REWIND: The New Music Industry’s Week In Review

• Universal, Sony and Google backed music video site VEVO suffered major technical difficulties after launching, but now that we know VEVO's target audience, the problems may not matter.
• What was behind MySpace's purchase of imeem and why they shut the site down so quickly.
• Why Apple really bought Lala. Look for big changes next year at iTunes

• Analysis from around the net.
• Ian Rogers is excited that Apple bought Lala but Bruce Houghton is not.

• A Kyle Bylin essay that's spreading across the web – Music as Commerce: Understanding a Mindset.
• Billboard Magazine, The Hollywood Reporter and Backstage have all been sold.
• Overheard at this week's San Francisco Music Tech convention.
• EMI and IODA signed on with ad supported download music site Guvera. Look for an 2010 launch in the U.S.
• Cory Doctorow on "Why Music Streaming Will Fail". Express your opinion in a poll.
• How to create better YouTube videos.
• Video: A First Look @ Georgia Wonder's Free Recording Experiment
• 2009 Top 10's: Digital Downloads Of The Decade, 2009 Top 10 Lists's from iTunes and The Most Viral Videos Of 200.