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
MySpace Crawls Toward A Sale
By all accounts News Corp wants to unload MySpace before it's fiscal year ends on June 30th and yesterday was reportedly the deadline for yet another round of bids. The. Continue reading
Music Gets Mobile: 34% Of U.S. Broadband Users Access Music On Their Phone
While 50% of U.S. broadband households prefer the computer as their digital music access point, the proliferation of smartphones, connected devices and cloud-based services are changing that. In 2010, 34%. Continue reading
Documentary To Chronicle The Rise And Fall Of Tower Records [VIDEO]
Tower Records was cultural icon. If you loved music and lived anywhere near one, Tower was your clubhouse. I remember visiting ToweR on my very first day in Boston to. Continue reading
Wednesday News: Film On iCloud, MTV + Tumblr, Google On Facebook, Artinsic, HFA, Hello & More
Apple is now also aggressively talking to film and tv companies in addition to music labels and publishers in advance of the official launch of its iCloud service on June. Continue reading
Lyor Cohen Says Salaries Of WMG’s “Transformative” Executives Justifies 360 Deals [VIDEO]
(UPDATED) In this interview, Warner Music Group head Lyor Cohen almost sounds like a man reborn in this new interview with Forbes' Zack O'Malley Greenburg. Critical of "the excesses of. Continue reading
Watch Topspin CEO Ian Rogers’ High School Band Rock Out To “Iron Man”
(UPDATED) Looking back, it may or may not turn out to be one of his prouder moments, but at our request Topspin CEO Ian Rogers (pictured here circa 2007) asked. Continue reading
Facebook Speeds Toward 700 Million Users. Where Are They Coming From?
Facebook continues to explode, and is now closing in to 700 million users. But much of the growth is coming from outside of the U.S. Brazil alone added 1.9 million. Continue reading
The Many Hats Of A Musician
Ever feel like you never have enough time to juggle the many hats of a musician trying to make it? Well, on Music Think Tank, Rich Gordon does not have. Continue reading
