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