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Zune Slips To #5 As Player Wars Heat Up

Zune slipped to 5th place in the race for portable player sales in the all important shopping week after Thanksgiving. It’s not good news for Microsoft and comes after deep. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 12/06/2006 in Uncategorized | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Hypebot’s New Music Business Briefing For Wednesday’s December 6th, 2006

> IODA digital distribution has added Dave Mathews owned ATO, Koch, Barnaby, Ecstatic Piece and blues label Blind Pig to it’s growing label roster. (press release) > Veteran Philadelphia area. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 12/06/2006 in Uncategorized | Permalink | Comments (0)
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RIAA Petitions For Lower Songwriter Royalties

The music business is changing in many fundamental ways and that has given the RIAA and member labels an opening to ask a panel of copyright judges if they can. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 12/05/2006 in Major Labels | Permalink | Comments (1)
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Azureus Leads BitTorrent In Broadly Competitive Field

The controversial official BitTorrent application was found on only  2.76% of desktop computers worldwide in October while BitTorent client Azureus could be found on 3.2% . The rest of the. Continue reading

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Live Nation CEO & CFO Live On Web Today

Live Nation’s CEO Michael Rapino and CFO Alan Ridgeway will be live on the web at 1:30 EST today from the 34th Annual Global Media & Communications Conference in New. Continue reading

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This Week’s UK Indietore Picks

Fake Sensations – ‘Nostalgia’/’Forget Tomorrow’The irresistible Fake Sensations make a very welcome return to the indiestore chart with two corking new tracks. We’re big fans of their charming electro loveliness. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 12/05/2006 in Music Marketing | Permalink | Comments (1)
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Hypebot’s New Music Business Briefing For Tuesday December 4th, 2006

> WMG‘s head Edgar Bronfman Jr. admits his  seven kids download music illegally. (video and transcript via Reuters Second Life) Please, please send the RIAA police to his house. Pretty. Continue reading

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EMI To Reject Bid

EMI will reject a recent bid by private equity firm Permira of $4.92 billion as too low. (Reuters UK)

Bruce Houghton on 12/04/2006 in Major Labels | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Windows Media, iTunes and Limewire Remain Music Apps Of Choice

Windows Media Player hit a global installation level of 67.5% in October up from 64.1% a year ago and iTunes was on 26.3% of desktops up from 19.7% last year.. Continue reading

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Live Nation Stock Jumps

Stock in concert giant Live Nation jumped $1.61 or 7.5% late last week to $23.05. It has ranged from $10.55 to $24.90 over the past year. The reason for the. Continue reading

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