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Sep 01, 2010
4 Strategies To Kickstart The Music Biz
This Billboard piece considers four key strategies that it thinks will help the industry prosper in the next decade: new alternatives to label financing; fan engagement through ticketing; better products and services; canny use of marketing and online tools.
Aug 31, 2010
Sony Rises To Digital-Media Challenge
Sony looks set use its PlayStation games consoles as the starting point for a new service that users will be able to use across a range of other internet-connected devices. That could include Walkman music players, Vaio computers, Bravia TVs, Blu-ray players and Sony Ericsson mobile phones.
Aug 31, 2010
Wrongfully Accused Of File-Sharing? File For Harassment
There are tens of thousands of people out there receiving letters from lawyers which demand payments to make potential copyright infringement lawsuits go away. Those wrongfully accused have been fighting back in a number of ways, and not without success. Now a team of lawyers is offering to coordinate a group action, with the aim of gathering compensation for victims through harassment claims.
Aug 31, 2010
BMG Has $500 Million To Spend
Over the next three years, BMG Rights Management will be receiving equity injections of €200 million ($254 million) from each of its shareholders - investment group KKR and media group Bertelsmann - to be used for further acquisitions.
Aug 30, 2010
Platinum Is So Passé. In iTunes Era, the Singles Count.
Mr. Cruz’s latest album, “Rokstarr,” has sold just 93,000 copies in 12 weeks, according to Nielsen SoundScan, and this week sits at No. 54 on the Billboard 200 chart. But while he has sold relatively few albums, he has sold 4.9 million copies of two singles from the album, “Break Your Heart” and “Dynamite,” and videos for those singles have been viewed more than 49 million times online. For his label, Mercury Records, that means he is a commercial success.
Aug 30, 2010
How The Web Changed Music Criticism
The blogger has the influence to encourage people to purchase music rather than said people illegally downloading it. What the mainstream publications fail to grasp is the connection within these communities.
Aug 30, 2010
Tesco Trials Music In 420 Petrol Stations With Faithless Release
Tesco is to ramp up the promotional campaign behind its exclusive Faithless album with a £100,000 burst of activity which will put CDs into 420 Tesco petrol stations for the first time.
Aug 29, 2010
iPod Hits A Sour Note As Apps Take Over
The latest sales figures for the quarter to June showed 9m sold – the lowest quarterly number since 2006. In short, the iPod, launched in October 2001, looks to be in terminal decline. While Apple is unworried – sales of its iPhone and iPad are booming – the drooping figures for the digital music player market are a concern for another sector: the music companies.
Aug 27, 2010
How The Record Labels Kill Off Innovative Startups With Ridiculous Licensing Demands
Throwing the baby out with the bath water - how innovation is strangled by major label demands.
Aug 27, 2010
RIAJ Reveals Weak Digital Sales In Japan
The Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) has released data for sales of digital music that shows the Internet download market growing. But mobile music slipped back, according to the results for January to June 2010.
