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SoundCloud Launches Experimental Labs, Partners with Headliner.FM
SoundCloud has launched SoundCloud Labs, a site dedicated to experimental projects and features built on its API. The company also announced a partnership that enables a SoundCloud-supported mp3 streams directly in the Facebook feeds of Headliner.fm artist marketing campaigns With Labs, SoundCloud users can access prototypes and apps that extend the platform. “While creating new opportunities ...
How to Turn Free into Paid: Lessons from Evernote
We give away free music (or it's grabbed via p2p), but how can we eventually monetize it? Artists, labels and music marketers ask themselves that question every day. I preach to me Berklee students “give your music away free, but...." My “but" is to try to get something in return—an email adress, tweet or Facenook Like. ...
Nimbit Readies Upgrade of Direct to Fan Platform Free Private Beta Invites!
Nimbit is finalizing work on a new version of their NimbitFree direct-to-fan sales & marketing platform. While they're not quite ready to go live with it yet, the Nimbit team wants to broaden the scope of their private beta by letting you smart and music marketing savvy Hypebot readers in first to check it out. Just ...
Look Who's Running for the A2im Board
17 candidates are vying for five seats on the board of top U.S. indie music trade group the American Association of Independent Music (A2IM). The list looks like a Who's Who of the indie music business: 1. Joe Parker (ABKCO Records, Vice President) 2. Bruce Iglauer (Alligator Records, Founder/CEO) 3. Martin Mills (Beggars Group, Founder/CEO) 4. ...
Video: Spotify Says Hello to the iPod
Spotify today announced major upgrades that make the streaming music service more compatible with iTunes. In fact Spotify's hope is that users will switch to its new platform to manage their iPod and buy tracks from the new lower priced Spotify store. Playlists have always been central to the Spotify experience and today's changes also make ...
EMI Pulls Digital Rights from ASCAP in Radical Plan to Streamline Licensing
In a radical shift, EMI Music Publishing today announced that it is taking back the responsibility for licensing digital rights in North American from ASCAP. The performance rights society will continue to license EMI's performance rights for traditional media services, including television and radio stations. As digital music innovation has picked up pace, bundled rights and ...
How to Use Storify to Share Story of Musical Events
Storify, the buzzed about web service whose goal is to “make stories using social media", is now in public beta and . I spent a bit of time playing around with Storify as a tool to focus on a music related event—the release of country music group Whiskey Myers' new album Firewater. My goal was to ...
Rdio and the Echo Nest Partner to Encourage Music App Development
Music intelligence platform The Echo Nest has partnered with on-demand streaming music service Rdio to open a catalog of 8t million licensed songs and data to app developrs. To showcase the partnership, they've released Music Maze, a steerable music streaming service that traces similarities between millions of artists. Integration Rdio and The Echo Nest allows app ...
Digital Radio Paid Musicians $36 Million More Than Paid Subcriptions Last Year
Music streaming services like MOG, Rdio and Spotify may be the talk of the industry, but digital radio from Pandora to Sirius XM surpassed them in royalties paid to musicians and rightsholders for the first time last year. According to RIAA numbers, performance royalties from digital radio services grew 60% from $155.5 million to $249.2 million in ...
Amazon MP3 Explains Why It's Smart to Lose Money Selling 69 Cent Tracks
Last week Amazon began selling more that half the songs in its Top 100 for 69 cents. Industry observers speculated then that the internet giant cut prices (and according to our sources continues to pay labels regular wholesale) to grab market share from iTune's . But their strategy is more complex, according to Craig Pape, the ...
