Ticketmaster Gets Into The Fan Business
Ticketmaster has acquired a stake in Nashville based echomusic, an online fan club and brand management company with clients like Kelly Clarkson, Rascal Flatts, Dierks Bentley and Keith Urban. Ticketmaster. Continue reading
Arctic Monkeys Test Innovative Ticketing Solution
Indie rockers Arctic Monkeys are testing an enterprising ticketing initiative for their U.K. summer tour. Tickets for all dates will be distributed via a lottery system to fans who have. Continue reading
New Music Business Briefing: Slacker Snag, Gigtrack Launches, Indiestore Expands
>>> Could Slacker’s personalized portable radio hit a snag with licensing deals still pending with a few publishers and major labels? >>> Some of the best performances from last week’s. Continue reading
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
