DIGITAL STORES BECOMING THE PRIMARY OUTLET FOR BUYING ALBUMS

by Dwight L. Quinn

Last year, 193 million CD's were sold vs. 118 million digital albums, according to Nielsen Soundscan's year-end data report. 
In the album format,digital jumped 6% in 2012, though fans still favor the physical version. 
While album sales at digital services outpaced those at mass merchants, they were far 
exceeded by the combined sales of physical albums at all outlets.

The breakdown in total album sales:

• Digital services such as iTunes and Amazon MP 3: 37%
• Walmart, Target and other mass merchants: 29%
• Best Buy and similar chains: 15%
• Non-traditional outlets such as Amazon physical sales, mail order, venue and fan club sales: 10%
• Indie stores: 7%

CD's, cost more than downloads, have been allocated  far less shelf space at Mass Merchants like Best Buy,Walmart,Target and other chains, fueling digital sale increases.
Digital is consistently growing, and that's to be expected as we get  away from physical 
purchases and get further into streams and music that nobody actually owns.
Its the price of progress.

And yet the LP comeback is flourishing. While only a small piece of the musical pie, vinyl rose 19%, reaching  4.6 million copies in 2012, breaking the 2011 record of 3.9 million.
The wax-is-back, the old way of experiencing music continues to grow every year. 
"A lot of people still want something with value, an element that music have always been able
to give to its users."

NEWS & UPDATES TO BE REPORTED:

NEWS & UPDATES TO BE REPORTED:

APD Global Radio Indicator Charts ™

Top 50 APD Blues / Jazz / R&B Albums - Last Week, 

(as of 10:18 pm Friday, May 24th 2013)

#48-Quinn Records TM Present "GO SLOW Blues Crossing"

Location: AMERICA NORTH: USA:Missouri (MO)

2013 Summer Release Season

by Dwight L. Quinn

We're well into our 2013 Summer release season. And the Season looks  very good  for CD Sales,because of their unexpected increase  during this tuf economy. Of course that's music to our ear. Since  the past five years or so, we've released our projects in both formats digital and CD. We know that Digital and streaming is a great way for  fans to get their music fast and convenient, but the CD is still the format of choice by fans and industry professionals. In fact this is not a new phenomenon in the music industry. The music industry has always offered music in two formats simultaneously. 
 This Summer we are going to release three new projects and they're all going to be available in both formats digital and CD,also our customers still will be able to buy the releases in our Special order formats,vinyl, cassette tape and sheet music. This year projects will have a difference that is going to be easily recognized by our regular customers and that is we're going to be offering several covers that will be playing a big part in this years releases and I'm rather excited about this plan because it is not usually our preference to use cover songs in a new projects, since we offer and promote to our customers, new music. Smooth Jazz is one the categories that we will be providing a new product. Kevin has finished four new cuts for this category and I know our Smooth Jazz fans are going to truly love what we got to offer them in the Smooth Jazz area. The other categories that we will  offer this Summer is of course, our signature category,"Blues" with the release of our hot,fast-moving CD Compilation,"GO SLOW-Blues Crossing",the album already has produced a lead off, run away hit song, it's James Gilbert's"Blues In The Morning" the song has been Blues Radio's top selection for the past nine weeks.Other popular songs on the Album is,"Mississippi Red's,Send Me Someone To Love,"Osee Anderson, Breaking Up Somebody's Home," Lil Aaron Mosby,Last Night" and Oliver Johnson,Want You Dance With Me". To further promote the GO SLOW-Blues Crossing Album we're booking a five city tour scheduled to start in July, 2013 promoting the the targeted Cities are,St.Louis,MO.,Chicago,IL.,Houston,TX.,Lansing,MI. and Memphis,TN. We're on a mission to galvanize our Artists fan base by bringing them a hot show that will be packed with new moving and entertaining sounds.

And if you would want the Show to stop in your City email; dwight@quinnrecords.net. 

 Lastly, we are expecting to cover a release in our Jazz category with a Single that's been on the drawing board for nearly three years and the cut is a most-waited on tune since a few Radio pros has already got a sample of it and sitting on needles waiting on it's completion. You can learn more about our new releases and coming soon projects on our website; Visit www.quinnrecords.net

READY OR NOT!

by Dwight L. Quinn
Face it, a big change have come to the record business and there is no turning back. Digital downloads are here to stay and so be it. For the record labels this means a big dip in revenues and of course,a new way of distributing their music. The compact disc allowed the labels to make more money and gave them a lot of marketing funds to do the job of getting the buzz out. Something the Digital format won't do in it's early stages, especially for the smaller label guy. The number of downloads that it takes to earn $7.00 is about 12.86 and/or 13 downloads. So if you have a Sales Budget of 65,000 units and/or $ 455,000.00 a year, you would to have a download of 1.9 million to make that same budget in the digital arena today,this by far is a big change. Does this mean, the compact disc is gone for good, absolutely not, it just means that the cd is going to be another side of the revenue stream such as the vinyl,videos,cassette tapes, a small but not totally a depleted product,etc. From 1990 to 2011, worldwide mobile phone subscriptions grew from 12.4 million to over 6 billion, penetrating about 87% of the global population and reaching the bottom of the economic pyramid. In economics, the bottom of the pyramid is the largest, but poorest socio-economic group. In global terms, this is the 4 billion people who live on less than US$2.50 per day.[1] The phrase “bottom of the pyramid” is used in particular by people developing new models of doing business that deliberately target that demographic, often using new technology. This field is also often referred to as the "Base of the Pyramid" or just the "BoP". Well this sector will be able to download music right from their mobile units. And never before has we ever been able to know who exactly is our End Users,until now.    We even know now, with a shadow of a doubt,what song is selling an album. But like with any progress, there are going to be casualties.And in this case,business models that are finding it hard to adapt to this new way users are getting their music and the niche music companies that have non-working artists. So, does a artists still needs a record label? My answer has always been this,does a sports professional need a coach? You can only be a master of one thing,and after almost 42 years I think that I'm still learning,something new, I'm more comfortable today of the music business than at anytime ever,I can see a bright light at the end of the tunnel. We know to increase sales there have to be an increase in productivity. There are more useful tools out here today to increase that productivity and viability. Artists are able to work more today and build fans faster and bigger today and that's the,"Key"to large Sales numbers. People buy things that they know, and if they like it, they become loyal to that thing.The more an Artist work,the more known they become and if the people like them,then they(the people) become loyal fans of the Artists ,then the Artist grows. It's clear to me is that the only thing that significantly changed in the music business is, how people get their music today. But the mechanics that makes it all happens, have not changed and that is, the Entertainment side,the Show business side,the show must go on side,the come on out and take another bow side. And this is what the whole thing  is all about. READY OR NOT!

NEWS & UPDATES

NEWS & UPDATES TO BE REPORTED:

APD Global Radio Indicator Charts ™

Top 50 APD Blues / Jazz / R&B Albums - Last Week, 

(as of 10:18 pm Thursday, May 9th 2013)

#13-Quinn Records TM Present "GO SLOW Blues Crossing"

Location: AMERICA NORTH: USA:Missouri (MO)

Quinn Records TM Remembers The Southern Harmonizers

by Dwight L. Quinn

The Southern Harmonizers were at that time a Radio Artist of Station WIBV in Belleville, Illinois and WESL located in East St. Louis, Illinois. Broadcasting on Sunday mornings at 8:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. and were  sponsored by the Ebony Insurance Company, Pat's Barber Shop, Totsie Hair Grower, New York Cleaners and Crisp Confectionery.My first awareness and contact with this group came when I was at the age of 12 years old. I would hear them rehearsing at a house next door to a neighborhood friend of mine that lived one block over from where I was living. The power of those voices with harmony so tight, it would be difficult to get air between the notes would leave me spelled-bound. They were singing without microphones and used no special effects tools like they do today. I  and my friends would stop playing marbles  and we would just listen, like the other neighbors was doing, they had us in their grasp, awesome entertainment coming from a house that made us,my friend and I wish that it was our house that they were rehearsing at, just to give us a boasting edge at school the next day. It was the kind of direct-to-the-point promoting that got real good attention.


The Southern Harmonizers were organized and founded in 1942 by Bro. Leonard Bell and Richard Orange. The original group members were Bro. Leonard Bell, Register Harris, Henry Summers, Harry Lee Barnes and Richard Orange.

At the beginning Bro.Richard Orange served as the Groups Manager from 1942 til 1945 when Bro. Rollie Davis joined the Group and later became it's Manager and served in that capacity until his death in 1972.
Under the the leadership of Bro. Rollie Davis, the following members united in the Group, Leslie Johnson, Alex Yates, Wilbert Jackson, Rev. Jimmie Harris, Leroy Crisp, Robert Wooten, Lee Mosby, Jesse Lawrence, John Thurman, Wiley Whitfield, Booker Jackson, and  Robert McAllister. After the death of Bro. Rollie Davis, Bro. Leroy Crisp took over the rein of Manger that lasted for one year. Bro. Crisp resigned because of the demands of his work. Bro. Register Harris became the the Groups 4th Manager and served in the managers capacity until poor health caused him to resign. The resignation of  Bro. Harris through the Group in limbo and caused them to become inactive for several years, until Bro. Leroy Crisp reactivated the Group and under his guidance and leadership the Group flourish once again. Bro. Crisp recruited several new members under his rein that included, Bro. Alonzo Collier, Bro. Larry Williams, Bro. Sylvester Davis, Bro. John Mathis, Rev. Anderson Sparks, Bro. John Wright, Bro. Rodney Richards and Bro. Raphael.

The Southern Harmonizers under the leadership of Bro. Leroy Crisp signed on to the Quinn Records TM label March 6th, 2006. They did not need to submit a demo, because those regular group rehearsal next door to my friend house in 1958 superseded  that Company's policy.

Bro. Leroy Crisp served as Manager of the Southern Harmonizers until his death in 2010.

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Keep Your Ears Up

TWO ROSTER ARTISTS
TO WATCH IN 2013

It's already established that 2013 is a big year for World music  by RIAA's account, music Sales has increased by a rather promising percentage. By all accounts the label scene is more vibrant than it has been in years. Steadfast positive attitude and optimism can have a strange feel to it but with our awesome demeanor towards self-appreciation  the news brings sure of relief. But, lately our music deserves it and some. In keeping, here are two Quinn Records TM 
roster artists that deserve your attention in 2013.

KL&R2: Kevin is taking on an ambitious undertaking that is bigger than what the group have experimented with in the past.
When KL&R2 first came to the label, they were hard-core hip/hop with many different focal points, but something changed in the making of their fifth single, things took off in  an entirely  different direction and today, with Kevin at  the helm as lead vocalist of KL&R2 the group is converted and re vamped itself into the World of R&B/Soul and when they lay their style down Live on stage they gets your attention. What the group is gearing up for today is touring. Kevin has put together a whole new band made up of funk jazz, soul and blues musicians that has a wealth of on stage experience.
KL&R2 is magic in that they manage to still have that hip/hop feel while venturing way out there in the world of R&B/Soul. But it's working, whatever the formula, the audiences are showing their pleasure with it and the group seems to gain a multitude of fans with every performance.
Don't be surprise what the group might do, they always have something in their show that is fresh and new, it might be their dress wear,a cover song, roses for the ladies, but there's one thing that is for sure, the group takes themselves very seriously. - Jus Brown

James Gilbert: Kansas City' James Gilbert a.k.a Jimmy G, came to the label by way of a Music Submission by the late Big Woody band. The demo was filed away in the our Music Library for nearly two years before it was selected for a new upcoming project that was planned to be release in September,2012. The singer,songwriter and multi-talented musician has already made a name for himself in the industry performing as an opening act and sideman for and with some of the top names in the business like,John Lee Hooker, B.B. King, Phil Guy, Little Milton Campbell, Little Johnny Taylor, A.C. Reed, David Dee, Tinsly Ellis, Charley Musselewhite, Little Hatch, Mary Moore, Lavalle White, Chick Willis, Vernon Garrett, Little Joe Blue, Blues Boy Willie, Buster Benton, Millie Jackson, Gary BB Coleman, Zapp, Bobby Bland,Koko Taylor, Johnny Taylor, Johnny Winter, Delbert McClinton, War, Doyle, Bramhall,Screaming Jay Hawkins, Tyrone Davis and Denise LaSalle. James can take his fans from one sphere to another with personal lyrics delivered in mellow baritone vocals reminiscence of Brook Benton,Jerry Butler  and Chuck Jackson to name a few. He transcends to this almost Super-star like Karma  when appear on  stage and we have heard it said many times that James sounds notoriously better Live than he do on his recordings. James will undoubtedly sell a lot records while building an huge dedicated fan base. -  Fred Walker