Hypebot’s Music 2.0 Week In Review: Blog Award Winners, Ticketing Shift, Universal’s Toll Booth & More
> Hypebot announced the winners of its 2007 Best Music Blogs contest.
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Concert giant Live Nation shared details of its plan to move its ticketing from Ticketmaster.
> Warner Music Group settled its lawsuit with XM over the Pioneer Inno radio.
> WMG’s year-end deal followed a similar settlement between Universal Music and XM as that major label group continued to pursue its "toll booth’ strategy of charging device manufacturers for music use.
> Hip Hop dominated AT&T’s Top 10 Ringtones of 2007.
> A look back at how well Hypebot and other music industry pundits did with our predictions for 2007. What are your predictions for the music industry in 2008?
> Paul McCartney commented on his split with EMI.
> Our sister blog OurDigitalMusic shared "10 Musicians I Want To Invite To My Office Christmas Party".