The unit of the whole business is three hours in a room with a clock running.
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What a Twenty-Foot Room Does to a Record
The room as instrument, the address as sound
The room is not the background. It is one of the instruments.
Van Gelder's vaulted ceiling at Englewood Cliffs, the sloped cinema floor at Stax, the concrete basement at 2120 South Michigan Avenue: three rooms that decided what three catalogues sounded like.
67%
of global recorded-music revenue came from streaming in IFPI’s report for 2023 — which is why a label’s oldest recordings are now its most valuable ones.
IFPI Global Music Report 2023
−11%US recorded-music revenue between 1978 and 1979, from roughly $4.1bn to $3.7bn on RIAA shipment figures
3major labels since EMI was broken up in 2012: Universal, Sony and Warner
2022the year RIAA figures put vinyl revenue above CD revenue, for the first time since 1987
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