SFX

Bobby Owsinski fasst auf Forbes anlässlich des Börsengangs von SFX Entertainment die kurze Zeitspanne zusammen, in der die Majorlabels dank des Medienwechsels zur CD zu Cash Cows wurden und so auf einmal auch Wall Street Interesse an der Musikbranche zeigte:

We’ve seen this scenario played out before in the entertainment business, most notably during a period that I call Music 1.5, or the era just before the introduction of online music. As I outlined in my book Music 3.0: A Survival Guide To Making Music In The Internet Age, it was during this period that the CD was introduced and record labels became cash cows when consumers rushed out to replace their personal libraries with the new and more expensive digital version of the music they already owned. This meant that CDs were flying off the shelves with minimal production or marketing expenses, so the profit margin was unusually wide.