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Video: Pandora's Tim Westergren on Nightline

April 15, 2010

PRS for Music Partners with Myspace

April 14, 2010

The UK's PRS for Music which represents 65,000 songwriters, composers and music publishers has partnered with MySpace. The three main components are: Driving PRS Membership - using the MySpace service to communicate to new writers and musicians the importance of PRS for Music membership Benefits to PRS for Members - exclusive offers including songwriting master ...

Indie Labels March on Washington This Week

April 14, 2010

The American Association of Independent Music (A2IM), as a part of The Recording Academy's “Grammys On The Hill" event, will lead a delegation to Capitol Hill this week to advocate for a slate of issues of crucial importance to the independent music community. A2IM President Rich Bengloff and Vice President Jim Mahoney will be joined by ...

Full Text of Amazon's Scott Ambrose Reilly's Farewell Letter to the Music Industry

April 13, 2010

Scott Ambrose Reilly, Amazon's Sr. Manager of Digital Music is shifting gears to the company's Kindle team. On Friday, he sent this email to his peers in the record label community. (Also: Did Amazon Music Just Loose It's Soul?) Subject: Sad Eyes Dear friends and music business colleagues, On ...

Nimbit Names New CEO as Competition Heats Up

April 13, 2010

Direct to fan music marketing and sales platform Nimbit has brought in Bob Cramer as CEO. He's served on Nimbit's board of directors for 3 years, and will also continue to serve as its chairman. Co-founders Patrick Faucher and Phil Antoniades remain with the company with Faucher moving from CEO to the Chief Technology ...

The Barriers of Music Consumption: Past and Present

April 12, 2010

Kyle Bylin, Associate Editor -- Edited by: Refe Tuma of Creative Destruction There was a time when songs were songs. When there were the albums that you owned and those that you did not. When there was a distinct difference between the music that you liked and the artists that you didn't care for at ...

U.S. Consumes Music Differently on Smartphones Than in UK and Canada

April 10, 2010

A new Vision Critical study of music on smparthones in the US, UK and Canada, found major differences. While those in Canada and the UK are using apps on their smartphone or iPod Touch to listen to broadcast radio, U.S. users are more likely to listen to web-only radio and music streaming services. Pandora was the ...

Soundexchange Payments Jump 25%

April 10, 2010

SoundExchange sent out checks for nearly $52 million to artists and rights holders in the first quarter of 2010 marking a 25% increase from any previous quarter. The jump was came from an increase in satellite radio subscriptions caused by rising car sales, more radio stations streaming online, and the growth of Pandora and similar online ...

Are Cassette Tapes the New Vinyl?

April 10, 2010

“Sure, digital music is convenient, portable and pretty much free for the pilfering, but where's the fun in scrolling through lines of song titles listed alphabetically in the same font on a LCD screen?...A backlash to the ber-utilitarian ways of digital music has been underway for years with the rise of vinyl fetishism, but no one ...

A Student's View of Berklee's Topspin Course

April 10, 2010

This guest post comes from Brian Coughlin of the indie band Kinch. Brian just finished taking Berkleemusic's new Online Music Marketing With Topspin course and shares some of what he learned. While it's offered every semester, today happens to be the last day to sign up for this semester. A little background: A year ago, I ...