Music Marketing

Mercury Prize Nominees Announced

The Arctic Monkeys have instantly become favorites to win an unprecedented second Mercury "Album Of The Year" prize with today’s nominations. The nominees are: Arctic Monkeys – ‘Favourite Worst Nightmare’. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 07/17/2007 in Music Marketing | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Live Music Goes Green

Live Earth is not the only place where music and the environmental movement are coming together. Green Mountain Energy and Sustainable Waves, a provider of solar powered sound and staging,. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 07/16/2007 in Music Marketing | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Can Merch Save Music?

With record company advances and regular royalty checks a thing of the past, I know many bands for whom selling merchandise on the road is the difference between a profitable. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 07/13/2007 in Music Marketing | Permalink | Comments (0)
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InGrooves/ONE Digital’s Jason Kadelc On Fanning The Promotional Fire

We’re working on a series on innovative digital distributors like TuneCore and INgrooves/ONE Digital.  Just to give you a taste of some of the great stuff coming up, here is. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 07/12/2007 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (2)
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b5media Launches Music Blog Network

Today popular blogging network b5media is launching a diverse cluster of 30 music related blogs. "Since b5media first launched in September of 2005, we’ve felt the music scene was being. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 07/09/2007 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (5)
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MySpace TV Launches

MySpace is chasing YouTube with the launch today of a separate video, MySpace TV, that will feature both user-generated and other content that can be viewed without an account on. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 06/28/2007 in Music Marketing | Permalink | Comments (0)
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The Beasties Go Viral For “Mix-Up”

Never ones to be caught behind the curve, The Beastie Boys have gone viral to promote their surprisingly addictive new all instrumental release "The Mix Up". The campaign includes a. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 06/26/2007 in Music Marketing | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Sonific Songspot Widget Adds 125K Songs To Library

Sonific has added 125,000 new songs to its library so that SongSpot widget users can choose from 200.000 licensed tracks to easily generate the code for a music player and. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 06/26/2007 in Indie Music | Permalink | Comments (2)
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Majors Steal Indie Moneymaker And Get It Wrong Again

Forbes online takes a interesting look at how several major labels are creating new imprints to release new CD’s by classic artists. (Forbes) Indies like Koch have been making money. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 06/26/2007 in Indie Music | Permalink | Comments (1)
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YouTube Goes International

YouTube is adding localized versions of its video sharing website in nine new countries – Brazil, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain and the UK. Steve Chen, YouTube’s. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 06/19/2007 in Music Marketing | Permalink | Comments (2)
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