Hypebot’s New Music Business Briefing For Monday October 9th, 2006
– Tower Records will close after inventory is sold over the next 6 weeks. 3000 will loose jobs. (Hypebot, Hollywood Reporter)) – Google reportedly in talks to buy YouTube. Continue reading
Why Don’t Kids Buy More Downloads? Because The Can’t.
Why don’t teens buy more downloads? One reason is that they can’t. Julien McArdle writing on PCWorld.ca pointed out this obvious but often overlooked fact: download purchases require a credit. Continue reading
Tower To Be Liquidated
After what was reportedly an intense 30 hour auction, venerable music retailer Tower Records will be liquidated. Liquidators Great American beat music retailer Trans World by $500,000 paying $134.4 million. Continue reading
New Music Business Briefing For Friday October 6th, 2006
– Starbuck’s Hear Music titles to be available via iTunes. (Reuters) – Sony Bertlesmann appeal EU commission’s move for annulment. (Washington Post) – Jump in download sales may finally be. Continue reading
David Byrne On Tech Revolutionizing The Muisc Industry
Ahead of his keynote address before this weekends Future Of Music Policy Summit, former TalKing Head David Byrne gave the Montreal Gazette his view of how technology is revolutionizing the. Continue reading
Tower Auction Today. TransWorld And Radius Seen As Top Bidders
Today is auction day for Tower Records (more) and according to HITS Rumor Mill: It’s looking more and more like the Tower auction will come down to Trans World Entertainment. Continue reading
Best Buy, Real And SanDisk Join To Challenge iPod/iTunes
Retail giant Best Buy, portable player maker SanDisk and music and software provider Real are joining forces in the latest attempt to compete with the widely successful iTunes and iPod. Continue reading
Sirius Topped XM Subscriber Growth But Wall St. Punished Both
Sirius topped XM in subscriber growth for the 3rd quarter of this year gaining 441,101 net new listeners for a total of 5.1 million. Their target for the end of. Continue reading
Hypebot’s New Music Business Briefing For Thursday October 5th, 2006
How Live Nation and the concert industry is making more while selling fewer tickets. It’s not just higher ticket prices. (Pittsburgh Post Gazette) Ludacris and Janet Jackson top the charts. Continue reading
CIMS Indie Store Top 200 for 10-4-06
TW LW CIMS TOP 200 ALBUMS 1 1 DYLAN,BOB MODERN TIMES 2 D SCISSOR SISTERS TA-DAH 3 D LUDACRIS RELEASE THERAPY 4 D SPARKLEHORSE DREAMT FOR LIGHT YEARS IN THE. Continue reading
