A Tale of Two Industries: What Do Books and Music Have In Common?
Kyle Bylin, Assoicate Editor In recent news reports, it’s becoming more and more apparent — that at a time when the record industry is reeling from changes that it barely. Continue reading
Lost In A Sea Of 100,000 iPhone Apps
Apple announced this week that developers have created more than 100,000 apps for its App Store for iPhone and iPod touch customers in 77 countries. Users have downloaded two billion. Continue reading
New Weezer CD + An Official Snuggie Only $29.99!
Yes, this is a real product. River Cuomo told Rolling Stone back in May that he and his Weezer bandmates were in talks to produce an official “wuggie” version of. Continue reading
IFPI: “Illegal File-sharing Reduces Legitimate Sales” What Do You Think?
Global recording industry trade group the IFPI predictably responded to a new UK study that downloaders of unauthorized music also spend more money than average adding to their music collections. Continue reading
More Music Industry News: NARM Web Seminar Today, MySpace Troubles, RIAA Defaulters, No Doubt vs. Activison, FundTunes & More
If you are involved in marketing music, don't miss today's Music Consumer Behavior online seminar. Thanks to NARM, Hypebot has invites. Trouble @ MySpace: Losing Money and Traffic & Blowing. Continue reading
EMI Diversifies With Abbey Road Live Recordings
An expanded move by EMI into live concert recordings offers a glimpse both at a much needed revenue stream for record labels and an additional income source for many artists.. Continue reading
Topspin And Berklee College Partner For Online Music Marketing Course
Six months ago Topspin and The Berklee College of Music announced a partnership to offer an online course teaching implementation of the Topspin digital music marketing and sales platform. The. Continue reading
Foo Fighters Draw 440,000 To Web Only Concert
It's not quite the 10 million that YouTube says watched last week's U2 online concert, but 440,000 tuning in to see a net only concert by the Foo Fighters via. Continue reading
IODA Adds Labels To Distribution Roster
Digital distributor IODA has inked a number of new content deals. Labels include V2 Benelux, Union Square Music, Agriculture, Asian Man, Barge, Catsup Plate, Captured Tracks, Jade Tree and NooN. Continue reading
Echo Nest To Enhance MOG’s All Access
The Echo Nest will help power MOG's All Access music offering when it launched near the end of this month. Echo Nest is a proprietary machine learning platform that listens. Continue reading
