Digital distributor and marketer The Orchard is launching a groundbreaking platform, using an API, to provide its artist and label clients access to third party business solutions within their client. Continue reading

The headline reads "The Monetization Of Mimi" and what better artist to embrace ads on her CD booklet than someone who sold out long ago.  When Mariah Carey's "Memoirs of. Continue reading

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"Near the end of the twentieth century, Major Labels that embraced disposability and commercial music as a viable way to achieve repetitive consumption realized that in catering previously to niche. Continue reading

On Music, New Business Models And The Quest For Win-Win-Win Techdirt.com has grown from a one-man operation founded in 1997 by Mike Masnick to one of the web's leading voices. Continue reading

With SocialChord artists can offer fans a paid subscription to premium content via Twitter or SMS. It's a great concept and kudos on payments via all the major cell carriers,. Continue reading

European download provider 7 Digital has announced a rare pan-Eurpean licensing with the Warner Music Group to sell mp3's throughout the region. Beginning this month, 7digital stores in France, Belgium,. Continue reading

Is the recession finally catching up with live music – the last safe place that most artists could count on for income? According to report from Reuters, last minute concert. Continue reading

Kyle Bylin, Associate EditorTo understand the MTV Generation, the Millennials, and the epidemic of file-sharing that has preceded them, Malcolm Gladwell, best-selling author of The Tipping Point and Outliers, might. Continue reading