A Music Critic Takes An Honest Look At His Own Profession
"If column inches translated into commercial success, the many young darlings of Canada’s contemporary indie-rock scene would be living like kings and queens." As the gap between what’s popular and. Continue reading
Another Manager Speaks Out On The Death Of Major Labels & The DRM Devil
Nettwerk Management’s Terry McBride is no longer a lone wolf howling against what he sees as the uselessness of major labels and the devil called DRM. The UK’s Peter Jenner. Continue reading
Hypebot’s New Music Business Briefing For Monday November 6th, 2006
– Strong rumors are circulating again about Amazon readying a new download service. Stay tuned… – Taking a chapter from The Tipping Point, early adopters the indie rock crowd are. Continue reading
Victory Sues EMI & Virgin Over Hawthorne Heights
Victory Records has sued Virgin Records and EMI claiming they attempted to poach Victory’s biggest act Hawthorne Heights. Hawthorne had filed suit in August to end their contract with Victory.. Continue reading
Hypebot’s New Music Business Briefing For Friday November 3rd, 2006
– Prince is extending his brand to Las Vegas with the opening of 3121 Jazz Cuisine (named after his latest album) inside The Rio where he will perform every Friday. Continue reading
Zuzula Offers Artist Download Stores With No Upfront Costs
Newly redesigned Zuzula offers online tools that allows musicians to set up an mp3 download storefront without any upfront costs. From now until December 31st artists earn $.81 per song. . Continue reading
iTunes Expands. eMusic Contracts.
ITunes has added Latino a major new section with "hundreds of thousands of Latin and international music tracks" plus videos, podcasts and more. Current iTunes stats: 3.5 million songs 65,000. Continue reading
Cingular Teams With XM, Yahoo!, Napster and eMusic.
Instead of starting their own competing music service Cingular is smartly teaming with XM for 25 commercial free channels (XM press release) plus downloads from Yahoo! Music, eMusic and Napster. Continue reading
Hypebot’s New Music Business Briefing For Thursday November 2nd, 2006
– SoundExchange wants a whopping 10% of revenue increasing to 23% by 2012 for performance royalties from XM and Sirius. The sat services offered 1/10th of that. (Washington Post) –. Continue reading
Coalition of Independent Music Stores Top 200 for Week Ending 10-29-06
Pos. ARTIST|TITLE 1 MY CHEMICAL ROM|BLACK PARADE,T 2 BECK|INFORMATION 3 DYLAN*BOB|MODERN TIMES 4 LEGEND*JOHN|ONCE AGAIN 5 BRIGHT EYES|NOISE FLOOR (RARIT 5 DECEMBERISTS|CRANE WIFE 7 KILLERS|SAM’S TOWN 8 CONVERGE|NO HEROES 9. Continue reading
