Hypebot’s New Music Industry Briefing For Wednesday August 2nd, 2006
– RoyaltyShare aims to help labels and artists collect royalties over the dizzying array of digital platforms and takes only 1.5%. – USA-Today will publish a weekly page of Mediabase. Continue reading
New Revenue Source: Background Music While You Talk On Your Cell
If ring tones, ring tunes and ring backs aren’t enough for you, here comes background tones. It’s music playing in the background while you talk on your cell. Sounds annoying? . Continue reading
EMI Appoints Universal’s Billy Wragg To Head Digital
Barney Wragg has been appointed head of digital for EMI Music worldwide. Wragg was formerly senior vice president for Universal Music Group’s digital division, eLabs. In his five years at. Continue reading
Hypebot’s New Music Industry Briefing For Tuesday August 1st, 2006
– Barney Wragg has left Universal to head EMI’s digital efforts in the post recently vacated by Ted Cohen. (See above for full story) – The Allman Brothers and Cheap. Continue reading
Free MP3: “God Save The Internet” by The Broadband
"God Save The Internet" by The Broadband,an amusing take on the serious issue of net neutrality, is available as a free download. The Broadband is Kay Hanley, Jill Sobule, and. Continue reading
Live Nation Buys Musictoday
Live Nation has agreed to acquire a majority stake in Musictoday for an undisclosed sum, a leader in connecting artists directly to their fans through online fan clubs, artist e-commerce. Continue reading
Is Bebo The MySpace Music Killer?
Social networking site Bebo has added music community features and the initial response has been impressive with more that 25,000 bands and tens of thousands of fans jumping on the. Continue reading
Hypebot’s New Music Industry Briefing For Monday July 31th, 2006
– The Rolling Stones are offering short segments of sound board feeds via phone (cell or otherwise) live as the concert happens via Listen Live Now. Can $1.99 for seven. Continue reading
Packaging Music As A Product
"Music itself is not a product. A thing of beauty, a universal language, an outpouring essential to life and expression, yes – but not a product…More and more it attempts. Continue reading
EMI Links With Mashboxx P2P
EMI has signed a deal with Mashboxx to distribute it’s entire US catalog via legal P2P. Sony BMG also cut a deal with the service in late June. Mashboxx searches. Continue reading
