Music News coming from the inside of Quinn Records TM an Independent Record Label of blues, gospel, jazz, and soul music, homebased in St. Louis. Missouri.
KL was born and raised in the Washington DC metropolitan area, he was inspired in music by his grandfather,
the late Grant Williams 111, who played the tenor saxophone for Louis Armstrong band KL, started his musical
training at a young age in the traditional Baptist church.
K L started playing music professionally in the late 70`s with a local GO GO band.
Then he went on to form his own national gospel group. The group recorded its first gospel album on Redemption
Records which included the instant hit Victory, which vaulted the victory album to number 18 on the Billboard charts.
The album was a huge success and the group was nominated for the GMWA Excellence award, Dove award, and
Soul Train music nominee.
The group has also charted the Billboard at least 5 times. Then K L signed a contract on the Quinn Record Label.
The group was also nominated for a Grammy award for their latest album A Message From The Messengers. K L and
his group has performed all over America, appeared on national television shows. K L is now enjoying his latest
Soul R&B album`s which include Can You Get Away, Par-Tee Time, Somebody Said, Lied For The Last Time,
Do You Love Me, I Got My Swagg On, Sweetness Is Her Weakness, That Lady and Ms Niece.
LIST OF SINGLES & EP'S OF KEVIN WHEELER & KL&R2
A.-SINGLES
- Can You Get Away, (QRS41133-1) Release Date:10/22/2004
- Par-Tae! Get Your Groove On,(QRS51135-1) Release Date:01/01/2005
- Somebody Said,(QRS51138-1),Release Date: 02/07/2005
- Let's Go Party,(QRS13032-1), Released Date: 07/09/2013
B.
- EP
- I Got My Swag On, (QR100122-1),Release Date:06/03/2013
SONGS PERFORMED ON SHOW: Kevin Wheeler & KLR2
Let's Go Party
I Got My Swag On
Sweetness Is Her Weakness
If You Need Me
Lied For The First Time
In addition to several other songs from Kevin's albums and EP's.
Covered Songs Performed By Kevin Wheeler * KL&R2:
Can I Change My Mind- Tyrone Davis
Don't Let the Green Grass Fool You- Wilson Pickett
Sweet Caroline-Bobby Womack
Total Song List is 150+ songs performed own show by
Kevin Wheeler & KL&R2.
Average Showtime: 3-4 Hours long..
Covers: see above list.
Typical Repertoire: Blues/Soul/R&B
Despite gloomy reports coming from the state of the economy this year there's been quite interesting news all positive and complementary. Here are recent highlights reported by the RIAA :
• riaa reported their 2012 year-end sales and shipment numbers, including the increasing importance of streaming music – so-called “access models” which now total $1 billion in revenues
• new data from NPD finding that “subscription-based and free
Internet radio services accounted for nearly one quarter (23 percent) of the average weekly music listening time among consumers between the ages of 13 and 35, an increase from a share of 17 percent the previous year”
booming car sales so far in 2013, which, as Billboard observed, portend further positive news for music business:
First, better integration between app and auto will mean more subscribers
to services like Spotify, which allow smartphone owners to take music into
the vehicle via cached files. Second, more listening to Internet radio over
broadcast radio means more money. Whereas broadcast radio lacks a
performance right, digital services have a performance right that results in
royalties paid for Internet radio listening.
Jonathan Lamy, EVP, Communications, RIAA said, that this is a positive virtuous
cycle, with each set of data points and facts further validating each other and the
underlying proposition.
RIAA year-end 2012 numbers showed substantial growth in these access models.
NPD 2012 data showed more usage of and time spent with these types of services.
And a booming car industry is leveraging fans’ appetite for these services and the
popularity of music generally to offer more value to would-be customers.
This year auto show, one companies touted music app integration as one of their
key selling points.
All these developments are interrelated, and all suggest a streaming music market
that will only further expand in importance and reach.
GLOBAL RECORDED MUSIC INDUSTRY REVENUES INCEASED by Dwight L. Quinn
Global recorded music industry revenues increased by an estimated 0.3 per cent in 2012, the first year of industry growth since 1999, to US$16.5 billion. Digital revenues increased by an estimated 9 per cent to US$5.6 billion in 2012, now accounting for around 34 per cent of global industry revenues. Download sales increased in volume by 12 per cent globally in 2012 and represent around 70 per cent of overall digital music revenues The number of people paying to use subscription services leapt 44 per cent in 2012 to 20 million. Subscription revenues are expected to account for more than 10 per cent of digital revenues for the first time in 2012. Digital channels account for the majority of record companies' income in an increasing number of markets including India, Norway, Sweden and the US Digital retailers' rapid global expansion is opening up the potential for markets such as Brazil and India, to become major sources of future industry growth. At the start of 2011, the major international services were present in 23 countries. Two years later, they are in more than 100 countries. Digital music consumption has become mainstream, as shown by consumer research by Ipsos MediaCT across nine markets in four continents. Two-thirds of internet users (62%) have used a licensed digital music service in the past six months. Among younger consumers (aged 16-24) this figure jumps to 81 per cent. Consumer satisfaction with licensed music services is demonstrably high. 77 per cent of users of licensed services rate them as excellent, very good or fairly good. Even 57 per cent of those who use unlicensed services believe "there are good services available for legally accessing digital music." Many non-digital revenue channels are also increasing. Performance rights income increased in value by an estimated 9.2 per cent in 2012 and now accounts for around 6 per cent of overall industry revenues, up from 3 per cent in 2007. Album charts in most markets show that investment in local repertoire is alive and well. In many countries, local repertoire accounts for the vast majority of the top selling albums of the year. Five major non-English language markets illustrate this. In Italy, Spain and Sweden, eight in 10 of the top selling albums of 2012 were by local artists; in Germany, seven in 10, and in France six in 10.
Do you know of, or can recall of any industry that has reinvented itself like the music business has during the past decade and a half?
Fifteen years ago the CD was the main format
for listening to music and the digital marketplace
was just beginning. Now here we are today and there are more than 400+ authorized digital music services worldwide offering more than 14 million songs.
Digital sales already comprise nearly half of total revenues for the music business in the United States.
To make a long story short, it’s no longer about CDs,it’s about access to music anytime, anywhere and the experience,convenience and the accessibility that keeps fans coming back for more, more and more.
And of course their are going to be different business models that will continue to evolve, but around
one fundamental objective: it will all be about the music.
More than any other art or entertainment form, music transports, transforms and reconnects us.
But behind the emotional attachment and beyond the artist on the album cover is an army of people who make the music play – planning, developing and investing in your next favorite song.
Providing the songs that make up the soundtrack to your life takes significant work and investment, and
the modern label is committed to giving fans more musical options than ever. Which is just another
reason why the music industry is the best industry in the world.
It's the label/artist collaboration that takes talent to the next level, pairing a great act with a well-tailored package that transforms an aspiring musician into a successful artist - the perfect song, unforgetable cover art, a groundbreaking music video, and a push to nationwide play on FM and digital radio services like Pandora and Sirius XM Satellite Radio. For more than four decades, the QRTM’s premier Blues, Gospel, Jazz and Soul music recording program has manifested major music sales and extraordinary artist achievements. First formatted to LP recordings but expanded to a variety of newer formats as technology advanced to include cassette tapes, CDs, digital tracks, digital albums, and ringtones, more than 633 titles have been recorded by the Quinn Records TM Music Company since 1971. Visit Us: www.quinnrecords.net Mobile App:Download It Here Follow Us: Facebook Twitter
Promoting and marketing of the artist is among one of the
largest line item spending accounts in Quinn Records TM’s
budget.
In a extemely high competitive market it is important for
artists to benefit from having promotional support if they are
to have the opportunity to build and connect with a large audience.
Today the marketing mix used to promote our artist to fans has
changed dramatically over recent years.
Social media channels now complement traditional gatekeepers
such as radio and television. With an educated guess,we estimate
that just five years ago 75 to 80 per cent of our marketing dollars
spent was targeted at broadcast advertising, now this amount has
fallen to less than 55 per cent of our marketing budget while the
increase in online marketing will reach an expected equal balance
between the two media mix of 50/50.
Social marketing is constantly growing.
When we released Kevin Wheeler’s KL&R2 album, I Got My Swag
On in 2010 among the top ten things we needed to do in promoting it was to include –
the YouTube video (Quinn President Choice), and a music-targeted Facebook
campaign, an Online marketing strategy. Several of the channels did
not exist when their previous album, Par-Tae! Get Your Groove On had been released five years earlier. This was also true when we
released their latest album If You Need Me! In July, we again had
to add several more new platforms to the mix.”
The growth of online media has meant that we have to spend
increasing resources to supply the content that these channels
need. Dwight Quinn says: “The content that we have to create in
the digital erea is probably two-fold in comparsion to what it was
five years ago; with the people it has almost become a way of life.”
Ronnie Ray promotion manager Quinn Records TM agrees. “You
have to be in your best creative-mode when you do social marketing
for your artist, it has to be real-real, it has to be home-grown. It has to
come from the artist.
It can’t be just what we as a company feeds out to the fans.
What’s the message, who is it coming from, how does it get
to the consumer? We're planning in the very near future the creation of an entirely new digital department,
with upto 10 people.
There is so much we can be doing with our artists, with their content and with their music.” New media channels offer the opportunity
for us to communicate directly with our fans.
“The internet has become the new television, with immediate feedback and
real-time interaction.”
No two promotional campaigns are the alike.
Dwight says: “The real beauty of the music business is that there are no
scripts.
It’s about gut instinct and where ever the dice falls.
Why record companies are so relevant is that we can take more risks than
any other industry.” In our experience and our research into this subject we,discovered that today
promotional activities can often cover a broader range of activity than was once
not the case, traditionally.
Many artists such as our own, want to become involved in a range of areas,
“Some of our artists want to create clothing lines,fragrants, produce their own materials and so forth, so we, like the Major labels are bringing in experts to offer directions to this new, artist goal along with giving to the artist all sort of
advice that will assist the artist in obtaining their goals. So we're investing.
WE NOTICED A NEW NAME IN THE DIGITAL SERVICES BUSINESS by Dwight L. Quinn
Last month we noticed a new name added to the list of Digital Service companies selling Quinn Records TM music.
Of couse we're not there yet in terms of large revenues coming from the Digital stream, but it's clear to each and everyone of us in the record business that within the next five years,or so and
if not sooner,Digital Downloading when take the lead in being the main choice of accessing and aquiring music by cusumers.
Digital has added a new dimension to the services record companies provide for artists. Digital accounted for 31 per cent of record companies’ trade revenues in 2011 and the major services expanded their reach from 23 to 58 countries in the
same year. While some services, such as AmazonMP3 or iTunes, effectively replicate the physical format market with consumers buying albums or singles, others, such as Deezer, Spotify and VEVO, rely on either advertising income, people paying a monthly subscription fee or some combination of both.
Such services are still in the early stages of development but offer the opportunity of global scale. Subscription services in June 2012 had an estimated 16 million subscribers globally, a number that has almost doubled in the last 18 months.
Many streaming services are relatively recent start-ups.
One of the largest services, Spotify, only opened in Germany,the world’s third largest music market, in March 2012.
Spotify is most developed in Sweden, where large numbers of consumers use the paid-for subscription tier of the service, we believes it has had a positive effect. “In Sweden, Spotify has changed the music business and made it a happy place to work again.
Now large numbers of people have a premium account, the revenue stream is fantastic. People listen to an album or song and put it on their playlist. They won’t stop listening to it. It’ll be giving the artist and Quinn Records TM and other record company a revenue stream for years.
New Digital Service companies are sprouting up all over the place and streaming,downloading and buying music from a IPad,IPhone and/ or Tablets is sooner than ever is fast becoming the the norm.
We at Quinn Records TM with our new mobil app is still making it easy or fans who are still hold fast to the interest of blues,gospel, jazz and soul music can have continuous access to our music.
Our mobile-app is the cusumers gateway to current information that includes: Quinn's Top-10 Song Chart, music news, current events,Quinn's President Choice, shop n' buy at Quinn store, new releases, coming soon, catalog, tickets,coupons,Facebook, Twitter, photos,artist tour schedule and free music downloads.
Not only will our Mobile app give you access to our music but it would be like having a whole complete Record Company in the palm of your hands
