Hypebot’s New Music Business Briefing For Thursday November 2nd, 2006
– SoundExchange wants a whopping 10% of revenue increasing to 23% by 2012 for performance royalties from XM and Sirius. The sat services offered 1/10th of that. (Washington Post) –. Continue reading
Coalition of Independent Music Stores Top 200 for Week Ending 10-29-06
Pos. ARTIST|TITLE 1 MY CHEMICAL ROM|BLACK PARADE,T 2 BECK|INFORMATION 3 DYLAN*BOB|MODERN TIMES 4 LEGEND*JOHN|ONCE AGAIN 5 BRIGHT EYES|NOISE FLOOR (RARIT 5 DECEMBERISTS|CRANE WIFE 7 KILLERS|SAM’S TOWN 8 CONVERGE|NO HEROES 9. Continue reading
SongSpot’s Free Song Widget Teams With Blog Giant Typepad
Sonific has launched TypePad Music Widget which empowers TypePad bloggers to quickly and easily select any full-length track from Sonific’s large catalog of more than 50,000 songs, and instantly add. Continue reading
BusinessWeek Names 3 Music Companies To 25 Best Young Entrepreneurs List
Three music business start-ups have been named to BusinessWeek’s Top 25 Young American Entrepreneurs. To qualify you have to be 25 or younger. Elliott Breece, Joshua Boltuch and Elias Roman. Continue reading
Hypebot’s New Music Business Briefing For Wednesday November 1st, 2006
– The Department Of Justice has approved concert giant Live Nation’s purchase of House Of Blues (Pollstar) – With the EU unlikely to agree to a merger with WMG or. Continue reading
MySpace & YouTube Content Take Down Continues
MySpace has announced a deal to use Gracenote’s filtering technology to block unauthorized music from the site. (press release) Exactly how Gracenote filters and allows copy written material that may. Continue reading
Universal Drops Euro Catalog Download Prices
Universal is dropping the European pricing on 1500 classic albums including titles from The Who, Stevie Wonder, Bob Marley and others. These titles will now sell for about 6.99 euros. Continue reading
Hypebot’s New Music Business Briefing For Tuesday October 31st, 2006
– First Robbie Williams, then Korn, now dead people. In a deal that actually makes sense EMI has entered into a partnership with the Dean Martin Trust to act as. Continue reading
9 Nominees Top Weak 2007 Rock ‘n Roll Hall Of Fame List
This year’s 2007 nominees to the Rock ‘N Roll Hall of Fame are Van Halen, R.E.M., the Stooges, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Patti Smith, the Dave Clark Five,. Continue reading
9 Nominees Top Weak 2007 Rock ‘n Roll Hall Of Fame List
This year’s 2007 nominees to the Rock ‘N Roll Hall of Fame are Van Halen, R.E.M., the Stooges, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Patti Smith, the Dave Clark Five,. Continue reading
