Rewind – The Music Industry’s Week In Review: Apple, Twitter, YouTube, Spotify, Google & More

Hypebot publishes a weekly roundup of music business news each Saturday. For breaking news also follow @hypebot on Twitter.

• Apple is pushing to launch their cloud service in April.
• Twitter turned 5. Here's 5 ways that it changed music.
• German YouTubers are protesting against major labels.
• Hypebot asks, "Is the shared music experience a niche?"
• Bruce Houghton has 5 great takeaways from SXSW 2011.
• Music recommendation engines aren't satisfying fans.

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• Spotify was attacked; it has since pulled third party ads.
• Study shows that UMG is still the dominate major label.
• Google is tests music service. Why labels should approve.
• Musak, a background sound provider, sold for $345M.
• Canada continues to beat the US is digital music growth.
• How do classic acts use social media? Do they engage?
• MySpace site traffic is continuing to race to the bottom.
• Robin Davey says RCDDEALS matters more than Spotify.
• Study shows the demise of Limewire cut music piracy.
• Rapid growth in social network stats may not continue.
• Hypebot asks, "If cloud music booms, do musicians lose?"
• Facebook kicks 20,000 underage fans off its site each day.
• Sick of Sarah gets downloaded 1M times on BitTorrent.
• Supreme court refuses to hear UMG's Eminem lawsuit.