Eamonn Forde

The Great Rock N(FT) Roll Swindle

Eamonn Forde raises some concerns over a potential music biz bubble – in which the non-fungible get filthy and furious…

Music streaming has a ‘tsundoku’ problem

London-based music industry journalist Eamonn Forde on the future of music streaming's subscription model

Myth-understandings: what price truth in musical memoirs?

Eamonn Forde explores mythology in music biopics and documentaries

Why music companies should stop using vague stats

Eamonn Forde explores the rise of 'vaguestats' in the music business

Shy of retiring: when artists really need to be told to stop making albums

The latest column from long-time music industry journalist, Eamonn Forde

None louder: hello improved audio upsell, please meet consumer indifference

Long-time music industry journalist Eamonn Forde explores the announcement, and delayed launch, of Spotify HiFi...

Catch ’22: A Complete* List Of Absolutely Everything The Music Business Needs To Fix Or Get Rid Of In 2022 (*Almost)

Eamonn Forde suggests 22 new year's resolutions for the music business...

Wax on, wax off: unblocking the great vinyl logjam

Columnist Eamonn Forde's 12-point checklist to fix the vinyl backlog

Box clutter: why special edition albums need to forget the kitchen sink drama

Columnist Eamonn Forde delves into the world of anniversary boxsets...

The Ubiquity Paradox: do far more of this but also do a lot less of that

This column comes from Eamonn Forde, a long-time music industry journalist and the author of The Final Days of EMI: Selling the Pig, and Leaving The Building: The Lucrative Afterlife of Music Estates

The Lucrative Afterlife of Music Estates: ‘A complex balancing act between the past and the future.’

An extract from Eamonn Forde's excellent (and very timely) new book, Leaving The Building: The Lucrative Afterlife of Music Estates, out now, via Omnibus Press

Concerts have been pummelled by the pandemic. These should be the live music industry’s golden rules for the next year.

Columnist and author Eamonn Forde sets out his manifesto for post-lockdown concerts

My Sweet Lorde: Are Plagiarism Cases Getting… Gentler?

Eamonn Forde notes that more recent accusations of copycatting in music have ended cordially