New Music Industry Briefing For Friday June 9, 2006
As had been expected Steven Greenberg will end his 18 month run as president of Columbia Records today. (Billboard.biz)
– iPods and time on Facebook are more important than drinking beer according to survey of 600 college students. (USAToday)
– CD trading site LaLa has officially opened and announced the creation of the Z Foundation which will fund health care for musicians from 20% of LaLa’s revenue. (LaLa.com)
– Wal-Mart may reverse or loosen a policy of banning CD’s that carry the "parental Advisory" sticker according to some reports. (Spin)
– Congress is increasing FCC indecency fines ten-fold.
– Another class-action lawsuit claims Clear Channel used it’s radio power to boost Live Nation concert ticket prices. (Plains Dealer)
– Live Nation to bring the UK’s popular Download Festival to Dublin, Boston, and San Francisco.
– Billboard’s Ray Waddell writes about soft initial ticket sales on the new Dixie Chicks tour (Billboard/Reuters)
R.I.P – ICE Magazine
There is another cool site where you can trade DVD’s for 99 cents, called PeerFlix.