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)
> 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 angel
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.
