REWIND: The Music Industry’s Week In Review
Warner Music's Rhino Records lays off 30-40.
- Kyle Bylin's The Digital Dilemma: Finding a Path to Salvation
- The Music Industry Pays The Price Of Negativity – It's Time For A New Conversation.
- Marketer Seth Godin says "Win the fight, lose the customer."
- Sony trys AmieStreet's variable pricing but adds major restrictions.
- Lilly Allen speaks out on piracy, quits her campaign after facing nasty backlash, and then shows up at a meeting of other artists called The Featured Artists Coalition and wins their support for a modified 3 strikes plan. VOTE: Do You Support Lilly Allen and FAC's Anti-P2P Plan?
- Social Networking: 6 Ways To Make The Most Of Twitter's 140 Characters, MySpace beats Facebook with Twitter synch and Robo.to adds microvideos to social networking.
- Video: Rick Rubin and Russell Simmons briefly reminisce.
- Ringtones Continue Decline
- Video: Black Eyed Peas And Oprah Orchestrate A 21,000 Strong Flash Mob Dance
- Who Says CD Sales Are Dead? Remastered Beatles Sell 2.25 Million In 2 Weeks.
- Sony trys AmieStreet's variable pricing but adds some big restrictions.
- Just 9% of users are willing to pay for Spotify Premium.
- RIAA chief says the Music industry has "5 Reasons for Optimism".
- Guest essay: Lefsetz Is Wrong.
- Study: Illegal downloaders also buy and stream music.
- Lawsuit claims Guitar Center, NAMM fixed prices.
- New Music Seminar comes to Chicago Oct. 6th
- The Smashing Pumpkins will use the freemium model to release their new album.
- New Music Tech: Mobile video so far: promise vs. progress, Genro.tv encourages fan created "official" videos with contests and community and the Georgia Tech Edison Fund invests in Band Metrics.
- Midem adds a music tech showcase and 2 major keynotes.