Pandora’s First Ads Feature Surprise One-on-One Concerts By Lindsey Stirling

Pandora's new #ThumbMoments campaign may be awkwardly named but it's a pretty cool effort to delight individual fans. Basically a fan hits the thumbs up like button on an artist's. Continue reading

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Are Apple And Major Labels Planning A CD-Like ‘Audio Upgrade’ Campaign?

Remember all of the money you spent – and the record labels made – when upgraded your record and tape collection to "superior sounding" CDs? Former label chief and Jimmy. Continue reading

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Radiohead’s Thom Yorke Releases New Album Via BitTorrent

Radiohead's Thom Yorke has released his new solo album "Tomorrow's Modern Boxes" via BitTorrent for $6.  Ever since Radiohead released an album using a "pay what you want." Yorke has experimented. Continue reading

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Seth Godin: But the Beatles were out of tune…

By Seth Godin The pedant (that's what we call someone who is pedantic, a picker of nits, eager to find the little thing that's wrong or out of place) is. Continue reading

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Stripe Powering Facebook’s Buy Button Tests

Stripe is becoming omnipresent as a partner in new social and mobile payment systems. They offer an integration with the upcoming Apple Pay and are also one of a small. Continue reading

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Warped Tour’s Kevin Lyman’s Free Online Class Is This Saturday + We Reveal Our Contest Winner !

DON'T MISS THIS: Kevin Lyman, the founder of the Warped Tour is sharing his insights on building a career in today's music industry with a free Creative Live class that will be livecast tomorrow. Continue reading

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Total U.S. Music Sales Fall 5% In 1st Half Of 2014

For the first half of 2014, growth in revenues from music streaming services partially offset declines in digital download, according to a new report from the RIAA. But overall revenues were. Continue reading

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Giving Music Journalists Lead Time To Ensure Maximum Press Coverage

By Jamie Ludiwg from the Sonicbids Blog. When it comes to coverage, "lead time," or the amount of advance notice a publication needs to assign an article before its run. Continue reading

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Urban Outfitters Is World’s #1 Seller Of Vinyl Records

In the last few years, we've seen record stores selling more clothing to survive, but is the globe's top seller of vinyl records really a clothing store? Clothing retailer Urban. Continue reading

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Latin Grammy 2014 Nominations Announced

The Latin Recording Academy has announced the nominees for the 15th Annual Latin Grammy Awards. Eduardo Cabra of Calle 13 leads the field with 11 nominations; Calle 13 garners nine nods;. Continue reading

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AM NEWS BRIEF: Music Sales Fall 5%, Silicon Valley Hearts Music Jones, Raddio, Morrissey Merch & More

FRIDAY 9.26.2014 Music Business News & Views From Around The Web  CLICK HERE  Updated Continuously @ Hypebot's More News Tab 

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