Foo Fighters Draw 440,000 To Web Only Concert
It's not quite the 10 million that YouTube says watched last week's U2 online concert, but 440,000 tuning in to see a net only concert by the Foo Fighters via. Continue reading
IODA Adds Labels To Distribution Roster
Digital distributor IODA has inked a number of new content deals. Labels include V2 Benelux, Union Square Music, Agriculture, Asian Man, Barge, Catsup Plate, Captured Tracks, Jade Tree and NooN. Continue reading
Echo Nest To Enhance MOG’s All Access
The Echo Nest will help power MOG's All Access music offering when it launched near the end of this month. Echo Nest is a proprietary machine learning platform that listens. Continue reading
Lala And MySpace Offer Free & Exclusive Tracks To Showcase New Google Search
(UPDATE 2) iLike / MySpace let us know this morning that they are offering the same free and exclusive tracks as Lala. To showcase their new partnership with Google for. Continue reading
More Music Industry News: Digital Beatles (Legal & Not), Royalties, The Orchard, INgrooves, EMI & More
I wrote about Beatles downloads being available for the first time on Bluebeat last week and asked if it could possibly be legal. EMI doesn't think so and is suing. Continue reading
Indie Artist X Project Wrap Up
This guest post comes from David Rose who created the Indie Artist X experiment. David Rose is also the Managing Editor at KnowTheMusicBiz.com and a Partner at The PlazaBridge Group.. Continue reading
Report: Universal Music CEO Morris To Step Aside
Universal Music Group's Doug Morris will step aside next year and international chief Lucian Grainge will assume the role of CEO, according to BusinessWeek. Morris, who is 71 this month,. Continue reading
Orchard Shares Double On Buyout News
(NEWS & ANALYSIS) Shares of digital distributor The Orchard rose 38.9% during the trading day yesterday and then jumped another 70% after hours on news that majority shareholder Dimensional Associates. Continue reading
Use Lala & MySpaceTo Improve Google Results
Along with Lala's new deal to provide enhanced music search results for Google alongside MySpace and others comes word that indie artists and label will be able to control and. Continue reading
NARM Invites Hypebot Readers To Online Music Consumer Behavior Seminar
The National Association of Recording Merchandisers (NARM) is inviting Hypebot readers to attend an online seminar this Thursday, November 5th that will examine the results of a recent study of. Continue reading
