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Comedian Dave Chappelle predicted that the first black president would be blamed for an asteroid hitting earth and causing destruction. Chappelle made the prediction with his comedy sketch in 2003.   Come February 2013, Fox News is questioning if President Obama plotted the Russian meteor in order to prove that global warming was real.  Really???

Did Chappelle pull a Nostradamus?  Anything is possible especially if you pay a closer look at numbers and trends.  People tend to be pretty repetitive in nature… Look at how the music industry works.  The music trends seem to repeat itself in a full circle.  So how do you get ahead of the trend?  Pay closer attention to what the dinosaurs did wrong.  Some of the dinosaurs are actually trying to survive.  I read the Lefsetz Letter pretty religiously.  The Lefsetz Letter is a blog by music veteran Bob Lefsetz who mentioned in one of his earlier blogs this year that he is turning 60.  Some of the things he says really makes me think that he gets paid to write them.  I don’t always agree with his statements but this is America and everyone is entitled to their opinion.  One thing that did impress me was that Bob Lefsetz has been preaching about how Facebook is on the decline and isn’t really cool anymore.  How can that be though when so many people use it?   However, today I read about how Director of Product at Facebook, Blake Ross, gave his notice and will be leaving the company.  In a goodbye note Blake Ross wrote “I’m leaving because a Forbes writer asked his son’s best friend Todd if Facebook was still cool and the friend said no, and plus none of HIS friends think so either, even Leila who used to love it, and this journalism made me reconsider the long-term viability of the company.”

If the new generation of kids doesn’t think Facebook is cool anymore then they probably don’t use it to discover new music.  So what is the next big thing that will grab peoples’ attention.  Purevolume broke Girls Like Boys.  Martin Johnson got signed purely on his Purevolume plays.  I’m not really sure what bands got picked up based on their Myspace numbers.  Dispatch became successful because when Napster came out the kid who started Napster loved the band so much that he carried their gear for them and made sure they would pop up in every type of search entered in Napster.

Social media is the new major label….  All you have to do is be the first one to find what new social media site is cool.  Does it mean you need to start reading Bob Lefsetz blog to find out what site is popular?  I say read his blog cause it is fun, even though frustrating at times.  But I doubt your going to figure out what website is trending from Bob. He’s been off his game a little lately.  Writing about Harlem Shake videos after the entire world already saw all the videos and got over them…

If you really do care about your career and want to discover the next blog to put your band’s music on I say follow TechCrunch as they are probably the best at letting you know what websites and tech companies are growing in popularity and which will blow up because they got funding.  And as most of you have learned, hopefully… Money has a lot to do with kickstarting an artists career and determining an artists popularity.