My Interview with Josh and Zane from AmieStreet

Today I had the great pleasure of chatting with Josh and Zane, two of the guys behind AmieStreet, a really cool music sales and discovery site that was recently in the news thanks to being the only place selling Ashley Alexandra Dupre’s red hot single.

In this interview we discuss the idea behind AmieStreet’s unique pricing scheme, the effect of the Dupre-bump (pun intended, sorry), Billy Bragg’s OpEd, the proposed ISP tax and so much more.

Interview with Josh and Zane from AmieStreet

My Only Spitzer Scandal Post

I honestly didn’t see how the current Spitzer brewhaha would ever provide grist for my particular mill, but it is yet another sign that this is truly the digital age that I have, in fact, found crossover.

Many outlets are reporting on the now publicly known identity of Spitzer’s hooker, one Ashley Alexandra Dupree and her dreams of music stardom.

Ashley’s single is on AimeStreet, a music distribution site I have discussed here on this blog.  Their pricing is based on a tracks popularity, so, according to Silicon Valley Insider,  ”Ashley uploaded her first song onto Amie Street on Nov. 8, 2007. Up until yesterday afternoon, you could snag it for 7 cents. Today a download of “What We Want” will cost you 98 cents.”

They’ve got some more interesting stats as well that show seem to indicate she is outselling all the “name” artists on the site by a wide margin.  She has also had her head together enough to upload a second single to the site today and it, to, is already up to the maximum price of 98 cents.

This is the power of the internet and self-distribution.  A traditional label would never have been able to cash in on this sort of moment but and individual connected to the internet can literally become a platinum-selling artists in the same week she brings down a governor.

Awesome.