Tuesday Music Briefing: BMG, Sirius XM Merger, Cloudtrade & More

HYPEBOT FEATURES:

• EMI turns a profit and a look at how
• GigMaven opens gig marketplace
• Widget enables Radiohead style distribution
• The winner of a pass to Music Tank’s Millennials confab
• JOIN THE DISCUSSION: 5 Lies Indie Musicians Tell Themsleves
  

> Bertelsmann unlikely to get its price for BMG. (FMQB)

> FCC needs just 1 more vote to approve XM and Sirius merger. (Dow Jones)

> Veteran Nashville promo man Tom Moran moves from Show Dog Records to Nine North as VP of promotion. (Billboard)

> Cloudtrade, a free ad supported full-track mobile download service has added Ghostly International and A-Squared, the management arm of Aware Records to catalog from indies ATO and SCI Fidelity. (press release)

> Apple move 1M 3G iPhones and 10M apps in the first weekend. (DMW)

> XM signs BB King for a weekly radio show. (press release)