Lefsetz: Facts
1. You don’t need to be good-looking to make it in music. The MTV era is over, kaput, history. Now it’s about the track. Who...
Lefsetz: The Tiers
STADIUM ACTS Are not bitching about what everybody else is. Money is not their issue. Everybody wants to be in business with them. The...
Lefsetz’ Scorecard
MAJOR LABELS More powerful than at any time since Napster. Case in point, Sam Smith. One has to credit Capitol with a phenomenal...
Lefsetz’s Business Rules
1. You’ve got to get along. If you don’t have good people skills, you’ll never succeed, even if you run your own...
Lefsetz: 36 Things We’ve Learned
1. Nobody wants old people’s albums. Despite a plethora of press, Elton and McCartney’s and Elvis Costello’s album with...
Lefsetz on Radio
1. The major music business, the “new music” business, is built upon radio, it depends upon it. 2. There’s a fiction...
Top Ten Issues in the Music Industry
Problems: 1. Filter People don’t know what to listen to. You can’t trust the radio, you can only trust your friends, and...
Bob Lefsetz’ History Lessons
SONY Succeeded with radical breakthroughs. Failed with incremental improvements. Shed your past if you want to succeed in the future. You...