Remake, Remodel – The Major Labels Speak
We have heard from DIY artists, but have not heard much from the major labels outside of Billboard and Music Week. On Music Think Tank, Tim London has posted a. Continue reading
News Brief: TN Music Crime Law, Sony Net Up, iPhone + Twitter, Cavallo, Da Kid, Google +1 & More
A new Tennessee law would make it a crime to use a friend’s login – even with permission – to listen to songs or watch movies from services such as. Continue reading
More News: Spotify Biz Dev Head Leaves, PBS Tupac Hackers Target Sony, GigaTools, Sonos & Mixcloud
Spotify’s global head of business development, Faisal Galaria, has exited just as the company inches closer to deals with Facebook and all four US labels. LulzSec, the hackers who took. Continue reading
Increasing Site Referrals & Engagement With Facebook’s “Like” Button
Facebook has become extremely important for marketing music on the web and the "Like" button remains the core tool for encouraging fans to spread the word. Danny Sullivan at Search. Continue reading
Who Uses Twitter? New Pew Internet Survey Results
13% of online adults use the status update service Twitter as of May 2011. That represents a big increase from the 8% of online adults who identified themselves as Twitter. Continue reading
Mark Mulligan: How Zuckerberg Is Using Music To Keep Facebook From ‘Doing a MySpace’
This guest post comes from independent music analyst Mark Mulligan.. Facebook is rumoured to be on the verge of integrating a number of music services including Spotify into its platform. . Continue reading
New Online Listening Rooms Reintroduce The Shared Music Experience
This guest post comes from Eliot Van Buskirk, a longtime technology writer for Evolver.fm, CNET, Wired and other publications, two-time book author, and frequent guest on NPR and other media. Continue reading
Twitter Launches One Click Follow Button For Sites
Twitter has launched a new one click Follow Button for web sites. Previously, site publishers had to direct users off their sites to their accounts on Twitter.com. You can see. Continue reading
Lady Gaga Week #1: The Impressive Numbers
Universal Music Group intiital projections were just 400,000. 1,108,000 copies of the album sold in week #1 The biggest opening week performance since 2005 when 50 Cent's The Massacre sold. Continue reading
