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News: Music Industry

Glenn Peoples: The Freemium Debate

July 12, 2010

In response to an article in the Guardian on Clay Shirky and his opinion on news paywalls, Glenn Peoples over at Billboard has written a great summary of how the music industy's digital dilemma relates to that of the newspaper industry's. As well, he frames the discussion around the freemium debate: “One of the big questions ...

News: Music Industry

Why Music Should Never Be Given Away for "Free"

July 12, 2010

Over at our sister blog Music Think Tank, there are two new posts up. One is from Chris Bracco, editor of Tight Mix, on how to track the results of your attempts to get your music on blogs. The other, from Jon Ostrow, a co-founder of MicControl, is on the why music should never be ...

News: Technology

Social Music Service Twones Shuts Down

July 12, 2010

Amsterdam and Ukraine based social music service Twones has shut down. “We have tried several versions, iterations and models and it has been quite the ride," said an email sent late on Friday. “Now its time for a clean and fresh start." The engineering team, founders and technology are now a part of ...

News: Music Industry

Seth Godin on Payola and Music Marketing

July 8, 2010

Marketer Seth Godin published this interesting insight today on his blog: “For 20 years, the Billboard charts were easy to manipulate. By paying radio stations and some retailers, record labels could push an act to the top 40, which would increase sales. People liked buying what they heard on the radio, and the radio played what ...

News: Technology

Not so Neutral: Google, Bing, and Online Music Market

July 8, 2010

Both Google and Bing are searching for ways to position themselves as the best entertainment discovery tool. While Bing's offering is slightly more robust than Google's; it may not take them long--as recent rumors suggest--to catch up. Since, two weeks ago, the recording industry demanded that Google needs to stop linking to the Pirate Bay; it ...

News: Video / DVD

Video: Tom Conrad of Pandora Speaks at Digg

July 9, 2010

At the end of June, Tom Conrad, the CTO of Pandora, held a talk at Digg, where he outlines the difficulties and windfalls that the company experienced during their transition onto mobile devices. As Blogger Kent Rahman writes, the talk details 5 broad lessons the company learned in this time period, and how they affected Pandora's ...

News: Music Industry

Killola: How to Create Merch That Keeps On Giving

July 8, 2010

Garage-pop rockers Killola, joining forces with Aderra, a digital distributor of live concert recordings, have created USB Dogtags--that not only serve as a unique merch item to sell to their fans, but also provide the group with a another way to instantly connect with them. Fans who purchase a receive not only the band's new album, ...

News: Radio

Sirius XM Radio Now Has 19.5 Million Suscribers

July 8, 2010

Sirius XM Radio has now broken the 19.5 million subscribers mark. This makes sense. Well, sort of; it would make sense to my father. He and I recently got back from a 3,000 mile road trip, spending near entire days in the car, and since he can only tolerate so much of my music, we listened ...

News: Technology

Prince: "The Internet's Completely Over."

July 7, 2010

According to the artist commonly known as Prince, in an interview with the UK's Daily Mirror--the publication that will be giving away his new album 20TEN in a cover mounted promotion this week: “The internet's completely over. I don't see why I should give my new music to iTunes or anyone else. They won't pay ...

News: Technology

Eight Recent Social and Technical Phenomena

July 7, 2010

Over at our sister blog Music Think Tank, there are two new posts up. One is from Chris Taylor, a co-founder of MicControl, a music blogging network, on the 11 must-have iPhone apps for the musician on-the-go. The other, from Bruce Warila, is on the eight recent social and technical phenomena that are making your music ...