Music Industry News: Sirius XM Nears 20M Subs, Beatles Hits On iTunes, Ticketfly, Girl Talk & More

• Jobs beat rivals: Google, Amazon vied for Beatles back catalog. (Post)
• The Pirate Bay, One Year After The Tracker Shut Down. (TF)
• Sirius XM Nears 20 Million Subscribers; McCartney to Perform. (DMW) 
• All 17 Beatles Albums Are In The Top 100 On iTunes. (TC)
• Why The Music Industry Isn’t Suing Mashup Star ‘Girl Talk’. (PC) 
• Ticketfly announces Austin’s ACL Live as their 100th venue. (TNW)
• Now that WMG has bought the rest of Roadrunner Records, they are letting 20 staffers go. (Billboard)

More Music Industry News & Commentary:

• MIDEM in a constant state of reinvention. (Variety) 
• The Beatles' back catalogue should be available to download – just not through iTunes. (Guardian) 
• The 10 Greatest Rock Venues of All Time. (Gibson)
• What’s the Best Time to Release Your Album? (WAMM) 
• Facebook: Privatising the internet, one Poke at a time. (Register) 
• Shame shame: Decade's 10 biggest tech scandals. (CNET) 
• The internet – it's a bit crap. (Stuff)
• Sasha Frere-Jones, New Yorker’s Music Critic, Will Be Editor at News Corp.’s iPad Newspaper. (NYT)
• Startup Emues "brings you the opportunity to decide who's on stage in what city and when, utilizing brilliant open-source technologies and social networks that you enjoy." (Video)