Wednesday’s Music Brief: iTunes, StubHub, Spotify, The Beatles, Coldplay & More

HYPEBOT FEATURES:

• iTunes Hits $1.29 But EMI, Amazon And Walmart Buck Pricing Trend
• doubleTwist Gets $5M To Help You Share Music & Media With Your Friends
• In Defense Of The Album
• Today: Live With Michael Robertson Of MP3Tunes
• Video: Tap Tap Revenge Coldplay Edition

MORE MUSIC INDUSTRY NEWS:

• eBay owned ticket reseller StubHub meets with federal regulators looking into the Ticketmaster Live Nation merger. (Bloomberg)
• Music fans will buy songs, says head of free online music site Spotify.(Guardian)
• Spotify opens up to third-party developers. (Music Ally)
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  Beatles Get The Re-Release Treatment: The Beatles catalog has been digitally re-mastered for the first time and will be re-released worldwide on 9-9-09 alongside the “The Beatles: Rock Band” video game.  Each CD includes the original UK album art and the original and newly written liner note. For a limited period, each CD will also be embedded with a brief documentary film about the album. On the same date, two new Beatles boxed CD collections will also be released. Still no deal for digital downloads.
• Coldplay files response to copyright case. (AFP)
• The founder of indie label Dualtone and the former manager of the Kentucky Headhunters open Harrington/Fox Management in Nashville. (Music Row)
• Mobility is key to Internet radio. (Winston Salem Journal)
• TrueAnthem adds tracking tools for brands supporting its free music download service. (VentureBeat)
• In search of the 69 cent songs on iTunes. (Gizmodo)
• Ding-dong, DRM Is Dead – But Here Comes Variable Pricing. (Gigaom) I'd like to call this a must read, but it might have something to do with the fact that in it tech guru Om Malik calls Hypebot "an excellent music industry blog". Thanks Om!