Secondhand Serenade Breaks New Single Exclusively Through SoundHound App
Secondhand Serenade has collaborated with SoundHound, a song identification app developer, to release a new version of his song "You and I.” For three days, it will be available exclusively. Continue reading
New Music Seminar Confirms Speakers For LA Event
New Music Seminar has released their initial list of confirmed speakers, session topics, and focus for their upcoming conference, set to take place at the NMS Revolution Hall, February 14. Continue reading
Music Industry News: iTunes Goes 90, Stern Stays, Ditto Scores, Spotify, RevernNation Places & More
Apple's iTunes is finally, slowly increasing the size of its song samples to 90 seconds. (MM) 1) Yawn. 2) Why hasn't Amazon done it too? Howard Stern is sticking with. Continue reading
Video: Spotify CEO Careful Not To Upset Labels
Here's a video of Spotify CEO Daniel Ek speaking at the recent D:Dive into Mobile conference. If you've been following the Spotify story closely, in watching this interview, there's not. Continue reading
RealNetworks To Step Back Into Music With Unifi Digital Cloud Locker
Ever since spinning off it's Rhapsody Music service, the exit of longtime chief Rob Glaser and left a with a gaming service and products like RealPlayer that are declining in. Continue reading
MySpace CEO Is Not Interested In Selling Music
Some surprising news from the CEO of a company openly for sale by parent NewsCorp for not producing profits: “My goal is you come to MySpace, you listen to some. Continue reading
Ticketfly CEO: New Business Opportunities Emerged From Ticketmaster, Live Nation Merger
Recently, I spoke with Andrew Dreskin, who is CEO of Ticketfly, an independent ticketing and social marketing platform. In this interview, Dreskin talks about the talent bubble in the live. Continue reading
Why Google’s New Chrome Web App Store Matters To The Music Industry And Music Fans
Yesterday Google announced a new Chrome Operating System and an Apps store to go with it which debuted with just 23 music apps. But the store should quickly garner participation. Continue reading
The Kindie Music Scene: Marketing Music To Kids
This is part two of my interview segment with Debbie Cavalier, who's a children’s entertainer and vocalist for Debbie and Friends, a kindie music group. She's also Dean of Continuing. Continue reading
70% Thumbplay Users Stop File-Sharing Their Music.
What stops fans from file-sharing music? According to a new study released by Thumbplay, a cloud-based music service, 70% of their users stopped file-sharing music upon engaging with Thumbplay Music.. Continue reading
