by Bram Teitelman | Feb 5, 2018 | Retail
One of the longest-running columns on this site is Metal by Numbers, a weekly look at the hard rock and metal that sold the most the prior week. Anyone that’s read it over the course of time has noticed, of course, that people are buying a lot less music. That...
by Bram Teitelman | Mar 27, 2015 | News, Retail, Updates
The headline says it all. We’ve known that the music industry worldwide decided that Friday would become a global release day, much the same way movies are released. Now we know when. According to Music Week, the change will take effect on July 10. According to...
by Bram Teitelman | Feb 26, 2015 | News, Retail
While this has been in the works for some time now, it looks like record labels around the world are finally adopting a global release for new music. Here in America, that means that instead of Tuesdays, music will be released on Fridays. According to Billboard, the...
by Seth Werkheiser | Feb 3, 2015 | News, Retail
According to an internal email, the mighty Guitar Center continutes to crumble before our very eyes. The leaked email, from new CEO Darrell Webb, announces a plan to “reduce corporate and field supervision staff.” The internal email, from GearGods:...
by Bram Teitelman | Jul 3, 2013 | Retail
Urban Outfitters has long been a place where hipsters that claim to not be hipsters can pick up the latest Atari logo T-shirt or book to teach you how to get drunk. And while it’s mainly a clothing store, they also sell vinyl. Metal Injection has found that...