REWIND: The Music Industry’s Week In Review
- The Orchard's shares doubled on stock buyout news.
- Did Qtrax tell another lie? Search deal with Baidu may be less than claimed.
- Falling traffic at MySpace will mean $100 million less in ad payments from Google.
- MobBase introduced a d.i.y. music iPhone apps. But with 100,000 apps will it get lost?
- iLike & MySpace offer free tracks to promote new enhanced Google music search. And artists are finding ways to use to improve their results on the new search engine.
- Topsin's Ian Roger's becomes an artist manager.
- Another great Kyle Bylin essay – A Tale of Two Industries: What Do Books and Music Have In Common?
- At age 71, Universal Music CEO Doug Morris to step aside.
- IFPI: "Illegal File-sharing Reduces Legitimate Sales" What do you think? Vote here.
- EMI diversifies with Abby Road Live concert recording outfit.
- BlueBeat began selling Beatles downloads for $.25 claiming "psycho-analytics" it applied to the songs made the sales legal. Days later EMI got a court injunction beating back the bazaar defense.
- RealNetworks lays off 70 or 4% of their workforce.
- Its real: New Weezer CD + An Official Snuggie Only $29.99!
- Topspin and Berklee partner for online music marketing course.
- Foo Fighters draw 440,000 to web only concert.
- Our Indie Artist X Project Wrap Up