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Thursday’s Music 2.0 Briefing: SonyBMG Goes Greek, Sobule Begs, Radio Falls & More

TODAY’S HYPEBOT FEATURES: iLike’s Dashboard Grabs 200K artists and MySpace integration is on the way, Can The Crowd Choose The Hits? SliceThePie release its first album, OnStage Partners With AOLMusic.

PLUS:

> Millennials Canada 2008: Record Labels Face the Music. (DMW)

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> SonyBMG’s online store gets more local and more international at the same time for the Greek market via a collaberation with mpGreek. (press release)

> Singer Jill Sobule has turned to her fans to raise money for her next release.  So far she’s raised almost $70K. (AP)

> Merge Records has opened its own digtal store selling FLAC’s alongside mp3’s and CD’s. (Merge)

> Taltopia.com which tries to connects talent with fans and industry professionals announced an Series "A" round of funding of $800,000 led by an angelRadio_tower investor from Go4Funding a site whose goal is to unite entrepreneurs and investors. (press release) I can hear you clicking off to GoFunding…I know I did.

> Broadcast radio revenues fell 11% in the 4th Quarter, (FMQB) and they’re going to continue to fall unless they full embrace online.

> Ezmo, the online music storage and sharing service has shut down.

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