NEWS BRIEF: Madonna Is Everywhere, Music Sees Light, EMI EU Review, Hip Hop + SXSW, MOG & More
(UPDATED) Madonna Is Everywhere: Design marketplace Fab.com is offering the deluxe edition of Madonna's new album MDNA for $7.99. Jimmy Fallon interviewed her live via Facebook. No stats yet, but watch the replay here. Spotify has an exclusive version of the album, with a remix of by DJ Dave Audé.
- Music Industry Can See The Light After ‘Least Negative’ Sales Since 2004 (paidContent)
- EU starts phase 2 of their review of EMI sale to Universal. (Guardian)
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- South By Southwest's Hip-Hop Takeover: Did Rap Trump Rock This Year? (Hollywood Reporter)
Lil' Wayne, Jay-Z, Nas, Eminem, Snoop Dogg, 50 Cent, T.I. and Wiz Khalifa were just some of the hip-hop heavies who turned big corporate bucks into headlining gigs. - Spotify Heading For Ireland And Oz As Rdio Gears Up In Europe. (paidContent)
- No definitive word on the sale of MOG. But the music streamer has unveiled an iPad app, something Spotify is sorely without.
- Entertainment trade Variety is being actively shopped, as owner Reed moves away from print magazines.
- French electronic duo AIR along with Ian Anderson & Jethro Tull, have launched developer ‘sandboxes’ via its OpenEMI platform run in partnership with The Echo Nest.
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Re: MOG, you mean iPad app, which by the way, means nothing in terms of whether it is being sold or not. Case in point: Napster revealed an iPad app … a week after Rhapsody announced it was acquiring it. Now Napster subscribers who were forced to migrate to Rhapsody are still without an iPad app.