Hypebot’s New Music Business Briefing For Friday October 27th, 2006
– The Eagles and Wal-Mart have formed a "strategic marketing partnership". (press release) But really, it’s all about the music… – Sony BMG gave its quarterly report to Wall Street.. Continue reading
Exclusive Interview With CEO Of China’s Download Leader Top100.cn
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW PART 1 – Emerging markets are seen as huge areas of potential growth for the music download industry. Piracy has slowed down some players, but digital distributor The. Continue reading
Hypebot’s New Music Business Briefing For Thursday October 26th, 2006
– According to one analyst content is still king driving the evolution in consumer electronics. (Electronic News) Tell Hypebot hat you think. – Russia does not seem ready to shut down. Continue reading
Hypebot’s New Music Business Briefing For Wednesday, October 25th, 2006
– Hacker DVD Jon is interviewed on his new venture that will market software that will enable vendors to "sell copy-protected songs that play on the iPod, and another that. Continue reading
This Week’s IndieStore UK Picks
The Cadets ‘Songbook’ Like the boys say, when you come from Penge in south east London the only way is indeed up. By the sounds of it, this lot are. Continue reading
THIS IS NOT A JOKE: Boy Scouts Launch Respect For Copyrights Merit Badge
OK we respect and understand the value of music and the need for the creators to get paid for their efforts as much (maybe more) than the next guy…but an. Continue reading
Indie Urban Download Site Chondo Launches
From the Chondo.net front page: Explore the Black music revolution at Chondo.net….Discover a progressive new world made up exclusively of sermons and Black music from hip hop to neo soul;. Continue reading
Hypebot’s New Music Business Briefing For Tuesday October 24th, 2006
– Weird Al Yankovich credits the internet, free downloads from MySpace and YouTube with giving him his first top 10 hit ever. (Billboard, TechDirt) – An interview with hot music. Continue reading
iPod Turns 5 Today & What It All Means
What a difference five years makes. Apple was in danger of fading to black. The major labels were fat with dollars gained by fans converting collections to CD and all. Continue reading
Hypebot’s New Music Business Briefing For Monday October 23rd, 2006
– More specific iPhone rumors surface. If they are half true the device seems pretty amazing. (NoHeat) – Neil Young is remixing his recent "Living With War" for a Nov. Continue reading
Major Label Seeks Web Developer
Posted late last week – "Warner Bros. Records needs a kick-ass PHP/MySQL/etc web developer for a contractor position. We need to fill this immediately. Here is what we need: A. Continue reading