Thursday’s Music Briefing: Radiohead’s 3M, We7, Shanghai Synergy & Much More
Some stats from the Radiohead "In Rainbows" release: 3 milliom sold says the publisher. (Music Ally). Read our guest post on how this release helped change the music industry. Radiohead’s "In Rainbows" One Year Later.- A look at the six top UK download stores. (Telegraph) And still no Amazon UK.
- RED signs indies Southern Lord and Decon for distribution. (Billboard.biz)
- We7 is shifting from ad supported downloads to streaming. (Music Ally)
- MySpace Karaoke has added tools to record and post your own performance video. (press release). Come on, I dare ya! The first Hypebot reader to email me your or your band’s MySpace Karaoke video gets it posted here.
- Shanghai Synergy Culture and Entertainment Group, a subsidiary of China’s 2nd biggest entertainment group Shanghai Media, and U.S. music and media company a-Peer have established a joint venture in Shanghai to help artists bridge the gap between the two countries. (Interfax)