Majority Of European Music Industry Says Drop DRM It Won’t Hurt Revenues
Jupiter Research’s new European Music Executive Survey reveals that most Euro music industry execs (employees of major and indie labels, industry and rights groups, digital stores, and services providers) want. Continue reading
EMI Hits Another Sour Note
EMI shares dropped another 12% after it announced yesterday that sales January through March 31would drop 15% and earnings would miss analysts’ estimates. The company had already warned in January. Continue reading
RealNetworks 4thQ Profits Fall
RealNetworks reported a lower quarterly profit yesterday dues to sharply reduced income from a legal settlement with Microsoft and forecast full-year results below expectations. Fourth-quarter net income was $39.3 million. Continue reading
Goldberg and Roback Out At Yahoo Music
Yahoo Music head David Goldberg is exiting the struggling division along with Music GM Robert Roback. Goldberg has been one of the industry’s first and most vocal voices for dropping. Continue reading
EMI Says Give A Little Green On VDay
EMI has created the perfect eCard featuring Al Green’s "Love & Happiness" to send to your honey for Valentine’s Day. Customize and send it now before you forget. It’s part. Continue reading
New Study Says Stop Blaming P2P
A new study in the Journal of Political Economy by Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf which took a careful look at P2P and sales data for the dawn of the. Continue reading
The Indie Vs. Major Debate Circa 2007
The Sunday Times online took a fairly balance look at the major vs. indie debate form the artist perspective. Do you need a major to have mega-success? Is being owned. Continue reading
MP3tunes Adds Free Unlimited Storage & Streaming
MP3tunes.com has added free unlimited online music storage with the release of its new Oboe music locker. Oboe serves as an online backup service but users also benefit from unlimited. Continue reading
The Leaked Bonnaroo Line-Up
Courtesy of our friend Justin at the always cool Live Music Blog: "I had a feeling that Superfly wouldn’t be able to keep the lid on the Bonnaroo 2007 lineup,. Continue reading
Warner Music Group Goes Green
As part of its ongoing environmental initiative with the Natural Resources Defense Council, WEA, the U.S. sales and distribution company of Warner Music Group Corp.has announced that all of its. Continue reading
