its CEO just prior to its shutdown. While he hasn't been implicated in the lawsuit, and experts speculate this title was just a vanity title that emerged as part of the celebrity YouTube campaign, his presence further supported the site's reach.
Before it closed last week, Megaupload was the 13th most visited site on the Internet and made up 4% of all global Internet traffic. It had 180 million registered users, 50 million daily visitors and was already a service many artists trusted to distribute their digital content. Megabox was set to monetize all this and pass on a majority of its earnings directly to artists. Kim Dotcom and a handful of other executives have been charged with racketeering, money laundering and multiple counts of piracy.
Vince Neil and Mick Mars: Where is the "Weird" Music Industry Headed?
Mötley Crüe singer Vince Neil and guitarist Mick Mars each discussed the current music industry climate this past week and talked about how artists can find success.
According to Neil, the music industry is vastly changed since his band first found fame in the '80s, and the many places artists now have to focus in order to be seen presents major challenges: "… There are so many different outlets for music now. Thirty years ago, you had MTV; everybody watched MTV and everybody saw your video. There was one place to go; now there [are] thousands of places to go … it's just harder to get everybody to look at you at the same time."
He also said that there is not much that is "secret" in today's business. Social media has given fans the opportunity to get closer to their favorite artists: "I think with all the social media everybody pretty much knows everything. What you're doing and where you've been and where you're going."
And Mick Mars stated that today's bands are going to have to come up with new methods for delivering music to their fans, because the music industry is "getting weird:" "I think the future will have to see bands put together really cool packages that will be worth it for people to go see."
Mötley Crüe begins a Las Vegas residency in February. Though Mars admitted he would rather be touring than staying put, he admitted he feels hopeful that the residency will inspire other artists to start their own residencies and open up the industry to new ideas: "I know it is a cool thing we are doing, and that we are probably going to make this possible for other bands to do the same thing. I don't know if we are planning on doing more of this type of thing or not. We are going to have to check it out and see."
Ne-Yo Named Senior VP of A&R at Motown
As recently-appointed A&R executive at Motown, 32-year old, award-winning artist Ne-Yo hopes to help the industry and music fans revert back to a united front, according to a report by Fox News. The Grammy® winner's new title was announced by Universal Music on January 25. He has multiple hits as a solo artist and has written huge songs for Rihanna, Beyonce and others.
While Motown has its roots in black music, this type of music originated as art that could appeal to everyone and unite fans. And Ne-Yo said that he hopes to return to this idea in a music industry that he believes is becoming increasingly segregated: "I want to get back to a place where everybody's listening to the same thing no matter what race, color, creed you are …Now there's music that's specifically for black people and there's music that's specifically for white people, and I feel like the essence of … music is lost when you do that."
In his new A&R role, he hopes to bring artists to the label that are deeply talented but also willing to work. He wants to focus on those who are driven to be working musicians, not just "one-hit wonders:" "I definitely plan on making sure the people I bring to the industry are going to be an asset to the industry as opposed to a liability … It's more than 'She looks good in a short skirt' or 'He looks good with his shirt off' – it's about somebody that has talent."
Ne-Yo is set to release his fifth album in summer, 2012 and will be moving over to the Motown Records label himself from Island Def Jam, also a subsidiary of Universal Music.
Music Business News, January 21, 2012
This past week in music, industry analysts highlighted trends that have emerged during the Digital Age as experts claimed January is the best month for artists at all levels to release an album, and a study of the Billboard chart system showed that artists who show up on these charts only spend about five years there. Also, the file-sharing giant MegaUpload was finally shut down by the U.S. Department of Justice and labeled a "mega conspiracy."
Want to Make it Big? Release Something in January
January has long been labeled a "dead month" in the music industry. But a study of artist releases – both major label and independent – conducted by the Independent showed it could actually be the perfect time for particularly emerging or lesser-known bands to sell more albums and register on the charts. And scoring a #1 hit is a good move for any band, as it increases sales, radio airplay and can garner better spots at live music festivals.
Since 2006, January releases have catapulted quite a few independent bands and artists to #1 on the charts, including The Arctic Monkeys in 2006 (Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not) and The View in 2007 (Hats off to the Buskers). And Adele's #1 success in January, 2008, 19 inspired her to release her album 21 in January 2011, an album which sold 200,000 copies in its first week and made her the best-selling artist of last year.
What is the advantage for artists of a January release? The biggest benefit is that sales of just 30,000 albums can earn them a #1 spot, whereas in other months, that sales figure would have to be about three-times that much.
This year, new artist Lana Del Rey is hoping to replicate Adele's formula for success by releasing her debut album at the end of this month. However, in competition with her will be Adele herself as well as more established artists Bruno Mars and London indie band The Maccabees, all releasing their third albums the same week.
Experts say the real reason January can be such a prime month for new artists in particular to get noticed is because it is during this time of year that the media and music fans are hungriest for something new. According to John Hirst from HMV, there has typically been six weeks of silence after Christmas and "…When no one's released a record for two months the public's appetite is for something new. It's easier to get media attention and positive reviews so an album can over-perform."
How Long is the Career of a Billboard Artist?
Artists who make Billboard charts are there for only about five years on average, according to a study spend on average only about five years A recently-released professional study conducted by Storm Gloor, MBA at the University of Denver's College of Arts and Media (CAM) and published in the 2011 Music and Entertainment Industry Educators Association (MEIEA) Journal. And according to Gloor, more than one-third who make the charts will be "one-hit wonders."
This study is based on analysis of Billboard charts and other pop music data and is phase one of a research project designed to figure out how artists' popularity and the length of their careers have been impacted by the huge music industry shift brought on by the digital revolution and other major events of the past 15 years. This first part of the study analyzed over 50 years of Billboard music charts.
The official results were that artists stay on Billboard charts in some capacity from 3.95-6.16 years and that 34-percent of those whose debut albums – of any genre –hit the charts only appear there once. However, with pop artists, that figure is 50 percent.
Gloor said the results of this study will be particularly important to aspiring artists who want to plot out real, long-lasting careers in music: "The research is important to aspiring artists in understanding their own long-term planning in light of such realities. They need to know what they are facing as they start planning for their careers and beyond." He also said this information could help labels, as they will be able to use it to create more effective promotional strategies for their artists going forward.
The second part of Gloor's study will involve an examination of music business trends and how they affect the popularity of artists who make the charts. According to Gloor, his initial findings have been that artists who chart might gain national popularity faster, but will not likely stay in the spotlight for long.
MegaUpload Shut Down by Feds
One of the world's most formidable file-sharing websites MegaUpload finally bit the dust on Thursday as it was shut down by the U.S. Department of Justice for violation of piracy and copyright laws. The feds issued an indictment declaring that MegaUpload was a "mega conspiracy" and labeled it a global criminal organization stating its members "engaged in criminal copyright infringement and money laundering on a massive scale."
The indictment also charges MegaUpload executives with earning $175 million through subscription fees and advertisements and taking $500 million in royalties from movie producers, authors, musicians and other copyright holders.
According to an article in The Washington Post, prosecutors stated that the company attempted to hide the fact that they were paying users to upload illegal movies and music and used the financial windfall this practice created for a "lavish lifestyle." Federal agents confiscated dozens of luxury autos, including site founder Kim Schmitz's, aka "Kim Dotcom"'s Rolls-Royce, which sported the license plate "GOD."
Of course, MegaUpload is just one of a number of services that provide file sharing online. Sites such as Mediafire and Rapidshare and also cloud storage services like Box.net and Dropbox also offer easy ways to share content. This shutdown and the potentially impending SOPA and PIPA bills – which brought about internet-wide protests by Craigslist, Wikipedia and Google last week – has many running legitimate services concerned about their future and whether or not the government has the right, even in the absence of a passed bill, to shut sites down for hosting pirated content without allowing the companies to defend themselves in court first. As Eric Goldman, a professor of intellectual property law at Santa Clara University said, "They will wonder if they have done anything different from MegaUpload, and does that mean the Feds will come through their door?"
One detail that made MegaUpload different was that it managed to get celebrities on board to support it with its online marketing campaign featuring Kanye West, Lil' Jon, Sean "Diddy" Combs as well as Russell Simmons and director Brett Ratner, who all professed their love for the site in a series of promotional videos.
The indictment against MegaUpload was unsealed Thursday, but was issued by a federal court in Virginia on January 5. The Justice Department released a statement with the indictment: "This action is among the largest criminal copyright cases ever brought by the United States and directly targets the misuse of a public content storage and distribution site to commit and facilitate intellectual property crime."
Authorities were dispatched last week to arrest three MegaUpload executives employed by its two companies Megaupload Ltd. and Vestor Ltd. in New Zealand, including the site's founder, Schmitz. The indictment also charged the two companies with running a "racketeering conspiracy, conspiring to commit copyright infringement, conspiring to commit money laundering and two substantive counts of criminal copyright infringement."
In retaliation for the shutdown on Thursday, a hacker group named "Anonymous," linked to the Twitter accounts @YourAnonNews and @AnonOps took down the websites for the Department of Justice and Universal Music as well as for the Recording Industry of America and the Motion Picture Association of America.
The Justice Department also seized 18 additional domain names linked to the case.
Music Business News, December 31, 2011
Happy New Year! In this last week of the year, technology innovation was highlighted as Megaupload launched a new online music locker and a Spotify executive shared her thoughts on the powerful present and future of digital music. Also, Reuters announced that the music industry has finally seen a profit in 2011 for the first time since 2004.
Megaupload's New "Megabox" Music Storage Space Launched
The controversial file-sharing site Megaupload announced the arrival of Megabox, a web-based online music locker and player and fully-integrated music store. But an article published on the Billboard.biz site, the company may face some significant challenges.
Based in New Zealand, Megabox works similarly to many other online music lockers, including Google Music, Amazon Cloud Drive or mSpot. Music is uploaded using Megaupload's file-uploading application Megakey and sent directly to the user's online locker. While the website does not indicate exactly how much storage space each user gets, information implies that it is capable of handling anyone's entire music library.
Megabox also has a social networking component that allows people to search for and follow friends and send messages to them using the service.
And the music purchasing element of Megabox is its least striking component, though it is connected to Amazon and 7digital. Information about available music comes from Sony's Gracenote service.
But Megabox will likely have some legal issues to overcome. History has shown that P2P services can create successful free file-sharing services that attract significant numbers of users. But legally-created stores and viable services are a much different story in the digital space. Limewire tried its hand at an MP3 store, but the service shut down late last year. And iMesh debuted a service that mimics P2P in 2005 after settling its lawsuit with record labels.
Over 50 million people use Megaupload daily, and the site accounts for 4 percent of Internet traffic worldwide. The key to Megabox's success could lie in being able to appeal to its global popularity and huge user base.
Some Quick Music Industry Predictions from a Spotify Executive
Spotify's VP of marketing, Angela Watts last week shared her assessment of the digital music space in 2011 and gave her forecast for 2012 in an interview with The Guardian. While she focused her statements heavily on the influence her company specifically has had on the music business, she did offer some insightful words about how innovations in online music has changed the way people use it to connect with each other.
She named 2011 as a "watershed" for the music industry: "The line between music access and ownership is blurring now that you can listen to whatever music you want, wherever you are." And she added that new streaming services have expanded music listening and discovery into a collective experience that creates an ongoing conversation: "We've seen a big psychological shift with the realization that you don't need to own music, that your musical universe can be blown wide open by not only having all of your tunes at your fingertips, but that of your friends, your favorite artist … Music forms such an important part of people's lives and is to be given the power to discover, share and enjoy an unlimited amount."
In this interview, Watts also hinted that the Spotify platform would be significantly expanding its apps offering in 2012.
Music Industry Profits Officially Up in 2011
Year-to-year comparisons put 2011's album sales up from 2010, so says a report released by Reuters. Though the Soundscan sales year does not end until January 1, numbers show that by a small margin of 1 percent, this year will mark the first year there hasn't been a profit loss in the music business since 2004.
In 2010, sales had dropped 13 percent since 2009. And before that, they had been steadily declining by an average of 8 percent annually since the early-mid 2000s as the industry adjusted to the rise of digital music.
But there is concern among experts, as the big successes of 2011 will not be very easy to recreate in 2012. The two highest-selling albums were Adele's 21 and Michael Buble's Christmas. And neither of these artists represent what has made for the typical "hit."
Reuters also provided a rundown of what was successful and what failed in 2011. The following are the top three:
- "Retro." Adele and the Black Keys gained popularity by making older music fans nostalgic and reinvigorating the idea of the "throwback" in a way that also appealed to the a younger generation. (And Adele's 21 album should hit just under 6 million sales by January 1.)
- The return of the Christmas album. Every year there is a strong Christmas album seller. And this year, everyone bet on pop star Justin Bieber's release. However, Michael Buble beat him out by almost a million copies, selling 1,964,000 units. Buble's Christmas is currently the #3 best-selling album of 2011 and will likely take over Lady Gaga's #2 spot when the sales year closes.
- The decline of the big rock band. While U2 set a record for the highest-grossing tour of all time in 2010-2011, some of the biggest rock bands of the 2000s fared much worse. Evanescence only managed to sell 284,000 units of its long-anticipated third album (hitting only 101 on the charts). And Coldplay only sold 877,000 copies of Mylo Xyloto, compared to their last album, which sold 721,000 copies within its first week alone. And the Red Hot Chili Peppers only managed to unload 458,000 of their new album, compared to their last one which sold 2.5 million.
With digital music still on the rise (and music retailers ever shrinking), many wonder whether or not 2012 could possibly offer another surge – or even a flattening out – for the music industry.
Music Business News, December 17, 2011
This past week, lawsuits loomed as Megaupload sued Universal, and Sony and Warner both lashed out against free streaming service Grooveshark. Also, the head of digital at Universal Music shared his thoughts on the likely future of the music business.
Tables Turned on Universal Music Group (UMG)
In recent years, whenever there has been news of a lawsuit in the music industry, the story is usually about a major record label suing a digital music provider over copyright issues. However, last week the story was the opposite: Megaupload – a Hong Kong-based popular file-sharing site – filed suit in California on December 11 against UMG after the label blocked an original promotional music video created by Megaupload from YouTube, according to an article published last week in The New York Times.
The "Mega Song" video was posted on December 9 and featured pop stars such as Will.i.am, Kanye West, Mary J. Blige, Diddy, Alicia Keys and many others. They sang and spoke in support of the Megaupload site. Footage of their performances was interspersed with stats about the file-sharing service. Hours later, the clip was taken down by YouTube when UMG claimed copyright infringement.
The video seemed to be an original composition created by the file-sharing site, with the total consent of the artists. However, a spokesperson from the major label stated the reason for the take down as "unauthorized use of a performance from one of our artists," though the artist has not been identified specifically. The Hollywood Reporter speculated it was Will.i.am's lawyer Ken Hertz who filed a takedown notice and claimed the artist had not agreed to appear.
In the lawsuit, Megaupload states that all artists appearing in the video signed release forms that permitted the footage to be used for promotional purposes. In a statement, Megaupload's lawyer, Ira P. Rothken said that every artist shown in the clip had signed an all-encompassing release form. He added that the case was not even necessarily about copyright issues: "Each star was completely aware of what they were doing and the things they said."
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act protects YouTube and other similar sites if they unknowingly host illegal content, as long as they respond immediately to takedown notices. Rothken declared that the takedown incident is also a case of a major record label attempting to fight against free speech when it doesn't agree with the actions of its artists.
Grooveshark Under Fire … Again
Sony Music Entertainment and Warner Music Group are set to sue free streaming service Grooveshark last week over copyright infringement, joining a lawsuit filed in Manhattan by Universal, who claimed the service had violated copyright laws with the help of its executives.
Even though three of the four major labels are gearing up to go head-to-head with Grooveshark, not everyone in the music industry is against the company, which allows its users to upload songs in their own collection and share them through streaming with other listeners. The New York Times revealed the service has garnered the attention of several major advertisers , including Mercedez-Benz. And the company holds licensing agreements with a number of indie labels and with Merlin, an overarching organization that represents thousands of micro labels.
Once again, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act came into play, as Grooveshark claimed its music service is protected, as a company that provides third-party content and continues to comply with takedown notices filed by original copyright holders: "We respect the intellectual property of all artists, and our strict policies are designed to ensure that our users only upload content to which they are entitled."
The recent suit from Universal stated that Grooveshark's executives had uploaded thousands of songs themselves, claiming to have proof in the form of e-mails from the company's executives that bragged the company had been able to grow significantly without paying any record labels. The label also claimed that they had filed thousands of takedown notices, but continued to see the same music appear. Sony and Warner are expected to have similar evidence.
If Grooveshark is found guilty of breaking copyright laws, federal statutes could command penalties of as much as $150,000 per song.
UMG's President of Global Digital and the Future of Music
Rob Wells, who has overseen digital at Universal – home of superstars like Lady Gaga and U2 – for just over a year recently spoke to CNET about where he feels the music industry is headed. A self-professed lover of Spotify, he has regularly stated that he plans to take a very "progressive" approach to digital music.
When asked about whether he thought the music industry might finally be emerging from its slump and ditching some of its old attitudes about technology, he discussed the shifting attitudes of the music fan: "I have a very macro view of the industry … Consumers [globally] are invigorated again about music. They're invigorated about new services. They're invigorated about new devices, which are driving adoption of new services. In five, to 10 years, when we compare back a bit and look at this massive transition and upheaval of the business, I'm hoping 2012 will be an important year … not just from a digital perspective, but [from a] repertoire perspective."
Wells was also asked whether he saw any one music service as having the "momentum" to change the playing field, and whether any of the current services would be capable of taking down the dominant iTunes. He believes the rejuvenation of the music industry will not necessarily be about knocking down existing services to make way for new ones: "The phenomenal thing we're seeing is that all of these services are happily coexisting. We haven't seen a decline in any existing service's revenue alongside the launch of a new service or new model in any existing markets … These new platforms and services are all complementary."
He added, "This stuff about digital revenues and how freemium will have fun at the expense of other services is kind of irrelevant because it's incremental money. What we try to ensure is that there is plenty of clear air for every service to exist. "
And what are Wells' thoughts on piracy, which obviously continues to be a hot topic with the potential looming changes in copyright laws as they relate to digital and online content? He thinks the business needs to go back to its heart: consumers/music fans. "… Since piracy continues to be a challenge, we work to ensure that all of these services can happily coexist because ultimately this is about consumer choice. And the consumers are kind of favoring some services above others and of course you're getting some churn, but what we're not seeing is consumers churning away from richer revenue streams onto lesser or cheaper revenue streams."


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Despite widespread negativity regarding the plans, FIFA has voted to support president Sepp Blatter's 'six-plus-five' proposal limiting the number of foreign players in domestic football teams.
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Gold and silver futures extended their rallies Friday as investors opted for the metals amid a weak dollar and strong inflation numbers out of Europe.
Gold (-GC) for June delivery shot up $25.20, or 1.6%, to settle at an all-time high of $1,556.40 an ounce on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange. Spot gold prices were up $25.70, according to Kitco's gold index.
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The unanimous decision by the Fed to keep interest rates between 0% and 0.25% until at least the fall and to keep its balance sheet the same size after quantitative easing ends in June means cheap money will stay in the system for the medium term.
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