Wednesday’s Music 2.0 Briefing: Limewire Shares $, Zune, CD’s & More

HYPEBOT FEATURES –

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  Streaming is the top music activity on the web and imeem has overtaken Yahoo as the top choice of listeners
• Dada adds DRM-free mp3’s from Sony BMG to its download store
• Google announces Friends Connect opening social networking across sites
• More reasons to distrust the music industry
• Top 10 Issues Facing Music 2.0. Join the debate.

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Limewire wants to give labels a share of ad revenue. (P2P Blog) Too little, too late?

> Zune has reached 2 million in sales.  Market share is coming from Creative rather than iTunes. (Engadget)

> Radiohead‘s In Rainbows is now on eMusic.

> RightsFlow, which provides licensing and royalty services, has announced a mechanical licensing agreement with The Harry Fox Agency. (press release)

> The Clear Channel Radio buyout deal is finally going through. (paidcontent)

Here is a pdf of an NPD group study of physical formats for NARM. (pdf) This is worth reading. The short story: the CD is not dead yet, but no other physical formats are gaining much traction. I would question how hard the labels are trying…