3 Reasons Why Soulja Boy’s 2.5 Million Twitter Followers Netted Only 13,000 In First Week Sales
The theory that Twitter can help sell music suffered a body blow recently when Soulja Boy's 2.5 million Twitter followers bought just 13,000 copies of his new album in it's. Continue reading
What’s Ahead For 2011? Jonathan Ostrow: Social Charts Will Flip The Music Industry On It’s Head
(Updated) As we end the year, Hypebot asked some our favorite thinkers, writers, and friends to answer two questions – one looking forward and the other back. Here Jonathan Ostrow,. Continue reading
Social Music Gaming App For Facebook Causes 15,000 Fans To Play With Songs For 15 Minutes
DJ and producer David Guetta has released a new Facebook PUMP IT game for his single 'Who’s that Chick?', powered by MXP4’s music gaming solution. During the app's limited beta. Continue reading
What’s Ahead For 2011? Dave Cool Says Google Music Could Be A Game Changer
As we end the year, Hypebot asked some our favorite thinkers, writers, and friends to answer two questions – one looking forward and the other back. Here Dave Cool, director. Continue reading
Music Biz News: Livewire Buys FoneStarz, OurStage + NMS, Record Industry Lobbying $’s Pay Off & More
Livewire Mobile, a developer of mobile music apps and content, has acquired FoneStarz Media Group, a UK mobile digital storefront and content supplier. Music discovery site OurStage is teaming up. Continue reading
Bob Marley Sells Out, Competition & Pricing, Microfunding, And The 50 Most Read MTT Posts
This week on Music Think Tank, we explore selling out and microfunding. Dmitri Vietze posted about Bob Marley and selling out which caused a debate among the MTT community. According. Continue reading
Rewind: Daniel “Homeless” Mustard Gets Signed, Best Hypebot Posts Of 2010, Music Start-Ups & More
Daniel "Homeless" Mustard gets a record deal and turns life around. Hypebot analyzes the state of Grooveshark and online music streaming. Miranda Burnett interviewed OK Go in file-sharing and viral. Continue reading
iTunes Dominance Of Digital Music Growing
Apple's iTunes dominance of digital music sales continues to grow according to a new NPD Group study. The market leaders share of online music sales rose to 66.2%, from 63.2%. Continue reading
10 Christmas Gift Ideas For Old-School Record Execs
Next week, things around the record industry will be winding down. Just in case you've run out of gift ideas as to what you should get the record executive in. Continue reading
Guess Which 7 Music Videos Have Collectively Been Viewed More Than 1.5 Billion Times… “Baby”
We're not saying the results are surprising. We're not even that this is "good" music. What we're saying is that the fact that these 7 videos on YouTube garnered +1.5. Continue reading
