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More New Music Industry News: UK Singles Sales, Metadata, MIDEM Keynotes, Melodeo & More

UK singles sales reach record high. – Thanks to the success of downloads, the UK singles market had its best year ever in 2009, with more than 150m copies sold.. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2010/01/more-new-music-industry-news-3.html]

  • UK singles sales reach record high. – Thanks to the success of downloads, the UK singles market had its best year ever in 2009, with more than 150m copies sold. (Guardian)
  • image from www.papermag.com From CES: Storage Industry try to make sense of music metadata. (PC World)
  • Pharrell Williams, Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter and producer of such artists as Justin Timberlake and Usher and MXP4 CEO Albin Serviant have been added as one of the keynotes at MIDEM 2010.
  • Greg Rollett from GenYRockstars has created a free report (in exchange for your email address) of 100 Resources For Indie Musicians.You've got to figure that a guy who recommends reading Hypebot everyday is pretty smart. The list includes some great resources and can also serve as a checklist to make sure you haven't forgotten anything. 
  • Mobile music technology provider Melodeo is looking for a buyer. (Billboard)
  • Pioneer and Pandora are bringing internet radio to cars. (VentureBeat)
  • Music publishers force another lyric site offline. (Techdirt)
  • Record labels should only blame themselves for filesharing woes. (MediaPost)