Napster Goes Social With Facebook, Twitter & More
Best Buy owned Napster has added social features to its paid subscription and download music service. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Flickr are all integrated to facilitate easy music sharing with. Continue reading
RealNetworks Post-Rhapsody Reports Small Profit From Lower Revenues
Q1 revenue fell 9% to $128.6M from $140.8M in the previous year quarter Net income of $3.2M or 5 cents a share vs. a net loss of $12.M or 10. Continue reading
Tunecore Adds Charts, Offers Impressive Sales Stats
Flat fee digital distributor TuneCore has added a weekly Top 20 Artists chart and Top 20 Songs chart compiled from iTunes daily trend reports. Along with the announcement came come. Continue reading
ReverbNation Adds Facebook Sharing Widget
ReverbNation has introduced a powerful yet simple to use widget that brings many the assets that artists have stored on RN including music and video onto their Facebook page and. Continue reading
More Music Industry News: Performance Royalties, Kin, Digg, Pearl Jam, Lala & More
Performance royalties are growing – both in dollar value and importance. (Glenn Peoples @ Billboard) Why isn't Verizon selling Zune Pass with its new Kin mobile music phone? (CNet) Analysis:. Continue reading
Bruce Warila: Every Major Artist Is Failing As An Independent Media Channel & What To Do About It
This guest post from music tech entrepreneur and philosopher Bruce Warila (@brucewarila) is excerpted from a piece on the informative Music Think Tank blog. With minimal exceptions (taylorswift.com at #14,077),. Continue reading
WMG Offers Mixed Financial Report, Digital Sales Up
In a report to investors this morning, Warner Music Group showed a loss for the quarter ending March 31st of $25 million or 17 cents a share. That's down significantly. Continue reading
Nielson Offers More Proof Of MySpace Decline, As Facebook & Twitter Soar
Compared to user activity on social networking sites last year, Facebook and Twitter posted gains of 69% and 45% respectively in the U.S. Globally, the total minutes spent on social. Continue reading
Diddy Does Video to Pre-Hype His New Blog
Its a video to pre-promote the new diddyblog.com that’s part of the media, fashion and music empire of Diddy (aka Sean “Cross Promotion Is My Middle Name” Combs). His new. Continue reading
