Hypebot’s New Music Industry Briefing For Thursday September 8th, 2006
– Forging ahead of the majors again, indie digital distributor The Orchard has cut a deal with China’s leading digital distributor top100.cn. (Read the details in a press release after. Continue reading
Coalition Of Indie Music Stores Chart for 9-20-06
1 DYLAN*BOB|MODERN TIMES 2 MARS VOLTA|AMPUTECHTURE 3 TV ON THE RADIO|RETURN TO COOK 4 TIMBERLAKE*JUST|FUTURESEX/LOVE 5 MAYER*JOHN|CONTINUUM 6 YO LA TENGO|I AM NOT AFRAID OF 7 MASTODON|BLOOD MOUNTAIN 8 BLACK. Continue reading
WMG’s Bronfman’s Touts Digital Revolution And Predicts Ad Supported Future
Warner Music Group CEO Edgar Bronfman Jr. is again singing the praises of the net and digital music claiming digital growth has outperformed expectations. With words designed to be music. Continue reading
Yahoo! Offers Another MP3 Download. But Why Not Offer More?
Yahoo!Music chief David Goldberg has been very vocal that downloads should be DRM free mp3’s and he inches that agenda forward with a second major label mp3 offering. Disney’s Hollywood. Continue reading
Hypebot’s New Music Industry Briefing For Wednesday September 20th, 2006
– A first look at Microsoft’s YouTube competitor Soapbox. (cNet) – Sony Ericsson will launch a new service on its cells that would allow full song downloads call M-Buzz that. Continue reading
ReverbNation Builds Community By Empowering The Artist
Last week I had a chance to test drive music community and indie artist empowerment tool ReverbNation and was impressed by what I saw. Still in beta and launching October. Continue reading
Napster’s For Sale. Will Anyone Care?
Does this come as a surprise? With all of the existing and soon to be launched competition from both paid and ad supported services, what could Napster who has been. Continue reading
Hypebot’s New Music Industry Briefing For Tuesday September 19th, 2006
– New surveys show that only 5% of the tunes on most iPods come from iTunes (Inquirer) – USAToday took a good look at how the music industry is changing. Continue reading
WMG And YouTube To Share Content And Revenue
YouTube and Warner Music Group today announced an agreement to distribute WMG’s library of music videos as well as behind-the-scenes footage, artist interviews, original programming and other special content. In. Continue reading
Consumers To Suffer As Real & SanDisk Create Another Closed System.
Portable player maker SanDisk has teamed up with RealNetworks to create a new player designed to work in tandem with Real’s Rhapsody subscription and download service. Ease of use is. Continue reading
