Suede's Revenue

From an Information Is Beautiful statistics model calculate how much Suede make:

(note the image is updated lively and so will change from the figures below)

There is obviously a huge difference between signed and unsigned artists, Suede belonging to the former, first at pseudo-indie label Nude Records and now under major label Warner Music UK, but just under distribution, they still see themselves as indie rock artists aesthetically (which can be seen especially with the themes of their most recent album)

GOOGLEPLAY

You need 172,206 plays per month

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SPOTIFY

You need just over 1 million plays per month

This is Suede's most popular track by far, which has 16 million streams (its popularity during the Britpop era, I for instance heard it once being played in a pub along with other well-known tracks by a 21-year-old bartender, showing it is still known to some younger music listeners)...

This means this track pays them the average U

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YOUTUBE

You need over 4 million plays

The Suede YouTube Channel has seen a huge proliferation of videos, including Audio Only videos, Live Performances and for their most recent album "Track by Track" videos.

THE CALCULATOR

Suede's biggest hit comes up as bringing 64,000 dollars

However, that is only due to it being to popular recognition before.

They rely on that and their original audience buying vinyl, merchandise

Plus, Brett Anderson gets even more revenue due to his solo catalogue and recently publishing a memoir up the point of Suede's formation and success.

For example, Suede's newest album, the most-streamed song, Outsiders, has in the course of just over two years won them this amount:

David Bowie, an artist of much higher statue:

Rihanna, with her single being one of the most popular songs of the year:

As one can see, it is never older songs that are top on streaming, it will always be the last four to five years in competition with each other. So Chris Anderson's Long Tail theory and Simon Reynolds's theory of music audiences being more and more does not apply to revenue on a mass, global scale. This could also be evident of how older audiences still use vinyl and CD much more, and how in the course of the next 30-40 years that could potentially die out:

Wiki

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TECHS iPhone: Google Calendar TBC

I hope this will help me much more with planning

*Insert screenshots of downloading and setting up app*

EXAM Q1a - Research + Planning

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REFLECTION ON AS COURSEWORK

A lot my research wasn't relevant at first to my coursework, and/or I wasn't able to apply it

Planning/Structuring is one my weaknesses.

HOPES

• Going a use Google Calendar to plan, use DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY
• My research will be much more diverse this year as will spread across various media (cross-media convergence)
• Also hope to me much more engaging with AUDIENCE as early as possible, do. questionnaire starting off what do they expect from a music video

USEFUL LINKS:

• ProdEval Advice, the rest are from the same blog
• Characteristics of a Music Video; (bite-sized chunks of theory!)
• Web 2.0 + Fan-made vids: Applying YOUR work; (any Q1a answer should cite web 2.0)
• CREATIVITY: Tyranny of Genre; (snippet: 'The phrase "tyranny of genre" comes from genre theorist Richard Coe, who wrote that "the 'tyranny of genre' is normally taken to signify how generic structures constrain individual creativity"')
• Creativity sans la femme + Bechdel Test; feminist Bechdel flags up the tawdry way women are used in film, but also consider the wider lack of women in prominent positions: were you influenced by any female directors, for example, of film/video? Feminism is a theory you should address for this topic. To what extent are the conventions you've used sourced from male practitioners? Sexist? Or does post-feminist thinking end such debates?
• Creativity and R+P: Monsters; here's an $800k debut feature by a director who struggled to get financing because he didn't have a full script - like Loach. Leigh etc Gareth Edwards wanted to organically develop his script with his cast during the shoot. Indeed, he hired non-actors as he travelled (entire crew in ONE car!) on location...
• Micro-budget films +DCRUP; 
• Cultural Imperialism; this was tied to a previous exam topic but can still be used to explore how Britishness is subsumed by dominant American tropes - or even how S.Eng rep'ns overwhelmingly dominate UK media output; are your text/s normative or perhaps counter-hegemonic (challenging these normative representations, challenging whats seen as common sense and above questioning?). What proportion of the texts you examined were specifically British ... or even non-London-based for that matter?
• The 'Britishness' of your work; rom-com eg but can be applied across the board. As above, how British-based was your research?. This maybe is not as relevant for CIE but is highly ironic with Suede's Britpop image, but also this is still a British exam.
• Coens on using Final Cut for Oscar-nommed True Grit; 
• Researching recent genre egs + presenting this in vid;
• Box Office(Mojo) by Genre; this eg is for slasher but you can click through for others too. Persistently successful: tease out the factors behind this.
• http://www.slideshare.net/classof09/choosing-audience: eg of prior aud research

And so it begins again!

TBC: Turn this into a podcast

Hello, welcome to my blog, which holds the purpose of detailing the research + planning, production and evaluation process of my A2 Media coursework. 

My task is to create a music promo package, with the main task of creating a music video, accompanied by two ancillary texts/paratexts, a digipak cover for the album and a website for the artist/band.

My favourite musician is David Bowie, other huge interests include Halsey, Kendrick Lamar and Queen, and I'm developing a huge passion for Depeche Mode.

I don't want to do a stereotypical romance narrative for my video and conform to the conventions of modern mainstream chart-hit music.

I am looking forward to:

• Expanding my cinematography, mise-en-scène & editing skills
• Expanding my knowledge on media theory, also for preparation in the fields of media language, audience, genre, narrative and representation
• Unlike Evie I haven't done the IGCSE, so I have no experience in print or web work, I am looking forward to working with Photoshop and Wix

THINGS TO IMPROVE

• Use of call sheets and storyboards without fail
• Don't rely on actors to bring costumes or props (near close shave of not making sure Hannah took the costume bag with her when changing from costume)
• Debrief the actors better so that there aren't any misunderstandings (like Hannah being uncomfortable with the footage being shown in the auditorium) 
• Plan more and have consistency for my blog (don't leave multiple posts unfinished)
• I intend to use the app Google Calendar to follow this through 

THE FINAL CUT OF MY AS COURSEWORK

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