Toby Keith is think about taking the plunge and starting his own record label. (Keith is one of the top selling Country Music stars in recent years for those of you far from Nashville).
He would not be the first country singer to break with the industry giants. Clint Black made a similar move that has proven to be quite successful.
Entertainment is a dynamic, healthy market dominated by large corporations that are not adapting, and probably cannot adapt, to the incredible changes being caused by technological revolutions (see this Small Business Trends post from yesterday as an example) and rapidly changing customer expectations. In five to ten years the current industry giants will likely have faded and a new generation of entrepreneurs will have transformed the business of music.
Dr Jeff Cornwall
Co-founder of The Entrepreneurial Mind, serial entrepreneur and professor of entrepreneurship.
as a 2 time combat veteran to iraq toby keith fueled my fire every day. thats how i lived threw it b/c i didnt forget about what i was fightin for, my 2 children my wife and my brothers i should only hope that one day i would get the chance of meeting toby and maybe if iwas the luckiest man alive he would help to be country music artist its my life long dream , thanks for listening toby your ausome brother