More Music Industry News: RapidShare CEO Out, MXP4 Gets $4M, Anti-Piracy Deal & More
RapidShare Ditches CEO Bobby Chang – RapidShare’s CEO Bobby Chang has left the company with immediate effect. The Switzerland based file-hoster announced that Chang, who headed the company for years,. Continue reading
Facebook Partners With Pandora For Social Music
Pandora and Facebook will be deeply integrated according to an announcement at the F8 Developer Conference today. using Facebook’s new Open Graph protocol, Pandora will stream music directly onto the. Continue reading
TuneUp Adds Windows Media Player Support & Social Features
50 Hypebot Readers Get Free TuneUp Gold Worth $29.95 TuneUp, a really useful app that cleans up digital music libraries "automagically" today added support for Windows Media Player (WMP). New. Continue reading
Nimbit Expands Direct To Fan Toolkit With NimbitPro
At the ASCAP Expo in Hollywood today, direct to fan services provider Nimbit announced the addition of nimbitPro, an improved suite of tools and services designed to allow artists and. Continue reading
Paul McCartney Rejects EMI, Takes Catalog To Indie
(Updated) It was not the news that a struggling EMI wanted to hear. Yesterday Sir Paul McCarthey revealed that he'd re-release his post-Beatle catalog through indie Concord Music Group. EMI. Continue reading
iLike Founders Leave MySpace Executive Team
The founders of social music service iLike, which MySpace acquired last year,are leaving the company.'s executive team. Hadi Partovi will depart MySpace completely and his brother Ali will now work. Continue reading
The ‘Broken’ System: Deconstructing Consumption
Kyle Bylin, Associate Editor (@kbylin)Edited by: Refe Tuma (@refeup) of Creative Deconstruction In our previous post we wrote about the barriers of music consumption, gave an overview of how those barriers shaped the experiences. Continue reading
Video: The Band vs. The Promoter
As someone who has spent most of his time in the industry working in the live music sector running booking agency Skyline Music, I know first hand that the relationship. Continue reading
This Week’s iTunes Top 10
For the week ending April 19, 2010 Top 10 Singles: 1. "Nothin' On You (feat. Bruno Mars)," B.o.B2. "Hey, Soul Sister," Train3. "Break Your Heart (feat. Ludacris)," Taio Cruz4. "Airplanes. Continue reading
