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JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES MEETS THE BEATLES

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WRAPPING UP 2023

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DATA: 2023 TOTAL MUSIC SALES AND STREAMS

January 11, 2024 Jake Brown Leave a comment

The music industry likes to talk about consumption, which is another word for
tuberculosis, and it makes all real music lovers gag. They talk about
consumption because they don’t want to talk about sales because sales are down
from their pre-Napster heyday. Consumption is up though. So yay.

For real though, it’s a good thing that streaming has allowed people to listen
to more music. Who could argue with that? (I mean, besides any artists who are
unfortunate enough not to own their own masters…which is most of them.) But for
fans, this is a great time to be alive. The celestial jukebox is real. And if
you want something weird that’s not available on Spotify or Apple Music, there’s
a good chance you will be able to find it on YouTube. Go nuts.

Just don’t try to convince us that streaming “love is embarrassing” 1,250 times
is the same as listening to GUTS. You didn’t “consume” the album. So keep that
in mind when you hear that total U.S. album consumption increased by 12.6% in
2023. Did it really? Song “consumption” may have increased but who knows how
many people are actually listening to albums? There’s no way of measuring that.

But overall things do seem to be getting better for the music biz. Actual album
sales rose a little bit. Vinyl is up. Even our beloved old compact disc did
better this year. And of course streaming is way up. 1.453 trillion songs were
streamed in 2023. That’s a lot of zeroes! 1,453,000,000,000 songs.

And a good chunk of those songs were recorded by Taylor Swift. No joke, Luminate
reports that “1 in every 78 audio streams was a Taylor Swift song in the U.S.
this year.” And Billboard points out that her collected catalog sold 6.172
million copies (3.484 million of that on vinyl!), accounting for “6% of all
album sales last year across all albums by all artists.” She sold 1.014 million
copies of 1989 (Taylor’s Version) on vinyl. It blows my mind that she even
pressed a million records, let alone sold them all. It’s staggering.



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Total Album Sales (physical + digital albums)

2023: 105.32 million
2022: 100.09 million
2021: 109.0 million
2020: 102.4 million
2019: 112.75 million
2018: 141 million
2017: 169.15 million
2016: 205.5 million
2015: 241.39 million
2014: 257.02 million
2013: 289.41 million
2012: 315.96 million
2011: 330.57 million
2010: 326.15 million
2009: 373.9 million
2008: 428.4 million
2007: 500.5 million
2006: 588.2 million
2005: 618.9 million
2004: 666.7 million
2003: 667.9 million
2002: 693.1 million
2001: 762.8 million
2000: 785 million
1999: 754.8 million
1998: 712.5 million
1997: 651.8 million
1996: 616.6 million
1995: 616.4 million (I’ve heard the figure is 616,957,000)
1994: 614.7 million (I’ve heard the figure is 615,266,000)
1993: ~573 million (1994 was 7.4% increase over 1993)

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ELVIS LIVE(S)

January 8, 2024 Stephen Macaulay Leave a comment

In 2023 Taylor Swift set a record for being at the top of the Billboard album
chart, the Billboard 200, more frequently than any other individual: 68 weeks.
Swift has been releasing albums since 2006, when her self-titled disc dropped.
Her first album at the top was her second, Fearless (2008), which racked up 11
weeks there, or 16% of her total run (so far; she’s probably added to her
dominance by the time you read this).

Swift took the top spot from Elvis, who, with 67 weeks, is the second solo
artist on the list.

(Both have a ways to go to be at the overall top of the Billboard 200 cumulative
list: the Beatles have marked 132 weeks.)

Elvis’ Billboard 200 numbers are for 10 albums released between 1956 and 2002,
with that last date being pretty damn good for a guy who died in 1977, or 12
years before Taylor Swift was born.

In Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049, if we use the Syd Field three-act
structure from his Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting (1979), the
Confrontation occurs in a Las Vegas that resembles the Valley of the Kings in
Egypt. A dirty bomb apparently went off in Vegas, although it seems as though it
was a neutron bomb, given that with the exception of the massive statues that
are being reclaimed by the desert, the casino hotels still stand, which gives
Rick Deckard, portrayed by Harrison Ford, a place to live, hidden away from the
Wallace Corporation. (Apparently he’s been there since the time of the first
Blade Runner film, which is set in. . . 2019.)

As Ryan Gosling’s K, in 2049, wanders through the casino that houses Deckard, he
goes into a theater, where a glitchy Vegas-era holographic Elvis performs
“Suspicious Minds” and “Can’t Help Falling in Love,” about which Deckard, after
engaging in a fist fight with K, says, “I like this song.” Elvis first released
the song, which is based on a melody from a French composition of 1784 (“Plaisir
d’amour”), in 1961. Deckard is in his 30s in the first film, which means he
would have been born in 1989 at the latest or 1980 at the earliest: either way
he was born after the 1969 residency at the International that is associated
with Elvis and that rhinestone-decorated white jumpsuit.

Evidently, Elvis continued to have resonance maybe in the future (it is not
disclosed when Sin City became Empty City, so it based on the setting of the
first film in 2019, it could have been anytime between then and 2040, based on
the idea that the ruin-like nature would have taken at least nine years to be as
manifest as it is). Maybe that future is. . .2024.

Continue reading Elvis Live(s) →

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JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES MEETS THE BEATLES

January 1, 2024 Stephen Macaulay Leave a comment

The arts, of which music, of course, is a big part, plays a massive role in the
economy of the U.K., which consultancy McKinsey describes as “a cultural
powerhouse—often punching above its weight.” Small, but powerful. (In terms of
size, the U.K. is approximately as big as Oregon.)

Looked at in terms of the gross value added to the overall economy in 2022, the
arts sector, McKinsey found, contributed £49 billion, which doesn’t mean a whole
lot until it is put into a context like this: that’s 50% larger than what the
telecommunications industry puts into the coffers.

There are impressive metrics, like the U.K. having the highest number of Nobel
laureates in Literature between 2000 and 2023 and its actors coming in second in
the number of Academy Awards received.

But then there’s one that seems completely understandable if still eye-widening:
The U.K. is one of three net exporters of music in the world.

It’s not that every country doesn’t export music; even the smallest country in
the world, Vatican City, does.

It’s just that music in the U.K. has a visibly consequential effect on the
economy of the kingdom. (Thank you, Beatles, for starting that phenomenon.) 
According to UK Music’s “This Is Music 2023” report, U.K. music exports
generated a cool £4 billion in 2022. And looked at overall, music’s contribution
to the U.K. economy last year was £6.7 billion, a non-trivial chunk of the
aforementioned £49 billion.

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WRAPPING UP 2023

December 29, 2023 Jake Brown Leave a comment

This is the year the pandemic officially ended when the WHO declared the global
health emergency to be over in May. I had managed to avoid infection until this
March when I got it exactly six months after my updated booster. It sucked. I
survived. So it goes. 2023 was the year we realized we’ll probably all end up
catching covid if we ever leave the house. Pretty much everybody I know has had
it, even my friends who are still super careful and wearing masks to the grocery
store and avoiding indoor concerts altogether. It’s a bummer.

The virus seems to have warped our sense of time. Events might have happened
five months ago or five years ago and you can never really remember which off
the top of your head. Can you believe that the Chinese spy balloon thing
happened in 2023? It did. Weird, right?

Lots of other stuff happened this year, believe it or not, such as Finland
joining NATO and Donald fucking Trump getting criminally indicted multiple
times. King Charles was crowned. Canadian wildfire smoke messed up our skies all
summer. A homemade submarine imploded near the wreckage of the Titanic. Maui
burned down. Taylor Swift got people interested in football. Taylor Swift got
people interested in life. The Detroit Lions won games. Ukraine held on. Gaza,
not so much. Elon Musk killed Twitter. That was all this year. Hope you were
wearing a seatbelt. It’s crazy out there.

As always, lots of great music came out. Several of my longtime faves released
solid new albums: Robbie Fulks, the Hives, the Handsome Family, Mustard Plug,
Wilco, the Mountain Goats. Plus, lots of good new stuff by youngsters:
boygenius, Gracie Abrams, Olivia Rodrigo. Some surprising remixes, reissues and
posthumous releases: Replacements, Ben Kweller, Sparklehorse. And then there was
Playing for the Man at the Door: Field Recordings from the Collection of Mack
McCormick, 1958–1971, full of mindblowing artifacts, sort of like a sequel to
Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music except instead of just being
curated and compiled by one crazy guy, this collection was all recorded by one
crazy guy. If you’re unfamiliar with McCormick, you won’t regret looking into
him. Fascinating story.

I’m excited for 2024. In regards to music anyway. Not excited for another
election cycle, which regardless of the outcome is guaranteed to be another
shitshow. Who knows if we’ll survive it? But hey, I’m trying to be hopeful…and
maybe even optimistic. I’m trying.

Continue reading Wrapping Up 2023 →

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SEARCH ME: WHAT DID PEOPLE LOOK FOR IN ’23?

December 25, 2023 Stephen Macaulay Leave a comment

Whatever the topic—from changing a light switch to trying to determine what else
you’ve seen that actress in—the now-default move is to “Google it.” This may be
a bit of the “Kleenex” phenomenon, where the brand name stands for an entire
class (i.e., you may be blowing your nose with a generic product, but in order
to do so you ask someone to give you a “Kleenex.”) Google has become the default
search engine, and it must be said that it evidently has earned that given that
according to Wikipedia there are 81 search engines that it has identified—from
123people to Yooz—that are now things someone might search for, not search with.

Google puts out an annual aggregation of its top searches for a given year,
globally and for specific countries. The categories are wide-ranging, from News
to Games, from Athletes to Recipes.

And given the apparent interest (i.e., Google “knows” what things garner a
sufficient number of searches such that it is worth codifying), Music and
subcategories are on the “Year in Search.”

And what people searched for in 2023 may be more revealing than the “Billboard
Top 100” or the Spotify top artists and songs (the top artist for ’23, no
surprise, is Taylor Swift, whose music garnered 26.1 billion global streams
between January 1 and November 29; the top global song may be a bit more
unpredicted: “Flowers” by Miley Cyrus, which had more than 1.6 billion streams).

Here’s a look at who and what people wanted to learn more about via Google in
2023.

Continue reading Search Me: What Did People Look for in ’23? →

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WORLDS COLLIDE: LIAM GALLAGHER AND JOHN SQUIRE TEAM UP

December 21, 2023 Derek Phillips Leave a comment

If you‘ve watched any documentaries on the nascent punk scene in England in the
70s you have heard the story of how it seems every band that mattered had its
start at one event: Sex Pistols’ appearance at the Lesser Free Trade Hall in
Manchester, England, on June 4, 1976. Accounts vary, of course because that’s
how legends are, but it’s generally agreed that around 40 people were at this
event. And despite a relatively small showing, the number of bands formed from
this one event is astonishing. They include Joy Division, The Smiths and The
Fall, all who had members in attendance at the show. It was a watershed moment
for indie and punk music and a watershed moment for Manchester in particular.

Fast forward 20-odd years and you have another watershed moment with The Stone
Roses at Spike Island, an event that looms large in brit pop history and can
also be pinned as the moment Oasis formed as an idea. 

> “Maybe it was the drugs, but I think it was the music as well. I remember
> seeing them at Blackpool, Spike Island, and it was just… it’s youth, innit –
> you look back and nothing will ever compare to it: you’re young, you’ve got no
> kids, if you’ve got a job, who gives a fuck? You’ve got no bills to pay,
> you’re going back home to your mam, she’s cooking you breakfast, fucking life
> is free and easy, you know what I mean? And when you hear it, you go back to
> them times.” 

This is what Liam Gallagher said when serving as editor of the first edition of
NME Gold– a 100-page selection of exclusive interviews and features. Noel
Gallagher was there too and has gone as far as describing the Stone Roses at
Spike Island as “the blueprint” for Oasis. It was…a moment.

And now it’s come full circle with Liam Gallagher and The Stone Roses guitarist
John Squire announcing a new album, and a single out next month. Gallagher in
particular has been teasing this partnership for months in tweets and
interviews, but it seems we’re finally Here Now.

Supergroups are a tricky thing. Great tastes don’t always taste great together,
but I’m excited to hear it and am happy to just to see John Squire putting out
new music. 

The first single, “Just Another Rainbow,” will be released on Jan. 5 and a 7?
can be pre-ordered via their website. 

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NEW J MASCIS: SET ME DOWN

December 21, 2023 Jake Brown Leave a comment

Video: J Mascis – “Set Me Down”



Directed by Callum Scott-Dyson. From What Do We Do Now, out February 2 on Sub
Pop.

Oh wow new J Mascis solo music! This is the second single off his upcoming
album. We somehow missed the first one despite the fact that its video features
a bunch of J’s famous friends including Fred Armisen and David Cross. This new
video doesn’t have any celebrities in it but it does have an animated rodent who
goes on a bunch of adventures.

Unlike previous Mascis solo stuff, this new set features drums and electric lead
guitar. Which is fun. Still mellower than Dinosaur Jr material though.

Mascis says, “When I’m writing for the band. I’m always trying to think of doing
things Lou and Murph would fit into. For myself, I’m thinking more about what I
can do with just an acoustic guitar, even for the leads. Of course, this time, I
added full drums and electric leads, although the rhythm parts are still all
acoustic. Usually, I try to do the solo stuff more simply so I can play it by
myself, but I really wanted to add the drums. Once that started, everything else
just fell into place. So it ended up sounding a lot more like a band record. I
dunno why I did that exactly, but it’s just what happened.”

Glad it happened. I like the all acoustic stuff but there’s nothing quite like a
Mascis electric guitar solo.

J Mascis: web, bandcamp, amazon, apple, spotify, wiki.

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NEW LAURA JANE GRACE: CUFFING SEASON

December 20, 2023 Jake Brown Leave a comment

Video: Laura Jane Grace – “Cuffing Season”



Directed by Margherita Ballarin. From Hole In My Head, out February 16 on
Polyvinyl.

I’m a middle-aged married man so I had never heard of cuffing season until this
song but apparently it refers to the chilly months when you want to hook up with
somebody and stay indoors. Which makes sense I suppose. God damn, it must be
tough to be a single person dealing with the complexities of dating today.
Wouldn’t wish it on my enemies. Good luck to all you single people out there!

And one day I’ll feel good again,
until then I’ll just white knuckle it
If you’re not afraid to die why don’t you fucking prove it?

Grace says, “I think as you get older and go through life’s hurts and
heartbreaks, it gets harder and harder to let yourself be open and vulnerable.
But when you do, it can be so worth it even if you just end up hurt and
heartbroken again. In the end, I don’t think you regret those kinds of losses. I
think you regret not trying.”

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TIME, TIME, TIME

December 18, 2023 Stephen Macaulay Leave a comment

There are things that we take for granted, which is reasonable given that there
are a whole lot of other things that we have to think about, so these things on
the mental wallpaper are simply assumed to be (when the decoration is first
applied it draws attention, but soon it simply blends into the background).

Take, for example, the calendar.

Prior to the period when Quintus Fulvius Nobilior was running things in Rome—153
BCE—the calendar had ten months, not 12.

The last month of the year, then as now, was December. And the month got that
name from Latin, decem, or ten.

But the Roman senate, perhaps being more scientifically capable and
knowledgeable than those who currently have offices in the U.S. Capitol, decided
that it would be better to have a calendar that was more aligned with what was
happening in the heavens, as it were: the lunar cycle—the time it takes the Moon
to go through all of its phases (i.e., from new to new)—lasts 29.5 days. And a
solar year, the time it takes the Earth to make a revolution around the Sun is
365.242 days. So going back to the lunar cycle and correlating it with the solar
year, there’s 29.5 x 12 = 365.25 days.

Thus, the senators deciding that the calendar would be 12 months, with the
addition of January and February. December stayed at the end of the calendar.
(And every four years February gets an extra day in order to keep the calendar
straight.)

Because December is the final month, it is understandable that it is a place
from which what had occurred during the previous 11 months is considered.

Like the people who died during the year.

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NEW LIBERTINES: NIGHT OF THE HUNTER

December 15, 2023 Jake Brown Leave a comment

Video: The Libertines – “Night Of The Hunter”



Directed by Alexander Brown. From All Quiet on the Eastern Esplanade, out March
8.

The first single from the upcoming Libs album was a stomper from Carlos. This
new one’s a sweeping orchestral ballad from Pete.

I’m just calling to tell you baby
They’ll be taking me away for a while
Well don’t blame me, it’s the world that made me.

Pete says, “The song’s about not staying ahead of the law. This fella doesn’t
really know why his mate’s dead, but he’s got a feeling his mate had it coming
to him. He fucked with the wrong people, and he stole something he shouldn’t
have, and he got stabbed. So, he’s angry and hurt and he has to go and get
revenge, so he does and that’s it for him, basically. Once he has stabbed the
lad who stabbed his mate, that’s it for him. He lashed out in revenge and he
knows they’re coming to get him and he’s not even going to try and run because
he knows he’ll just be running forever.”

Carl adds, “I started writing a riff and it ended up sounding a bit like Swan
Lake, and everyone went, ‘Yeah!’ Then we got Peter’s theremin player in which
took about a day to get in tune, then he played that sequence and it worked
beautifully.”

Funny that it took so long to tune the theremin considering the pitch depends on
the position of the player’s hand in comparison to the antenna… But you know.
Band guys always have excuses for being late.

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What a band!

Faces: Too Much Woman For A Henpecked Man, 1970.

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Just saw that Larry Collins passed away. One of the wildest.
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Come On, Marianne?! Check out a very cool alternate version of Songs of Leonard
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