EU Prefers iTunes 2 to 1 But Amazon Gaining Share
European broadband consumers who regularly listen to music on computers and MP3 players are twice as likely to purchase music from iTunes than from any other online store according to. Continue reading
10 Musicians I Want To Invite To My Holiday Party
Leonard Cohen – Talk about intelligent cocktail conversation Ozzy Osbourne – Is it really a party without Ozzy? Ziggy Marley – Somebody has to bring the…. Ray Lamontagne – I. Continue reading
Tuesday’s Music Briefing: Philly Rocks, Gaming $’s, MOG Struggles & More
The Philadelphia Daily News and Inquirer newspapers have launched a local music site prequency. A look at how video games are providing significant income streams for artists and much smaller. Continue reading
SonyBMG Signs On With Project Playlist
Project Playlist, who late last week had its widget banned from MySpace at the request of "major music companies", today announced an agreement with SONY BMG for both audio and. Continue reading
Music’s Long Tail Just Got A Lot Shorter
173,000 of the 1.23M albums available sold at least 1 copy last year That means 85% of albums did not move a single copy all year. 80% of of all. Continue reading
What The RIAA Doesn’t Want You To Know…
The RIAA is telling us they’re going to stop suing and get internet service providers to help them stop illegal file sharing. The RIAA says that it’s worked for the. Continue reading
Labels Force Content Off YouTube And MySpace
DEVELOPING STORIES: UPDATED: Over what should have been a slow pre-holiday weekend two stories broke that again put the major labels at odds with several major Music 2.0 companies. Here. Continue reading
Will I See You At MidemNet Or Midem?
I’ll be attending my first Midem and MidemNet in quite awhile both to do business and help host MidemNet as member of its Visionary Char Committee. (I didn’t choose the. Continue reading
Monday’s Music Briefing: Rick Rubin, meebo, Predictions, Pump Audio & More
HYPEBOT FEATURES: Labels Force Content Off YouTube And MySpace SonyBMG Signs On With Project Playlist Music’s Long Tail Just Got A Lot Shorter What The RIAA Doesn’t Want You To. Continue reading
Warner Music Pulls All Content From YouTube
Unable to renegotiate the share of ad revenue it sought, Warner Music Group has pulled all of its content from YouTube. Affected are thousands of songs and artists from WMG’s. Continue reading
