I've been consider which ave for the MusicCapitalist to take next, book, podcast tv show and we'll its Podcast.
INTRO Hola, this is Nelson Jacobsen here -- and I’m the blogger behind MusicCapitalist.com and now this Podcast by the name name. We’re going to get into the MusicBiz aspect of music from my position on the Independent Distribution front lines. Music Capitalist will be talking about and with Indie Musician as well as dooers and thinkers that love to talk about music.
I've been working on the 1st interview and will be waiting for Monday's Soundscan numbers so that we'll have the industry most important data of music. Who's @BuyingThis and how. Digital v Physical. Hopefully, the PODCast will be up Monday night or Tuesday.
I wanted to thank all of the people that have read this and given me feed back in person or online and give you a chance to suggest a topic.
Renew the Music ACT and start supporting US Made Music.
What is the Music ACT
US MUSIC Act.
“Our small, independent music labels are finding it increasingly difficult to sell their goods in the global marketplace,” said Nadler. “This bill would help promote U. S. exports in an extremely competitive industry whose talents cannot be outsourced. Helping these businesses access foreign markets is also an important part of President Obama’s goal to double U. S. exports in five years – an effort in which New York, home to many independent music labels and artists, continues to take the lead.”
To learn more about the Music ACT please visit MUSICACT.ORG What we need to do is reauthorize it till 2021
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13 merce $1,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2013
14 through 2017 to carry out this section.
So here's the issue.
The majority of the US Population while listening to country, popular artists from the USA don't understand that none of them are exported out of the USA by the Major Distributors (AMPED, BMG, EONE, SONY, UNI, WEA) or their fake indie companies, This will be my next blog and for more on why TheMajorsSuck.com visit that link it's a blog that further explains this issue. Here is the data and it's taken from official USA data
United States Exports By CategoryThis page displays a table with United States Exports By Category in U.S. dollars, according to the United Nations COMTRADE database on international trade.
There is nothing there,CLICK TO SEE about Trade Catagory 334612 or 336614. Yet, last week the majority of the music sold in the USA was physical music and it's a growing industry with mergers and expansions happening weekly in Entertainment.
I'm not going, by the look of it, be able to say this often, however; President Trump has rightly called on all American to #BuyAmericanHireAmerican and that includes US Made Music. To do that we need the MUSIC ACT to be renewed till at least 2012. There can be not American reason to not invest in our own music. It's an export class 334612 and finding out information about something that used to be our largest export by 2X is now nearly impossible.
#ReNewMusicACT
So let's renew the act for another four years, put the money into a Commerce Department program that artists, bands, and labels making Made in America Music can access it, and use to develop, manufacture and export one of the US's greatest cultural and economic assets US Made Music
In light of the Trump Administrations abandonment of Art, Culture, and Humanities, as reported by CNN. Art, Humanities and Music advocates need to let Congress know the value of The National Endowments of Arts and Humanities and that we should be doubling their budgets not eliminating them. It's the only rational and patriotic direction we as a nation need to embrace since it's the only one we've not tried. #DDoAH
Congress [Local Leaders too, from city mayors, county executives and governors should know that arts, culture, and humanities are the foundation of America. However, in this post I'm sticking to the arts side since refusing to fund the humanities in the richest nation ever to be on this earth is American Suicide. It's it?
Let's talk, about Business, Exports, and IP across a number of trade categories, the citizenry, and communities. Music Alone raised the GDP of the USA nearly 4 % and still today we're ENTERTAINERTING OUR ECONOMY TO DEATH. Think about it. We have some of the biggest artists across all mediums and our culture is in demand, people want to be like Mike or the Misfits.
However in the US we have an issue on not understanding the value of art and culture and both role in how the world see the USA. Every dance, painting, song is an expression of US values from the individuals or bands perspective as well as an export and IP with Art & Music is our future and it's also better to send art than bombs.
Really, the USA can only go up at this point since England is selling most of that to the USA- Thanks Obama. Don't read that. However, Yikes! its now Trump'smps hands. While I've been waiting to see what he was going to do. Since, I was pleased that the Import-Export Bank was saved; Since I've posted so many times about exporting US Made Music it's like a broke record.
Now, that Trump is proposing to eliminate the arts and humanities cut everything of art and cultural value; And, a undermine the growing trend of exporting IP out of the USA I've got to do more than just say something. This blog is a start. read to the end for my personal offer to help artists.
Everyone that cares about the Arts, Humanities, and Music needs to go to public official's offices and visit them in Washington, DC. Of course using social media with hashtags like #ArtWorks #SaveNEA or other that tag to your representative's social media will make for a third wave of activism.
I want to let David Grasso, DC Council Member proposed during this year's Arts Advocacy Day.
Double down on the Arts.
Speaking of NEA and Motivation from their surprise findings of three new NEA reports here are key stakeholder reasons from being engaged in the arts, humanities, and music
Motivations include:
Top reasons Americans attend the arts (performances and exhibits) include socializing with friends or family members (73 percent); learning new things (64 percent); and supporting the community (51 percent).
Despite similar household incomes and education, people who call themselves middle-class were more likely to attend the arts than those who identified themselves as working class. Thwarted interest, rather than lack of interest, may be the cause for lower attendance rates among some audiences.
Life stages—pursuing higher education, marriage, child-rearing, and retirement—are often more predictive than age alone, as a factor in attending the arts. For example, parents with young children under age six more often cited socializing with family or friends, learning new things and celebrating cultural heritage when they attended performances accompanied by their children.
What's my motivation for this? I'm an advocate for US MADE MUSIC. I also run a public traded company thats' Artistsbandslabelsowned. Moreover; The NEA has found though it research and information that is publically available online here, Which I urge anyone to look into since it's very expensive and makes the case for artist better than I'm going to do in this blog.
FYI, I will personally meet with you and your representative in Washington, DC to help you meet with Congressional and Senatoral public servents. Follow me on @SonofNels
When Bella Nae, Big Heff and I had best meeting EVER. And I urge Artists, Bands Groups, Playing DC to Visit Representives Offices and invite them and staff to your DC show.
UPDATED: Current Music Sales and right now Physical or US Made Music is 59%
Now that the Obama Administration has come to an end I wanted to do a bit of a rap-up post about his time as of running the economy and being the commander in chief and top spokesperson for US Made Music and figured that just before the April 4th Trade Data is released we can catch everyone up on where US Made Music stands in the business world and how Obama's 8 years in office impacted the entertainment in the US; Specifically, Prerecorded Compact Disc (Except Software), Tape, and Record Reproducing: which is category 334612.
And, it's easy to see that imports are larger than Exports.
Just so we're all on the same page: 334612 is the same "rock and roll" that is coming into the US as an Import and not being exported. Moreover, this category used to be an industry leading sector driving the US economy and the dissemination of US culture abroad. Remember the phrase Cultural Diplomacy, I've been the one asking Obama's Secretary of Commerce, numerous Under Secretary's plus leading figures at the State Departhemet.
I've taken the newest trade date for NAICS334612 and posted it as a Google Sheet for anyone to take a look without having to jump through all the hoops and dig through all the data. HERE
If we don't export our music how's the US doing this Cultural Diplomacy?
Worst of all is the Obama Administration knew that we needed to do something about spurring US Made Music that it helped to pass the Music Act in 2012 that set aside money in the Commerce Department to -- Develop, Manufacture, and export it and I've never met someone that even knew it existed or that it's expiring.
Moreover! How is it possible, I love to ask, that we have some of the biggest recording artists in the world; Yet, the USA is negative in it's export of music made in the USA? Want to Learn more about how we got here and what to do by the above link or visit TheMajorsSuck.com and the question I have to ask is why is this subject so under reported and hard to find data about something as important as US Made Music?
Prerecorded Compact Disc (Except Software), Tape, and Record Reproducing: 2002
As Micheal E. Porter eloquently pointed out in “The Competitive Advantage of Nations,” that a nation's prosperity is created and not inherited, states must recognize that a nation's competitiveness depends on the capacity of its industries to innovate and upgrade.’
We have failed to heed these words and worse is that -- we are entertaining our economy to death! Nelson Jacobsen, USMADEMUSIC.ORG
Thanking Lil Flip, for his show during SXSW
Ps Why we need the US Music Act is the next blog and I'll wait for the April Trade Data.
