REWIND: Music’s Week In Review

• iTunes finally added variable pricing raising hit tracks to $1.29 and lowering some to 69 cents.  Rhapsody and Napster followed, but Amazon and WalMart kept prices lower except on Sony tracks.
  • The mainstream media missed most of the story.
  • Commentary: The Labels Miss Another Opportunity
• Universal Music and You Tube are planning the VEVO online music video channel.
• EMI launched online music research community "Your SoundCheck" in beta.
• Yahoo! Music added Artist Pages.
• Two artists find success by working hard and asking for it.
• New column "You Can Always Go Back To School". Indie label entrepreneur Virgil Dickerson of Suburban Home Records decided to give away a new release entirely for free and then share the results.
• ReverbNation launches FanReach Pro email program with analytics for musicians and labels.
• The Grateful Dead combine Blurb on demand publishing and concert photos for a unique project.
• The Future Of Music Coalition wants to rewrite rules of the music industry.