What Will Fans Pay For?
This guest post first appeared on Debbie Chachra's blog zed equals zee. Debbie is a Cambridge, MA based academic, music fan, and geek, not always in that order. You can. Continue reading
Who Should Be On New Music Industry Twitter List?
Twitter's new Lists was created to help clear the clutter of too many tweets by allowing users to create and share a list of Twitter authors in a single stream. . Continue reading
More Music Industry News: Spotify Conversions, Beatles Down, Google Search, Legos, Thounds & More
It should be an interesting week ahead as The Orchard stock buy-back talks continue and the overall market reacts to economic news and earnings reports. It's also that start of. Continue reading
REWIND: The Music Industry’s Week In Review
The Orchard's shares doubled on stock buyout news. Did Qtrax tell another lie? Search deal with Baidu may be less than claimed. Falling traffic at MySpace will mean $100 million. Continue reading
Falling Traffic At MySpace Will Cut $100 Million From Google Ad Payments
stats via Alexa Falling traffic at MySpace will cost it $100 million in payments from Google ads according to estimates offered by executives of parent company News Corp. In 2006. Continue reading
Beatles Beat Back Bizaare BlueBeat Legal Defense
(UPDATED) Earlier this week, we reported that a little known U.S. based download site BlueBeat.com had begun selling previously unavailable tracks from The Beatles for just $.25. Everyone knew something. Continue reading
Lloyd Dobler “Mobler” Takes On NYC
Imagine a gaggle of trench coated indie rock nerds walk around NYC with blaring boom boxes helos over their heads and you've got a bit of the flavor of. Continue reading
More Music Industry News: Google Music China, Sirius, EU Backs Net Restrictions & More
Early Results From Google’s China Music Service (paidContent) The indie rock scene and record labels to support it are flourishing in Olympia, WA. (Weekly Volcano) Nokia gets some exclusives on. Continue reading
RealNetworks To Lay Off 70
Following a slightly profit report to shareholders last week that included a continuing downturn in subscribers to its Rhapsody music service, RealNetworks is laying of 70 or about 4% of. Continue reading
Did Qtrax Tell Another Lie?
Search Deal With Baidu May Be Far Less Than Qtrax Claimed The missteps by ad supported music download site Qtrax are legendary. In 2008, the company held lavish parties at. Continue reading
