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# Rewind – The Music Industry’s Week In Review: Facebook, Hello Music, Josh Freese, Pandora & More
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/rewind-1/
- Published: 2011-04-09T11:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2011-04-09T11:00:00.000Z
- Description: Hypebot publishes a weekly roundup of music business news each Saturday. For breaking news also follow @hypebot on Twitter. A guide to how artists can make the most of Facebook. Hello Music and GroopEase. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2011/04/rewind-1.html]
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Hypebot publishes a weekly roundup of music business news each Saturday. *For breaking news also follow [@hypebot](http://www.twitter.com/hypebot?ref=hypebot.com) on [Twitter](http://www.twitter.com/hypebot?ref=hypebot.com).*

- A guide to how **artists** can make the most of [Facebook](https://www.hypebot.com/how-to-make-the-most-of-your-facebook-page/).
- **Hello Music** and **GroopEase** launch [daily](https://www.hypebot.com/hello-music-launches-daily-deals-for-musicians/) music deal [sites](https://www.hypebot.com/groopease-launches-indie-music-daily-deals-site/).
- Study says **Facebook** has little influence over online [buying](https://www.hypebot.com/facebook-is-not-the-sales-tool-youd-hoped-chart/).
- The **Grammy's** have reduced **award categories** down [to 78](https://www.hypebot.com/grammys-cut-31-categories-indies-hit-hardest/).
- **iPhone** apps are popular, but **Android** is [gaining speed](https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2011/04/thinking-just-an-iphone-app-think-again-android-is-exploding-.html) too.
- Have **musicians**, not music, become a manufactured [product](https://www.hypebot.com/the-diy-musician-when-artists-become-the-product/)?

**MORE:**  

- **Hypebot** wants to publish your artist marketing case [studies](https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot-wants-to-share-your-case-studies/).
- Drummer **Josh Freese** will be releasing another [tiered album](https://www.hypebot.com/fuck-freemium-devo-drummer-josh-freese-strikes-again-with-75000-fan-offering/).
- **Pandora** has been subpoenaed in a mobile apps [investigation](https://www.hypebot.com/pandora-subpoenaed-in-federal-grand-jury-mobile-apps-investigation/).
- Since, **Pandora** has been caught transmitting user [information](https://www.hypebot.com/pandora-caught-transmitting-personal-info-user-location-to-advertisers/).
- Should **Apple** and **Google** be worried about Amazon's [cloud](https://www.hypebot.com/9-reasons-apple-and-google-should-be-worried-about-amazon/)?
- Bylin has a **must read essay** on the new digital music [ecology](https://www.hypebot.com/chaos-we-can-stand-attitudes-toward-technology-and-their-impact-on-the-new-digital-ecology/).
- **Teens** have little interest in paying **99 cents** from [digital songs](https://www.hypebot.com/only-22-of-high-schoolers-consider-paying-99-a-song/).
- Is **Weezer** a band or have they evolved into a [brand puppet](https://www.hypebot.com/weezer-band-or-brand-puppet/)?
- **HOW TO**: Make the most of any **music industry** internship.
- **Songza** has retooled its service as a **social radio** [destination](https://www.hypebot.com/songza-retools-as-social-radio-video-demo/).
- How music sales would've faired without **Napster's** [accent](https://www.hypebot.com/record-industry-profits-if-napster-never-hit-chart/).
- **Splother** is a brand-new click to play sync licensing [service](https://www.hypebot.com/click-to-pay-sync-licensing-platform-for-music/).