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Nielsen Music 360 Report: Radio = Discovery, Youtube = Listening, Friends = Buying
Nielsen's Music 360 Report, based on a survey focused on music consumption, discovery and related topics, struck a chord with the press this week. In particular, the finding that radio is the top music discovery tool and that YouTube functions for many young people as a music streaming service is news to some and confirmation to ...
Breaking: Tunecore Releases CEO Jeff Price
TuneCore has pushed out both CEO Jeff Price and fellow co-founder Peter Wells from the company, first revealed publicly by an open letter sent out by Price himself. Details remain scarce, but it appears to stem from conflicts between the two and TuneCore's Board of Directors. The open letter from Price (below) suggests this was not ...
An Inside Look Into MTV's Next Big Thing: Artists.MTV
Not since the heyday of MySpace has there been one single go-to destination where music fans can get reliable information about musicians on every front. With so much content out there, and with many musicians' websites simply not providing an immersive enough experience, fans rely on search engines to find things that are dispersed all over ...
Internet Archive Distributing Free Music, Movies and Books Via Bittorrent
The Internet Archive is a nonprofit digital library that permanently stores a great deal of content. In particular their Live Music Archive includes a wide range of freely downloadable recording of live concerts by artists that have allowed their work to be included. Recently a partnership between The Internet Archive and BitTorrent was announced that allows ...
India Embracing Digital Downloads? Flyte Surpasses 600k Downloads in 6 Months
Back in February, India's largest web retailer Flipkart announced its entry into the world of digital music sales with Flyte. In less than six months, the service has already seen more than 600,000 cumulative downloads, and according to the company, is seeing nearly 5,000 downloads each day - accounting for 1% of Flipkart's overall revenue. Flyte currently offers ...
Soundexchange Releases List of Unclaimed Digital Performance Royalties
SoundExchange continues its mission of rewarding musicians with their unclaimed digital performance royalties by today releasing a list of 50,000+ artist and label names owed tens of millions of dollars in royalty payments. This list also includes more than $31 million in royalties that are three or more years old ranging from $10 to more than ...
Deezer Continues Expansion as Music Streamer Launches in Asia
Music streamer Deezer had launched in Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand bringing its total to 91 territories worldwide. Deezer will exist both as a standalone service in all three markets and through partner dtac in Thailand. With promised launches in Indonesia and the Philippines in the coming weeks, Asia offers a huge opportunity for the European-based streaming ...
Throwback: Beck Encourages Digital Fans to Engage with Analog Music
Last week, Beck announced that his new album wouldn't be released as a digital download, nor as a CD or a vinyl. Rather, the album Beck Hansen's Song Reader will be released in December entirely as individual pieces of sheet music by the publishing house McSweeney's. While the idea of releasing songs as sheet music is ...
Google Plus Launches 'Studio Mode' for Live Online Music
Guest post by Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. Remember when we wrote about how Google+ could steal music fans from Facebook if it figured out how to stream concerts using Google Hangouts, and everyone from our pals at Wired to CNN picked up on it? Well, it looks like Google was listening — or at least ...
We're All in This Together: How Technology Should Shape the Future of Live Music
Guest post by Matthew Moore (@MatthewrMoore). For years, artists have been trying to do anything they can to bring a different twist to the concert experience. Whether it's a stunning light show, going out into the crowd during a tear jerking rock ballad, or bringing people from the crowd onto the stage, they're doing whatever they ...
