How Musicians Tour Green: Ditch The Van
Ben Sollee has taken up a great and interesting experiment; he wants to see if a non-athletic musician (himself) can take up a self-supported national bikecycle music tour and not. Continue reading
Universal Music Group Revenues Fall Again
For the first half of 2010, Universal Music Group's (UMG) revenues fell 5.4% compared to the same period last year (or 7.9% decline at constant currency). The label group blamed. Continue reading
Twitter Followers Get News From Today’s Apple Music Announcement First & What To Expect
Steve Jobs will take the stage for Apple's big music announcement at 10AM PT / 1PM ET today and Hypebot will be tweeting the news as it happens (@hypeot, sign. Continue reading
Music Not Apps Still Dominate iTunes
Despite the invasion of iPhone, iPod Touch and iPhone apps on iTunes, music still dominates the services. According to NPD re search, virtually all iPhone or iPod Touch users have. Continue reading
The Final Week Of The Hypebot Hit Song Contest
As Bruce noted in the more news section yesterday, this is the final week of the Hypebot Hit Song Contest. It looks like entries have rounded off since my last. Continue reading
Bandwidth Video: HeadlinerFM On The Future Of The Music Industry & Twitter’s Matt Graves On Subscription Services
In this next set of footage from the Bandwidth Conference, Danny Dee talks with Mike More & Bill Cromie of HeadlinerFM on the future of the music industry. Then, he. Continue reading
More Music Industry News: Sony To Launch Subscriptions, Pandora Mobile Soars, McFly, New MySpace Exec, Amazon, TuneIn & More
(UPDATED) Sign up to our Twitter feed for up to the minute updates from today's iTunes music announcements. We'll post a full update this afternoon. What will be announced? I. Continue reading
Interview: Rob MacArthur Of IOUmusic (Part Two)
Kyle Bylin: Artists too, those of the old and new digital sphere, share in this certain degree of dichotomy in their attitudes toward new technology and their willingness to integrate. Continue reading
How To Launch a Music Startup: Establishing Key Metrics
This post is part of the How To Launch a Music Startup series by Brenden Mulligan, which focuses on building a company that creates online products for musicians. Mulligan founded. Continue reading
Want A Global Hit? Spend More Time On Facebook.
Social networks are hugley popular in the US, but they are rapidly becoming even more so in other markets. According to Nielsen, the social network and blog category reached 74%. Continue reading
