Friday’s Music 2.0 Briefing: MySpace India, Radio Slumps & More
HYPEBOT FEATURES:
- MySpace Music shares some equity plans for indies and it ain’t pretty.
- Clive Davis is moved down and Jive’s Barry Weiss promoted at SonyBMG
- CD Baby’s Derek Sivers Guest Blogs: What’s Really Keeping Us From Where We Need To Be. (It’s Not Piracy.)
- UK digital music players float a 5 point action plan
- Saturday is national indie Record Store Day
- Nokia’s Comes With Music could mean a major windfall for the major record labels
> MySpace has launched a local site in India. This comes days after a similar launch in S Korea and marks 30 local sites in 15 languages for the social networker. (press release) How many are you active on?
> RADIO: Ad revenues are down in most markets. 120 lawmakers are asking the FCC to revisit new localization rules. (FMQB)
> Limewire again tops the P2P applications popularity chart. Here’s the list via MP3Wire.
> R.I.P. – E Street band keyboardist Danny Federici