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# Monday’s Music Briefing: Ad Supported Slump, Playlists, Facebook Music, EMI.com & More
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/mondays-music-2/
- Published: 2008-12-29T00:03:00.000Z
- Updated: 2008-12-29T00:03:00.000Z
- Description: HYPEBOT FEATURES: Harvard Class Tries To Raise Curtain On RIAA Trial A Video Mashup Of The Top 25 Hits Of 2008 A Review Of Last Week’s Top Music Industry News. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2008/12/mondays-music-2.html]
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Uncategorized, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 11:03

**HYPEBOT FEATURES:**

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**[Harvard Class Tries To Raise Curtain On RIAA Trial](https://www.hypebot.com/harvard-class-t/)**
- **[A Video Mashup Of The Top 25 Hits Of 2008](https://www.hypebot.com/a-video-mashup/)**
- **[A Review Of Last Week’s Top Music Industry News](https://www.hypebot.com/music-week-in-r/)**
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- **Bad News For Ad Supported Music**: A look inside the **ad sales slump** at a MySpace and Facebook. ([paidConten](http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-digging-in-to-myspace-and-facebooks-projected-slump-in-ad-sales/?ref=hypebot.com)t)
- **Satellite radio is still looking for its pay day. (**[NY Times](http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/business/media/28radio.html?ref=business)) *With internet broadcasts going wireless I wonder if it will ever come.*
- **UK retails chain Zavvi falls into administration.** [(Reuters](http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content%5Fdisplay/industry/e3i13db0577bde6c55b4af2a85e63a7d3cd?ref=hypebot.com))
- An **op-ed on Project Playlist** and how it might be a **boon to the record labels that are suing it**. ([LA Times](https://www.hypebot.com/emicom-relaunch/)) *"The record companies too need to join entrepreneurs in the* **[![Facebook_music](https://spcdn.shortpixel.ai/spio/ret_img,q_cdnize/www.hypebot.com/hypebot/images/2008/12/28/facebook_music.jpg "Facebook_music")](https://www.hypebot.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2008/12/28/facebook%5Fmusic.jpg)** *marketplace, not the courtroom." I agree.*
- **LaLa** appears may be in the lead to **power Facebook Music**, but big questions remain. ([Venture Beat](http://venturebeat.com/2008/12/26/lala-leads-bid-for-facebook-music-service-but-questions-loom/?ref=hypebot.com))
- "**What happens to the musi**c itself **when the way to build a career** shifts from recording songs that ordinary listeners want to buy to **making music that marketers can use?**" asks Jon Pareles in the [New York Times](http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/arts/music/28pareles.html?ref=hypebot.com).
- Scott Cave of [Red Velvet/Rook Interactive](http://www.redvelvet.com/?ref=hypebot.com) writes convincingly that **the new [EMI.com](https://www.hypebot.com/emicom-relaunch/) is in part an affirmation that its a fertile climate for indie music** on his [Red Velvet blog](http://blog.redvelvet.com/2008/12/emi-does-indie-labels-service.html?ref=hypebot.com).
- **Book publishers** face the same challenges in the new marketplace that the record labels do, but this author believes it **may weather the digital storm much differently**. ([Motley Fool](http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2008/12/26/this-endangered-business-model-will-survive.aspx?ref=hypebot.com))
- **The Year In Music & Branding.** ([Soundcheck](http://blogs.wnyc.org/soundcheck/2008/12/17/the-year-in-music-and-branding/?ref=hypebot.com))