Fast Company business magazine has named its Most Innovative Companies Of 2010 including 10 in music.
Spotify – North America is still waiting.
- Apple Corps – The Beatles, not Steve Jobs.
- Man Made Music – Joel Beckerman connecting sounds with brands.
- Vevo – Fast Company says, "Vevo is on its way to becoming the Hulu of music videos."
- Antares Audio Technologies – The Auto-Tune folks.
- Third Man Records – The Jack White empire.
- Beats by Dr. Dre – The partnership between Monster, Interscope Geffen A&M Records chairman Jimmy Iovine, and Dr. Dre made giant studio-quality headphones a fashion accessory.
- Ticketfly – The concert ticket service uses software pioneered in the hedge-fund industry to let groups of friends buy tickets together.
- Insomniac Productions – Electric Daisy Carnival annual electronica festival in L.A. that grew to 135,000 in 2009.
- Playdar – This open-source app looks for tracks on the Web and the users hard drives and pulls them together in a single jukebox.
What do you think of the Fast Company list?