Kill The CD To Save The Industry, Study Advises
The music industry must move away from the retail CD as its primary revenue generator before Christmas 2009, according to a new Gartner study which says the reliance on revenue. Continue reading
Facebook Joins MySpace In Project Playlist Ban
Late last week MySpace responded to notices from the RIAA by banning all ProjectPlaylist widgets from its site. Yesterday Facebook followed suit. "The RIAA initially contacted Facebook last summer requesting. Continue reading
A Little Holiday Music Fun
14 Devastatingly bad Christmas songs. (Music Radar) Sing a Christmas duet with Elvis at Sony BMG’s Sing With The King. iBreath – a fully functioning iPod FM Transmitter add-on that. Continue reading
Wednesday’s Music Briefing: Major Label Hulu, SonyBMG De-Merger, Death Of The CD & More
HYPEBOT FEATURES: Facebook Joins MySpace In Project Playlist Ban Kill The CD To Save The Industry, Study Advises A Little Holiday Music Fun EU Prefers iTunes 2 to 1 But. Continue reading
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
