More Music Industry News: Album Decline Slows, Imeem Gets $6M, TubeRadio, Mulligan: “Radical Overhaul” Needed & More

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  imeem wipes the slate clean with $6 million in new funding. (TechCrunch)

• Analysis: Album Sales Decline Slows To 6% in September, Track Equivalent Albums (TEAs) Down 4%. (Billboard)
• TubeRadio is a new internet music video player. Think of it as iTunes meets Youtube meets Last fm.  The free online app allows users to create a playlist, find rare videos and share them with friends.
• Music biz still in need of "radical overhaul" to thrive – The music industry is stuck in a rut and it needs to make some radical changes if it wants to stop bleeding money, according to Forrester. The firm has several suggestions for how to overhaul music products and insists that they must be consumer-friendly, not business-oriented. (ars)
• Record Label Embraces Pirate Party BitTorrent Tracker -  Last week TorrentFreak reported that the Canadian Pirate Party had established its own BitTorrent tracker. The Pirates hope to show that BitTorrent is not a threat, but a great tool for artists to promote their work. Record label Thorny Bleeder agrees and is now offering free music via the tracker. (TorrentFreak)
• Chris Ancliff, formerly General Counsel, EMI Group, has been appointed General Counsel – International, Warner Music Group. In this newly created position, Ancliff will report to Paul Robinson, WMG's Executive Vice President and General Counsel, and will have responsibility for all of the Group's legal and business affairs activities outside the U.S. He will be based in London.
• Just in from our buddy Virgil at indie Suburban Home: "We just launched a digital download store within our online store! To commemorate this news, we are giving away a Suburban Home/Chad Price Fall/Winter 2009 FREE digital sampler. Please help us spread the news. I am gonna go grab a beer."