REWIND: The Music Industry’s Week In Review
A key UK government body has recommended against the Live Nation Ticketmaster merger. On Friday Wall Street reacted sending Ticketmaster's stock downward. Nobody Cares About You Like You Care About You…So. Continue reading
More Music Industry News: Virgin’s Not-Unlimited, How Low Can We Go?, Twitter Search & More
Virgin launches Music Unlimited without unlimited music - Big label paranoia strikes again. (Register) From The Digital Music Forum West: How low can the music industry go? Analysts speaking at Digital Music. Continue reading
More Music Industry News: Mobile Music, Sirius Stock Sale, Bug Music, Russell Gets Richer & More
Can Device Integration Save Music Journalism? (Epicenter) Interview: RCA/Jive’s Sean Rosenberg: Labels Are The Scapegoat For Mobile Music’s Woes (MocoNews) Five top executives at Sirius XM have reportedly sold off seven. Continue reading
Overheard At The Future Of Music Summit Day 3
Daniel Ek of Spotify and Casey Rae Hunter of FMC: Casey: What role do you think Spotify might play in artists revenue streams? Daniel: not sure this is going to. Continue reading
7digital Launches In US With 77 Cent Downloads
UK based download store 7digital launched in the United States yesterday with albums priced aggressively at $7.77 and single track downloads at $.77. All are DRM free mp3s and encoded. Continue reading
Midem Adds Showcase For Digital Music Startups
I tipped you off to this several weeks ago, but now its official. Midem has launched its new technology showcase dubbed MidemNet Labs and named the judges who will sift. Continue reading
More Music Industry News: Perez Can’t Sell Tix, Public Enemy Fan Funds, Pirate Bay Stumbles & More
Perez Hilton’s ambitious concert tour dogged by apathy. (Fan Fare) Is anyone outside of WMG surprised that being a snarky gossip blogger does not transalte into ticket sales? Public Enemy. Continue reading
Napster: If You Can’t Sell It, Give It Away
Napster & Dell Join Forces For Free Promotion Paid music subscription services have had troubled gaining the traction that many in the industry had hoped for. In an attempt to. Continue reading
REWIND: The New Music Industry’s Week In Review
Digital distributor The Orchard pink slipped 20% of it's staff as CEO Greg Scholl exited. Company moral and its stock both took a dive. Twitter is testing a major new. Continue reading
New Ad Supported Music Downoad Site FreeAllMusic.com Gets Seed Funding
PLUS A Q & A With CEO Richard Nailling Free All Media has secured seed funding to launch its FreeAllMusic.com ad supported free digital music service in late 2009. The. Continue reading