More Music Industry News: Cheaper Tickets?, YouTube Revamp, End Of iPod Era & More
The End of the Road?: The concert business, a lone bright spot in the struggling music industry, is in trouble this summer. A tale of bad backs, canceled acts and angry. Continue reading
MySpace Music Is Burning Money, Possible Subcription Service In The Works
Before the end of the year, MySpace Music, having "underachieved" with regard to revenue goals, is considering launching paid subscription service. Sources say they are in need of moving to. Continue reading
Album Leaks: Are Tuesday’s Gone With The Wind?
TIME ran a story this morning on album leaks; the topic is interesting to me because it highlights a shift that happened within my lifetime. Prior to the web and. Continue reading
Baym: Changing Relationships, Changing Industries
Communication scholar Nancy Baym, who has been interviewed on here before, recently gave a great talk at Harvard's Berkman Center. In it, she talks about how the music industries, in. Continue reading
Gaga Power, The Rules For The Grammys Change
Due to a technicality, Lady Gaga was ineligible for the nomination of best new artist at this year's Grammys -even though she was the most popular artist of 2009. Since. Continue reading
New Music Seminar Announces Updated Conference Schedule & Speaker Line Up
New Music Seminar has announced an updated schedule and speaker line up for its New York City summer conference from July 19th to 21st at Webster Hall. The conference will. Continue reading
Now You Can Buy Twitter Followers, But Will Any Become True Fans?
Several services including Twitter1K and Followers For Sale have begun selling new Twitter fans by the thousands an at least one experienced internet marketer Jonathan Volk claims to have increased. Continue reading
SoundScan Starts Counting Loudbytes Merchandise Plus Download Packages
Loudbytes has been experimenting with selling t-shirts, buttons, mugs and other music merchandise with download codes attached. Now Loudbytes downloads will be counted by SoundScan alongside sales at iTunes, Amazon. Continue reading
More Industry News: Pirate Bay Hacked, Guvera + The Orchard, INgrooves, EMI Publishing & More
The Pirate Bay Hacked, Users Exposed – A group of Argentinian hackers have managed to gain access to The Pirate Bay’s admin panel through a security breach. Via the backend. Continue reading
Sirius XM Radio Now Has 19.5 Million Suscribers
Sirius XM Radio has now broken the 19.5 million subscribers mark. This makes sense. Well, sort of; it would make sense to my father. He and I recently got back. Continue reading
