Music Industry Week In Review: Zune, EMI, Amazon, Tribes, The Musical Middle Class & More

Microsoft Zune News: New Subscriptions With 10 Free Tracks plus Cuts Player Prices, Common Tapped For Ad EMI Shifts Focus From Sales To Fan Relationships A Look At Amazon’s 70,000. Continue reading

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If you have a Yahoo! or Google home page, use Google Reader or any of the dozens of other RSS (Real Simple Syndication) readers out there, you can now be. Continue reading

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Mufin: Audio Based Music Discovery On Steroids

Mufin.com, a flexible and portable music discovery engine has launched in public beta. The company has 4 million songs in its database and its fingerprinting technology offers recommendations based on. Continue reading

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The Tipping Point Of The Ballad

GUEST POST by Kyle Bylin of indie label 50 Entertainment In Malcolm Gladwell’s book, The Tipping Point, he describes the levels at which the momentum of  change becomes unstoppable.  Expanding. Continue reading

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Friday’s Music Briefing: MySpace Music, CMJ ’09, iTunes DRM Free & More

HYPEBOT FEATURES: Mufin: Audio Based Music Discovery On Steroids The Tipping Point Of The Ballad In Support Of The Musical Middle Class eMusic Hits 250K Downloads And 4.5M Tracks MORE. Continue reading

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eMusic Hits 250M Downloads And 4.5M Tracks

eMusic announced that it has sold 250 million MP3 downloads since establishing its subscription model in 2003.  The milestone comprises music downloads sold in the U.S., Canada and the E.U.. Continue reading

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In Support Of The Musical Middle Class

A debate is raging on TechCrunch over the keynote at the Grammy Northwest Music Tech Summit by Topspin Media‘s Ian Rogers. TechCrunch readers are aggressively rebutting both the effectiveness of. Continue reading

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A Third Path For Music Investors

Is the music industry a smart place to invest? Yesterday in "Is Music A Good Investment? Whyte vs. Resnikof," I contrasted the doom and gloom of Digital Music News’ Paul. Continue reading

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Zune Revalues Subscriptions With 10 Free Tracks

Microsoft, has increased the value of its Zune Pass music subscriptions adding 10 free mp3 downloads a month to its $14.99 package. The announcement also added Sony BMG and Universal. Continue reading

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