Music Schools Sell Phantom Career
"An estimated 2,700 music performance majors graduate from American centers of higher learning every year. The usual number of jobs available: 160 or fewer." (The LA Times) And this is. Continue reading
Today’s Hypebot Music Indsutry Fast Facts & Figures
The Orchard announced a deal with Infospace that will make mastertones from it’s 800,000 track catalogue available to Infospace’s mobile partners including Cingular, Virgin Mobile USand T-Mobile and others extending. Continue reading
Apple Rumored To Buy EMI…And The Cow Jumped Over The Moon
From the UK’s Independent via Coolfer – "Takeover rumors did the rounds again yesterday, with more talk of a link-up with Warner Music…(stock market insiders)also speculated that Apple, the computing. Continue reading
Hypebot Music Indsutry Fast Facts & Figures
UK’s Guardian reports that the British music industry lost £414m ($726 million US) to illegal file-sharing on the internet. Recently 2,000 new anit-P2P lawsuits were launched across 10 countries. This. Continue reading
Three Niche Sites Swim Upstream Against The iTunes Tsunami
Three online stores that are fighting the iTunes tsunami and hoping for long lives by finding their own niches and serving them well, according to an article in the Village. Continue reading
This Week’s Coalition Of Indie Music Stores Chart
Label Pos. ARTIST | TITLE INT 1 YEAH YEAH YEAHS|SHOW YOUR BONE ATLG 2 T.I.|KING DEF 3 GHOSTFACE KILLA|FISHSCALE VRGN 4 HARPER*BEN|BOTH SIDES OF THE G. Continue reading
Indie Labels Warming To Podcasting But Majors Still Wary
From cNet News via RAIN "…to date, the major labels have been reluctant to license full-track songs to the podcasting community because podcasts are downloaded files free of digital rights. Continue reading
UK’s Sandi Thom Uses Net To Sign With RCA
A month ago we wrote about UK musician Sandi Thom broadcasting live performances for 21 straight nights from her tiny apartment. More than 100,000 people tuned in and now she’s. Continue reading
Google, MTV’s Urge, Amazon and Mobile Companies Line Up To Challenge iTunes
Watch out iTunes, Napster, Yahoo!, and Rhapsody. Here comes the competition! The tech and music worlds are increasingly convinced that Google is getting into the music download business This comes. Continue reading
5 Hypebot Questions For FanMail’s David DeVore
Good communication with your fans is a cornerstone of the post-net music industry. But in an era of spam and email overload is email marketing still effective? Web based application. Continue reading
