Artist Sellout? The Moby Equation

[Furtherman]

Topical with Ron's discussion today, The Washington Post had an article about musical sellouts and actually came up with a formula with the help of a mathematics expert.

It's called The Moby Equation because he "openly boasted of having sold every track of his breakthrough album "Play" to an advertiser. The album should perhaps have been called "Pay."

I thought if you frequently have the "sellout" discussion among friends, you might find this amusing.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/graphic/2007/10/12/GR2007101201091.gif

How to Calculate Musical Sellouts (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/12/AR2007101200496.html)

The Moby Quotient (http://projects.washingtonpost.com/2007/sellout-songs/)

[badorties]

part of the moby deal included tv and movie placement/usage

are the who sellouts for CSI using "baba o'reilly" as a theme song ..?

is there difference between that and the rolling stones licensing "monkey man" for goodfellas ...?

[Furtherman]

are the who sellouts for CSI using "baba o'reilly" as a theme song ..?

is there difference between that and the rolling stones licensing "monkey man" for goodfellas ...?

That is a good point. But there is a big difference of "Monkey Man" being used to create a timely mood in a movie and "Baba O'Reilly" opening a television show. But I'll admit I'm biased against comparing Goodfellas to a hack TV show.