Lady Gaga Hits 10M Twitter Followers plus 10 Must See Twitter Stats
Saturday night, Lady Gaga became the first celebrity or brand to reach 10 million Twitter followers, according to Famecount. "10MillionMonsters! I'm speechless, we did it! Its an illness how I. Continue reading
News Brief: Sony Net Back, Spotify Gets Gaga, Music Investment, LimeWire Upside, NBA Music & More
After 26 days, the PlayStation Network and Sony Music Unlimited are back up in the U.S. and will be soon in Asia. Blogger and Twitter also both had brief outages. Continue reading
MTT Weekly Recap: Self-Released Albums, Elliott Smith, Recording, Music in the Cloud, MTT Community Manager
Where The Music Industry Thinks Out Loud Musician Wages: An Introduction to the Self-Released Album Padma Gillen: Thank you Elliott Smith Travis Whitmore: Recording: Getting it Right at the Source . Continue reading
REWIND: The Music Industry’s Week In Review
Limewire settled with the RIAA and labels for $105M, but it appears artists won't see a dime. WMG Sale Update – A shareholder filed a lawsuit to block the sale. Continue reading
Co-Founder & Former CEO Chris DeWolfe Hints At Buying Back MySpace
"I'd love to work with Myspace again," concludes a wide ranging BusinessWeek interview withMySpace co-founder and former CEO Chis DeWolfe. But will the current CEO of gaming company MindJolt actually. Continue reading
A Look At Creation Of Amazing Danger Mouse, Jack White, Norah Jones HTML5 Video
(UPDATED) "3 Dreams of Black" is Chris Milk's new interactive film, created in WebGL with Google for Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi's ROME, featuring Jack White & Norah Jones. The. Continue reading
TourIntel Offers Free Look At Live Show Data
TourIntel offers "Concert Business Intelligence" and accounts are currently free for a limited time. TourIntel claims to provide data on over 15,000 artists performing at over 7500 venues for more. Continue reading
WMG Shareholder Files Lawsuit To Block $1.3B Sale
Warner Music Group's board of directors "abandoned their duties" when agreeing to a $1.3 billion sale last week. According to a lawsuit filed by shareholder Barbara A. Varipapa in Delaware's. Continue reading
Unversal Music Stumbles: Revenue -5%, Sales -2.7%
A day after a report that overall music sales had increased in the first months of 2011, Universal Music Group announced a drop in both sales and revenue. According to. Continue reading
Bidding For EMI Could Be Over Before It Starts
According to several reports, the owners of EMI has already been holding private meetings with Russian-born tycoon Len Blavatnik, who just won the bidding war for Warner MusicGroup. It's no. Continue reading
PROTECT IP Act Seeks To Eliminate Due Process, Industry Organizations Applaud
A draft version of the already controversial "Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act of 2011", aka the PROTECT IP Act, leaked was introduced. Continue reading
