Tuesday’s Music Briefing: Yang Out, Def Jam Ups, Best Buy Listens & Much More
Hip Hop Business News From ProHipHop- The Evolution Of Tribal Curiosity
- A Look At Amazon’s 70,000 New Artist Stores
- Kayne West Uses imeem To "Leak" New Mixes
- IODA Partners With BounDEE for Japan
- CEO Jerry Yang is exiting Yahoo! leaving the future of the troubled internet giant further in doubt. (ars) Sorry, but what took him so long?
- Jeff Straughn has been promoted to Senior Vice President, Strategic Marketing, Island Def Jam Music Group. (press release) Congrats!
- Best Buy to host G ‘n R "Chinese Democracy" listening parties on several major markets. (DMW) (yawn…)
- Jason Bentley is taking over the morning and music director slots LA’s trendsetting KCRW
- How is Universal boosting its digital music revenues? (cNet)
- WMG stock hit a new low of $2.40 yesterday. (Google Finance) It was up slightly to $2.59 in early morning trading today.
- Common continues his effort to make (my player of choice) Zune hip. (AP)
- Sprout , a platform for developing and managing engagement marketing campaigns has integrated Google Analytics Tracking for Adobe Flash technology into its solution built with the open source Flex framework.
- Desi Hits!, an entertainment and lifestyle hub for South Asian culture, today announced a partnership with Warner Music Group to give the music company’s artists entree to Desi and Bollywood fans.
- Dada Entertainment, a provider of digital and mobile entertainment services, announced a charity drive to raise money for Yéle Haiti, the organization founded by Wyclef Jean. The initiative which runs for a week will see a portion of every new Dada.net subscription donated to support Yéle Haiti and their plan to repair schools. (press release)