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# More News: Amazon Up 51%, Indies #1, Orchard + Sharesquare, Rumblefish Hits 4M & Opens API
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/pm-news-update-amazon-sales-up-51-orchard-sharesquare-rumblefish-hits-4m-opens-api/
- Published: 2011-07-27T09:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2011-07-27T09:30:00.000Z
- Description: Amazon announced second quarter sales up 51% to $9.91 billion, It's the first quarter since added enhancements to Amazon Cloud Drive and Cloud Player including storage plans with unlimited space. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2011/07/pm-news-update-amazon-sales-up-51-orchard-shar
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Uncategorized, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 10:55

**[![HypebotFavicon](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e2014e8a284c10970d-50wi "HypebotFavicon")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e2014e8a284c10970d-popup?ref=hypebot.com) Amazon** [announced](http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=RssLanding&cat=news&id=1589161&ref=hypebot.com) second quarter **sales up 51% to $9.91 billion**, It's the first quarter since added enhancements to **Amazon Cloud Drive** and **Cloud Player** including storage plans with unlimited space for music, free storage for all Amazon MP3 purchases and Cloud Player for Web, now on iPad.

- Billboard Unveils New Market Share Statistics: **Indie Labels Are Number 1** ([A2IM](http://a2im.org/2011/07/26/billboard-unveils-new-market-share-statistics-indie-labels-are-number-1/?ref=hypebot.com))
- **Pandora #1 Once Again** In July Internet Radio Rankings ([FMQB](http://www.fmqb.com/article.asp?id=2246420&spid=1314&ref=hypebot.com))

**MORE:**

  
- **The Orchard** is partnering with **ShareSquare** to offer **QR code** based marketing to their artists.
- Rumblefish announced that it has passed 4 million soundtracks licensed and the general availability of its API which launched in private beta in Q1 2011,
- **The Warped Tour used Eventbrite** for pre-sale their Ventura, CA show and saw some very impressive results:  
  - 60% more pre-sale tickets online than last year
  - 81% of the tickets sold through Eventbrite-generated links were sold to first-time attendees.
- **Music Industry Wants To Put 'Red Lights' In Google** For Sites It Says Support Infringement ([Techdirt](http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110726/03263115256/music-industry-wants-to-put-red-lights-google-sites-it-says-support-infringement.shtml?ref=hypebot.com))