HYPEBOT’S TOP MUSIC INDUSTRY STORIES OF THE WEEK
Marketing guru Seth Godin on "Getting And Keeping Fans" and "How The Beatles Became Famous And Why We Should Care". Concert Industry In For Tough Summer. Digital only release tops. Continue reading
Atty. Rob Falk’s Band Tool Box
Throughout our entire career we’ve seen great careers derailed and many dollars lost because miof sunderstandings that led to lawsuits. Even in the new music business – perhaps particularly in. Continue reading
Study Shows Digital Boom Causing Radio’s Demise
A new Bridge Research study directly fingers the digital boom for most of broadcast radio’s woes. In very stark terms the study found that: AM/FM radio listening among 18-34 year. Continue reading
Music Schools Sell Phantom Career
"An estimated 2,700 music performance majors graduate from American centers of higher learning every year. The usual number of jobs available: 160 or fewer." (The LA Times) And this is. Continue reading
Today’s Hypebot Music Indsutry Fast Facts & Figures
The Orchard announced a deal with Infospace that will make mastertones from it’s 800,000 track catalogue available to Infospace’s mobile partners including Cingular, Virgin Mobile USand T-Mobile and others extending. Continue reading
Apple Rumored To Buy EMI…And The Cow Jumped Over The Moon
From the UK’s Independent via Coolfer – "Takeover rumors did the rounds again yesterday, with more talk of a link-up with Warner Music…(stock market insiders)also speculated that Apple, the computing. Continue reading
Hypebot Music Indsutry Fast Facts & Figures
UK’s Guardian reports that the British music industry lost £414m ($726 million US) to illegal file-sharing on the internet. Recently 2,000 new anit-P2P lawsuits were launched across 10 countries. This. Continue reading
Three Niche Sites Swim Upstream Against The iTunes Tsunami
Three online stores that are fighting the iTunes tsunami and hoping for long lives by finding their own niches and serving them well, according to an article in the Village. Continue reading
This Week’s Coalition Of Indie Music Stores Chart
Label Pos. ARTIST | TITLE INT 1 YEAH YEAH YEAHS|SHOW YOUR BONE ATLG 2 T.I.|KING DEF 3 GHOSTFACE KILLA|FISHSCALE VRGN 4 HARPER*BEN|BOTH SIDES OF THE G. Continue reading
Indie Labels Warming To Podcasting But Majors Still Wary
From cNet News via RAIN "…to date, the major labels have been reluctant to license full-track songs to the podcasting community because podcasts are downloaded files free of digital rights. Continue reading
