More New Music Industry News: Universal vs. iTunes, Pirate Bay Returns, Sirius, Shazam & More
Universal throws down the gauntlet to download stores. – Does Universal Music Group's declaration that new download stores have to innovate really mean they are happy with iTunes' domination? (Guardian)- How Facebook’s Privacy Problems Affect Music Discovery and Recommendation (Billboard.biz)
- As expected, The Pirate Bay returns. (CNet)
- Sirius XM Ups Its Estimate For Subscriber Adds By 50 Percent (paidContent)
- Shazam stats: 75m users and 1bn identified songs. (Music Ally)
- FYI, Pandora Makes Your Music Public (Wired)
- How To Make It As An Artist In The New Music Business (Huffington Post)
The Future Of Music Coalition is holding its annual D.C. Policy Day in Washington on Tuesday May 25th. They'll also be webcasting the event live.- To celebrate its 5th Anniversary (and 2 billion video vies daily)YouTube has created an interesting page of its top of its top videos. (YouTube)
- WORTHY CLICK: Not-ify is a tumblr blog that tracks Spotify's own
words to track their U.S. launch plans. Thanks to Hypebot reader Stu for
the tip.