More Music Industry News: Mobile Music, Sirius Stock Sale, Bug Music, Russell Gets Richer & More

• Can Device Integration Save Music Journalism? (Epicenter)
  
•  Interview: RCA/Jive’s Sean Rosenberg: Labels Are The Scapegoat For Mobile Music’s Woes (MocoNews)
  
• Five top executives at Sirius XM have reportedly sold off seven million shares of the satcaster in recent months, netting $3.2 million. (FMQB)
  
• Digital music services – Spotify, we7, Napster – Who's making money? (BBC)
  
• Inc. Magazine Names Bug Music to Top 100 Fastest Growing Privately Held Companies
  
• Copyright Drama Prevents Artist From Sharing Music on MySpace: Efforts by Warner Music to prevent music piracy have gone so far that indie artist Edwyn Collins is unable to share one of his own tracks on MySpace. In a response to the copyright drama, Collins’ manager explains that file-sharers are not the problem, but the labels themselves. (TorrentFreak)
• Russell Gets Richer: GlobalGrind, the urban news and lifestyle site founded by Russell Simmons, has raised $2.6 million worth of a proposed $3.4 million round of funding, per an SEC filing. GlobalGrind raised $3.5 million in a first round from Accel Partners in 2007; Simmons invested in that round. (paidContent)
• Online provider GOOM Radio secures key US music industry iicenses.
  
• What To Do When Artists Who Otherwise 'Get It' Freak Out Over 'Piracy'. (Techdirt)
  
• DoubleTwist's iTunes alternative leaves us wanting - doubleTwist, the company owned by "DVD Jon," has released a desktop front-end to the Amazon MP3 store that also lets you use your media library from iTunes and iPhoto. There were various problems that we ran into, however, that will keep us using the Web version of Amazon. (ars)
• Analysis: The Cost of Streaming Billions of Songs (Billboard)
  
• TAG Strategic has formed a partnership with Sean Ryan, a respected consultant and digital media entrepreneur with more than 12 years of experience in the video game, social media and digital music industries.  Ryan will develop new business opportunities and co-consult new clients as TAG’s Head of Games and Social Media
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