Today’s Hypebot Music Indsutry Fast Facts & Figures

1. The Orchard announced a deal with Infospace that will make mastertones from it’s 800,000 track catalogue available to Infospace’s mobile partners including Cingular, Virgin Mobile USand T-Mobile and others extending The Orchard’s reach to 85 million new mobile subscribers.
2. NY Attorney General Elliot Spitzer – famous in part for his investigations of payola and price fixing – has received $40,000 in contributions to his gubernatorial campaign from the music industry including large contributions from board members of Universal and Sony BMG according to the NY Post.Dem Franchize Boyz reached 2 million downloads on its master ringtone catalog.
3. Sprint has hit 2 million over the air to cell downloads from its’ 400,000 song library..
4. The Capital RecordsTowercelebrated it’s 50^th birthday yesterday.
5. Seminal indie label Touch &  Go is celebrating 25 years.