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# More New Music Industry News: Rock Hall, Soundsnap, Payola Detective, ZumoDrive, MTVN & More
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/more-new-music-industry-news-4-2/
- Published: 2009-12-16T00:44:00.000Z
- Updated: 2009-12-16T00:44:00.000Z
- Description: The Stooges, Genesis, ABBA, the Hollies and Jimmy Cliff will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the shrine's 25th annual ceremony on March 15 at. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2009/12/more-new-music-industry-news-4-2.html]
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Conventions & Awards, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 11:03

- **[![image from earbuds.popdose.com](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e20128765aeecd970c-115wi)](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e20128765aeecd970c-popup?ref=hypebot.com) The Stooges, Genesis, ABBA, the Hollies** and **Jimmy Cliff** will be inducted into the **Rock and Roll Hall of Fame** at the shrine's 25th annual ceremony on March 15 at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York City. They'll be joined by **David Geffen** and a cadre of songwriters — Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil, Ellie Greenwich & Jeff Barry, Jesse Stone, Mort Shuman and Otis Blackwell – who will receive the Ahmet Ertegun Award for non-performers. The ceremony will be broadcast live on Fuse TV. ([Billboard](http://www.billboard.com/news?ref=hypebot.com#/news/stooges-genesis-abba-get-rock-hall-of-fame-1004053618.story))
- Free community driven sound library **[Soundsnap](http://www.soundsnap.com/?ref=hypebot.com)** has passed an amazing **500,000 registered users**.
- [![image from voxunion.com](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e20120a757f828970b-120wi)](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e20120a757f828970b-popup?ref=hypebot.com) A University at Buffalo researcher has invented **a statistical method**  
**that can detect payola-like corruption in the music industry**, a system  
that gives law enforcement an inexpensive statistical guide to identify  
potential music corruption and to better target more traditional and  
much more costly hands-on evidence-gathering. ([Science Daily](http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091215102115.htm?ref=hypebot.com))
- **ZumoDrive**, a Burlingame, Calif.-based developer of technology that **connects consumers to their content on any mobile device, has raised $1.5 million in new VC fundin**g. Sherpalo Ventures led the round, and was joined by return backers Tandem Entrepreneurs and VeriFone CEO Douglas Bergeron. ([press release](http://www.pehub.com/58137/zumodrive-raises-15-million/?ref=hypebot.com))
- Nokia **Comes With Music Package May Be Too Late** to Fight IPhone. ([Bloomberg](http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=ab4am%5FvVHwMI&pos=7&ref=hypebot.com))
- **MTVN** to Consolidate **Digital Music Sales** Teams ([ClickZ](http://www.clickz.com/3635903?ref=hypebot.com))
- **Music Business Heads Into Virtual World**…Lala/Apple, Spotify, etc. ([NY Times](http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/16/technology/internet/16tune.html?ref=hypebot.com))