transmitCHINA.TALKS 2011 speaker:
// Eric Garland - CEO, BigChampagne (General Co-Facilitator)
Eric Garland is the founder and CEO of BigChampagne Media Measurement, a new kind of music metrics company charting the new business of music.
BigChampagne's Ultimate Chart is the first and only measure of all of the ways in which music is popular, everywhere. Partners and sources for the Ultimate Chart include retailers, broadcasters, subscription services, social networks and other venues where fans demonstrate their passion for music: Amazon, iTunes, YouTube, VEVO, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, MTV, ClearChannel, Yahoo! Music, AOL, Microsoft, We Are Hunted, LastFM and many more.
WIRED magazine declares BigChampagne is "the Nielsen ratings" of online music. Fast Company: "The Ultimate Chart will shake up an industry." The New York Times: "BigChampagne taps into a common frustration about how success can be measured." Bob Lefsetz: "It's like we're putting glasses on the music industry, the details are finally coming into focus." MTV: "synthesizes the statistics and determines which songs are truly the biggest."
Eric contributed data and analysis to Chris Anderson's best-selling book "The Long Tail" and partnered with Radiohead on "In Rainbows, On Torrents," a critical examination of the band's pay-what-you-wish album experiment. Colorful stories from his early career were told in Steve Knopper's history "Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age." Eric's advisory board memberships include Tapulous (acquired by Disney) and the digital initiative of the Recording Academy (The Grammys), where he has served alongside artists Kelly Clarkson and Kanye West. Eric was formally recognized for his outstanding contribution to the Recording Academy in 2007.
