Music Busines Miscellany
Because we don’t want Hypebot readers to miss anything… >>> Rumors are growing a Police reunion. >>> Were hearing both from the US and abroad that EMI is preparing to. Continue reading
Survey Shows Online Driving Music Discovery, Download Sales & Concert Tickets
A new Digital Media Association survey shows that digital music consumers listen to more music, enjoy more new music, talk more about music and attend more concerts than they did. Continue reading
UK’s 7digital.com’s Top ’06 Sellers
The UK’s 7digital.com has announced it’s top selling downloads and artists of 2006. Leading the singles chart is Leona Lewis with "A Moment Like This" which sold 571,253 copies. Top. Continue reading
The Sky Is Falling! Major Label To Offer Catalog As MP3’s? Limewire Goes Legit?
If you can get passed its new password protected wall (an interesting move at a time when most content providers are taking their walls down) Digital Music News has two. Continue reading
Sirius Ends ’06 Up 82% And Profitable
As merger rumors with XM continue to swirl, Sirius Satellite Radio ended 2006 with approximately 6,024,000 subscribers, an 82% increase over the company’s 2005 ending base of 3,316,560. Based on. Continue reading
More Jump On MP3 Bandwagon
We declared several weeks ago that 2007 would be the year that labels would finally embrace or at least seriously experiment with unrestricted mp3’s. After all, 2006 was the year. Continue reading
A Post Holiday Compendium Of Recent Top Stories
Just in case you need a little help catching up with industry news as you climb out of your post-holiday stupor… >>> Even with growing digital sales it was a. Continue reading
Is It The End For Hypebot’s New Music Business Briefing?
We’re considering dropping our daily briefing news round-up in favor of more short news stories. Part of the motivation is to report things as fast as we find out about. Continue reading
Is Somethng Rotten At Apple?
Early last week Apple’s iTunes seemed to be suffering from too much of a good thing. Post holiday shoppers overwhelmed the download store causing slowdowns and error messages. By week’s. Continue reading
Three Ad Supported P2P’s To Debut. Who Cares?
Forbes has taken an in depth look at three legal ad supported P2P’s set to debut in the coming months – Qtrax, Spiral Frog and Mashboxx. Each company has their. Continue reading
Two Top Execs Exit Digital Music Group
Publicly traded Digital Music Group, a digital distributor of music and video announced today that COO Anders Brown and VP of Development Richard Rees have resigned their respective positions. Brown. Continue reading