{"id":6163,"date":"2018-11-12T09:50:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T08:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/?p=6163"},"modified":"2018-11-12T09:48:24","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T08:48:24","slug":"was-this-the-biggest-mistake-in-the-history-of-the-music-business-music-business-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/2018\/11\/12\/was-this-the-biggest-mistake-in-the-history-of-the-music-business-music-business-worldwide\/","title":{"rendered":"Was this the biggest mistake in the history of the music business? &#8211; Music Business Worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Middelhoff &#8211; what a loser that guy was for BMG. And it also shows, that there was (and still is) just no appreciation or vision for digital content and digital culture in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>What a shame.<\/p>\n<p>Read the article, despite it&#8217;s sarcastic tone which I think could have been kept lower, it&#8217;s a good read.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe hired a team, and we started acquiring properties for distribution, and just on the eve of watching our first release [hit the market], Thomas Middelhoff, who was then [head] of Bertelsmann, forced us to divest BMG Interactive \u2013 over my noisy objections,\u201d says Zelnick.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/was-this-the-biggest-mistake-in-the-history-of-the-music-business\/\">Was this the biggest mistake in the history of the music business? &#8211; Music Business Worldwide<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Middelhoff &#8211; what a loser that guy was for BMG. And it also shows, that there was (and still is) just no appreciation or vision for digital content and digital culture in Germany. What a shame. Read the article, despite it&#8217;s sarcastic tone which I think could have been kept lower, it&#8217;s a good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[176],"class_list":["post-6163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestream","tag-music-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6164,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6163\/revisions\/6164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}