Monday’s Music Briefing: Ad Supported Slump, Playlists, Facebook Music, EMI.com & More
HYPEBOT FEATURES:
Harvard Class Tries To Raise Curtain On RIAA Trial- A Video Mashup Of The Top 25 Hits Of 2008
- A Review Of Last Week’s Top Music Industry News
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- Join The Discussion: Kill The CD To Save The Industry, Study Advises
- Bad News For Ad Supported Music: A look inside the ad sales slump at a MySpace and Facebook. (paidContent)
- Satellite radio is still looking for its pay day. (NY Times) With internet broadcasts going wireless I wonder if it will ever come.
- UK retails chain Zavvi falls into administration. (Reuters)
- An op-ed on Project Playlist and how it might be a boon to the record labels that are suing it. (LA Times) "The record companies too need to join entrepreneurs in the marketplace, not the courtroom." I agree.
- LaLa appears may be in the lead to power Facebook Music, but big questions remain. (Venture Beat)
- "What happens to the music itself when the way to build a career shifts from recording songs that ordinary listeners want to buy to making music that marketers can use?" asks Jon Pareles in the New York Times.
- Scott Cave of Red Velvet/Rook Interactive writes convincingly that the new EMI.com is in part an affirmation that its a fertile climate for indie music on his Red Velvet blog.
- Book publishers face the same challenges in the new marketplace that the record labels do, but this author believes it may weather the digital storm much differently. (Motley Fool)
- The Year In Music & Branding. (Soundcheck)
hi hypebot
luv ur page — today’s story about ProjectPlaylist links to a story about EMI.com, not projectplaylist