The Sandi Thom Story: Fraud Or Smart Marketing?
Thanks to Hypebot reader Alison Noise who tipped us off to what some say is the real story behind Sandi Thom’s month of nightly webcasts from her UK apartment that. Continue reading
CORNERSTONE ANNOUNCES MUSIC SUPERVISION DEPARTMENT
Lifestyle marketing firm Cornerstone has launched an in-house Music Supervision Department. With in-house expertise and a contact base of music experts including DJs, programmers, artists and labels, the music supervision. Continue reading
Can The Music Industry Get Beyond P2P And Piracy?
"Although about 3 million computers get sold every year in China, people don’t pay for the software. Someday they will, though. And as long as they’re going to steal it,. Continue reading
Payola Probes Make Tight Playlists Tighter
The latest payola probes by NY Attorney General Spitzer and now the FCC have not opened up radio playlists as some had predicted. Instead it has actually made them tighter. Continue reading
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
