Hip Hop Business News From ProHipHop
From ProHipHop Vanilla Ice hosts TurboTax’s Tax Rap contest. Promotional activities continues for this week’s release of El-P’s new album I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead with a video for the. Continue reading
HELP SAVE INTERNET RADIO!
A new much higher royalty rate which could cause the demise of many internet broadcasters is finally beginning to gain attention in the mainstream press even as broadcasters formulate their. Continue reading
IODA Partners With DownlaodCentric For Direct To Consumer Downloads
Digital distributor IODA has partnered with DownloadCentric to offer its labels direct to consumer download services that can be placed on band and label web sites. This follows last week’s. Continue reading
New Business Briefing: Major China Music Portal, David Byrne At SXSW, Indies Join MyStore & More
>>> Portal Sina.com joins with SonyBMG, Universal, EMI, WMG and Rock Records to build a major Chinese digital music platform offering both net download and cell content. >>> David Byrne. Continue reading
EU Blasts iTunes. Broader Review Looms.
EU Commissioner Of Consumer Protection Meglena Kuneva blasted Apple and iTunes this weeks. ""Do you find it reasonable that a CD will play in all CD players, but an iTunes. Continue reading
New Music Business Briefing: DMX Goes Indie. Is Cover Art Back? Sprint Drops Sirius & More.
UPDATED – >>> DMX is opening up the 500+ channels of music it provides to cable networks, hotels and other business to independent artists via a new web site GetYouPlayed.com. Continue reading
Study Measures Brand Awareness Across Digital Music Landscape
Amid growth in portable MP3 player sales and speculation over the sustainability of a la carte music downloads, Ipsos’ new TEMPO Digital Music Brandscape study shows that iTunes continues to. Continue reading
Coalition of Independent Music Stores Top 200 for Week Ending 03-11-07
Pos. ARTIST | TITLE 1 ARCADE FIRE|NEON BIBLE 2 WILLIAMS*LUCIND|WEST 3 AIR|POCKET SYMPHONY 4 SHINS|WINCING THE NIGHT AWAY 5 STOOGES|WEIRDNESS 6 SON VOLT|SEARCH 7 GRIFFIN*PATTY|CHILDREN RUNNING 8 BRIGHT EYES|FOUR WINDS. Continue reading
How To Pretend You’re At SXSW
>>> Did you blow your entire yearly travel budget with a trip to MIDEM or PopKomm and can’t make it to SXSW? Still don’t want to miss all of the. Continue reading
Nettwerk’s Terry McBride Live From SXSW Today On KCRW
LA’s eclectic KCRW-FM is devoting a lot of airtime to SXSW both on its broadcast and internet only streams. Morning Becomes Eclectic host Nic Harcourt is there all week and. Continue reading