Tuesday’s Music 2.0 Briefing: iTunes Mobile, Napster, Steinway & Much More
Hypebot Features:
- Napster Goes All MP3 With Four Majors & 6M Tracks
- Exclusive Interview With Napster’s COO
- AOL Music adds two more genre specific sites
- Brian Wilson returns to Capitol EMI for a new studio release
- Don’t miss the incredible comments on Can The Music Industry Save Itself –
Part 1 and join the discussion.
> Apple is in talks with labels to make more music and ringtones available via a new 3G iPhone expected to be announced in early June. The labels in return reportedly want variable pricing. (NY Times) Mobile downloads have helped boost sales in Asia. Why not here? But remember labels, the people want them as mp3’s.
> Steinway Musical Instruments has acquired ArkivMusic, an online retailer of classical music recordings. ArkivMusic sells over 90,000 titles,including thousands of previously out-of-print recordings produced "on-demand" through its ArkivCD program. (press release) Niches are the wave of the future and classical is a huge niche.
> High end audio firm Bowers & Wilkin’s has teamed with Peter Gabriels’ Real Studio to create Music Club, a monthly subscription service featuring exclusive content.
> MP3’s Go Mobile: AT&T is extending of its relationship with Napster, and beginning next month will offer subscribers access to over-the-air downloads of songs from the company’s catalog of over five million tracks. UPDATE: Just got word from Napster that the AT&T OTA downloads are NOt MP3’s. To bad since the cell provider also has a deal with eMusic. (Half Life)
> Our Digital Music has a review of the new Napster MP3 store.
> Clear Channel expands its net streaming via a deal with Reciva. (FMQB)
