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Concert Simulcasts Increase in Popularity

May 4, 2010

The Met Tops 2.2M Season Tickets To Broadcasts The Metropolitan Opera has proven that simulcasts of concerts have a future. The company this season sold 2.2 million tickets for 9 HD telecasts to theaters this season, an increase of 400,000 from 2008-2009. Last Saturday's broadcast of Rossini's was seen by an estimated audience of 105,000 in ...

Column: Why Music (Really) Matters...

May 3, 2010

Kyle Bylin, Associate Editor (@kbylin) When watching the series of short animation films released by Music Matters, a UK-based collective formed to “remind listeners of the significance and value of music," I'm left with the overwhelming sensation that they are missing the point. That, by trying to educate people on why music matters, in ...

Apple Closing Lala 5/31. is iTunes in the Cloud Next?

May 2, 2010

Lala is shutting down The Lala service will be shut down on May 31st, 2010. Unfortunately, we are no longer accepting new users. That was the simple message posted on the lala.com home page last night. Does this mean iTune's in the cloud is nearing launch? And what does it mean for ...

Job Board: Berkleemusic Chief Marketing Officer

May 2, 2010

The Berklee College Of Music is using the Hypebot Job Board to find a Chief Marketing Officer will manage all aspects of marketing and business development for their online music school Berkleemusic and their growing social network at Berkleemusic.com. Experience in the music market is required as well as expertise with Internet and technology marketing and ...

TuneCore and Myspace Music Partner for Discounted Distribution Services

May 2, 2010

Flat fee digital distributor TuneCore has partnered with MySpace Music to offer discounted music distribution services to all the major download outlets. In addition, MySpace Music will provide participating artists a MyAds credit to market and promote on MySpace along with the additional marketing, sales data and other services of TuneCore. In the coming months, MySpace ...

Try Stoking Your Fans

May 2, 2010

This guest post comes from Ben Coe who is an artist coach and co-founder of music management and marketing firm The Artist Farm. His work there is designed to help artists of all types and levels succeed in clarifying and achieving their goals. The most effective marketing comes from word of mouth: and as you may ...

This Ad Captures the Perils of Indie Music Snobbery

May 2, 2010

Record Store Day Declared Big Sales Success

May 2, 2010

It was a great day for recorded music as sales surged during America's third annual Record Store Day on April 17th. Compared to the prior week, overall U.S. album sales in the independent sector increased 12% including a whopping 119% vinyl sales jump for the weekend and 529% growth in vinyl single sales, according to Nielsen ...

CD Baby Adds $9 Digital Singles Distribution

April 27, 2010

(UPDATED) Online independent music distribution service CD Baby has added a digital singles program. For a $9 one time fee plus 9% of net earnings, CD Baby will distribute a song to including iTunes, Amazon MP3, Rhapsody, Spotify, CD Baby and others. The company charges $35 plus 9% of net for full albums. No annual fee ...

David Pakman: Witnessing the Atomization of the Music Industry and What Do Do About It

April 27, 2010

We are witnessing the atomization and decentralization of the music industry, says David Packman, a partner at venture capital firm Venrock and former eMusic CEO. The music industry's best hope going forward is to decentralize music consumption as well. “We have been witnessing the atomization of artistic culture. The internet gives us far more ...