Rewind – The Music Industry’s Week In Review: Sales Decline, Cloud Music, ZapTunes & More

• RealNetworks launched Unifi, a new music and media cloud service.
• Nielsen SoundScan reports U.S. album sales were down 13% in 2010.
• Reports say that a U.S. launch could've killed Spotify due to costs.
• ZapTunes plans to relaunch its fraud as a social network, look out!

More Rewind:

• Portishead's Geoff Barrow dismisses new media album promotions.
• From 2000-2010, the RIAA spent over 90 million on lobbying efforts.
• SoundCloud embeds content ID tech to protect their sound creators.
• Pandora is going to start showing up in Toyota and BMW cars now.
• Digital-only record label X5 Music has landed $9.09 million in funds.
• MOG's app will now come as a standard install on Verizon Androids.
• Slacker Radio previewed their streaming service and new iPad app.
• Hypebot interviewed the COO of Rdio on the start of their company.
• U.S. Court of Appeals has ruled that promotional CDs can be resold.
• BitTorrent reached 100 million users; here are five insights to know.
• RootMusic got $2.3 million in funds to help build Facebook pages.
• Spotify thinks that the URL will become the universal music format.
• Hypebot interviewed the CEO of Thumbplay Music on their service.
• Jon Ostrow tells how artists can use probabilistic promotion tactics.
• What do the masses really think about pop music? Not a whole lot.
• In the wake of looking for a buyer, MySpace may start firing people.
• If you've wondered why bar music is so loud, you should read this.