As Silent As the Pope

Bobby Valentino is now off DTP the Ludacris record company who has a connection too the mighty Def Jam. Now Bobby Valentino has the indie route on the way. Have anybody heard about any of the cats who left the fold before? Nah, Chingy got back, but not really back. Shawanna where is she? Bobby I wish you all the best. Your allready had a shot so know its the time to take it to the top? Or the next gonna be flop. Time will tell!

Nokia, the big enterprise! That is well known for cell phones. Has for a long while tried to get the cell phones to steal the market from MP3 players world wide. I guess they even when T.I. had a Nokia phone in his music video for “Big Shit Poppin’” and another music video with a Nokia was Young Jeezy “I Luv It”. It’s not enough for the company to get their product placed in popular music videos. I guess the board isn’t happy with the small results out of it. Especially when they have used a lot of cash to make the cell phones made for calling, texting and listening to music. Until now, the consumer has earned on this. Since the competition is hard in the cell phone marked. The other companies have also got into this segment music phones. Like Sony Ericsson and LG for two examples. Nokia now is paying Universal Music Group (UMG), 35 dollars so every user of Nokia can get the catalogue of music down to their cell phone. That means that every artist that is in connection to UMG is getting a “free marketing place”. UMG is getting cash to show its artist to every user of Nokia. That will mean that Interscope, Geffen, Aftermath, G-Unit, Shady & so on. Now they get a great spot for marketing that competition doesn’t have. It’s alright, but this will be a run for monopoly or is it the best for the consumer. Until now, for my part, I haven’t bought a music phone until now. Ok, mine isn’t a Nokia and that ain’t my problem. That is bullshit. I have chosen a Sony Walkman phone. But doesn’t mind me which company Nokia and Universal Music are supporting to keep their engine going. The other thing that can become a problem is because Nokia is paying per cell phone with usage of music. They will have some of the money back because of the payment. So the consumer must by only from UMG in the future. That is a worst case scenario. I don’t know the future do you?

I guess we both are in the same boat. If your ass ain’t driving: UMG or Nokia. This is just what I’m thinking when I read the news about this. If an artist from this companies and under labels who connect them to UMG. This deal is guarantying UMG artist in a new way of proving quality of music to the world. Sell it and get more out of nothing. The Nokia user is getting an easy shop to buy the hottest track from UMG artists. Already it is companies selling music not owned by the music industry or the cell phone companies. This means in the long run that UMG has the control of the music listeners of Nokia is buying. Since the most artists selling to this kind of phones is ending up to be UMG artist. Even thou the consumer still are going to have an opportunity to get his song from his own computer to the cell phone. The consumer still going to do what is easy. So that means that the consumer of this kind of products who has a Nokia. Gets UMG artist easy and fair priced. Opposite to the rest of the artist, which if you want them you need to connect the old way to get their tracks on your phone. If you understand what I’ve tried to tell you, Nokia got into bed with UMG to get the music market. Sell it who is a good idea and very smart. UMG is big with a great deal of artist and products the consumer wants. But this is a start of a monopoly if it doesn’t open for music from other labels. I don’t hate, I’m just realistic about the situation. I got no problem with the old model of getting information on my phone. But I guess a lot of people going to use the easy way of getting the music. Downloading it from a shop on the phone and they are only getting UMG in the future.

I hope the other record companies start dealing with Samsung, LG or Sony Ericsson. So the market can open up and let the artist get a few new spots to market their music. Maybe, in the future the only place the sales for music is on the cell phone. Since the downloading is stealing so big spots of the market. Keep it trill folks, stay true, and see what the music companies do. Peace