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# Rewind – The Music Industry’s Week In Review: Apple, Twitter, YouTube, Spotify, Google & More
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/rewind-2-2/
- Published: 2011-03-26T11:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2011-03-26T11:00:00.000Z
- Description: Hypebot publishes a weekly roundup of music business news each Saturday. For breaking news also follow @hypebot on Twitter. Apple is pushing to launch their cloud service in April. Twitter turned 5. Here's 5. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2011/03/rewind-2-2.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).*

- **Apple** is pushing to launch their **cloud service** in [April](https://www.hypebot.com/apple-pushing-to-launch-music-locker-in-april/).
- **Twitter** turned 5\. Here's **5 ways** that it changed [music](https://www.hypebot.com/as-twitter-turns-5-five-ways-its-changed-music/).
- German **YouTubers** are protesting against major [labels](https://www.hypebot.com/german/).
- Hypebot asks, "Is the **shared music experience** [a niche](https://www.hypebot.com/is-the-shared-music-experience-a-niche/)?"
- **Bruce Houghton** has 5 great takeaways from SXSW [2011](https://www.hypebot.com/my-top-takeaways-from-sxsw-2011/).
- **Music recommendation engines** aren't satisfying [fans](https://www.hypebot.com/music-recommendation-engines-not-satisfying-fans/).
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- **Spotify** was attacked; it has since pulled **third party** [ads](https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2011/03/spotify-fights-online-attack-pulls-ads-off-site-.html).
- Study shows that **UMG** is still the dominate major label.
- **Google** is tests music [service](https://www.hypebot.com/google-has-begun-testing-google-music-but-labels-still-have-not-agreed-to-additonal-use/). Why labels should [approve](https://www.hypebot.com/3-reasons-labels-will-say-yes-to-google-music/).
- **Musak,** a background **sound provider,** sold for $[345M](https://www.hypebot.com/muzak-sold-for-345-million/).
- **Canada** continues to beat the US is digital music [growth](https://www.hypebot.com/canada-beats-us-in-digital-music-growth/).
- How do **classic acts** use social media? Do they [engage](https://www.hypebot.com/older-acts/)?
- **MySpace** site traffic is continuing to race to the [bottom](https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2011/03/myspace-traffic-falls-off-cliff-chart-.html).
- Robin Davey says **RCDDEALS** matters more than [Spotify](http://www.typepad.com/site/blogs/6a00d83451b36c69e200d8341c59fd53ef/post/6a00d83451b36c69e20147e3640127970b/edit?saved=e&ref=hypebot.com).
- Study shows the demise of **Limewire** cut music [piracy](https://www.hypebot.com/new-study-shows-limewire-demise-cut-music-piracy/).
- Rapid growth in **social network** stats may not [continue](https://www.hypebot.com/study-dont-expect-rapid-growth-in-your-social-netowrks-to-continue/).
- Hypebot asks, "If **cloud music** booms, do musicians [lose](https://www.hypebot.com/if-cloud-music-booms-do-musicians-lose/)?"
- **Facebook** kicks **20,000 underage fans** off its site each [day](https://www.hypebot.com/facebook-kicks-20000-potential-fans-off-every-day/).
- **Sick of Sarah** gets downloaded 1M times on [BitTorrent](https://www.hypebot.com/sick-of-sara-goes-platinum-via-bittorrent/).
- Supreme court refuses to hear UMG's **Eminem** [lawsuit](https://www.hypebot.com/supreme-court-refuses-to-hear-universal-music-eminem-royalty-lawsuit/).