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Zimbalam Moves into U.S. Challenging Tunecore

March 13, 2010

European flat fee digital distributor Zimbalam has entered the U.S. market with a product offering aimed straight at sector leader Tunecore. For $29.99, about $10 - $15 less than Tunecore, Zimbalam distributes an album to 25 key outlets including iTunes, Amazon, eMusic and Spotify. Like Tunecore, artists keep 100% of the royalties. ...

Improve Your Facebook Pages with RootmMusic

March 13, 2010

RootMusic enables the seemless creation of robust Facebook band pages and then allows fans to add thew artist as a tab to their own existing Facebook Page. And unlike standard Facebook pages where the music stops when the fan begins any other activity; with RootMusic, they can listen while they read news, comment,etc. Artists can also ...

EMI Loses to Pink Floyd in Online Sales Battle

March 13, 2010

A UK judge has ruled that a mid 1990's contract between Pink Floyd and EMI that includes maintaining the artistic integrity of each album release does not allow EMI to sell single tracks on iTunes and other online outlets. But the court stopped short of making EMI pull the tracks down. An EMI statement said: “Today's ...

New Music Seminar NYC Expands to 3 Days in July

March 13, 2010

Amazon's Daily Deal Skirmish Offers Reminder of Apple's Power over the Major Labels

March 11, 2010

According to recent reports, Apple has been aggressively discouraging labels from participating in Amazon MP3's Daily Deal. Feature a new release there, the labels have been told, and your release will get no promotion at all on iTunes. Being an aggressive competitor is nothing new for Apple. It's also common for labels for show a preference ...

Rovi's AMG + Muze = Music Mega Meta Data

March 10, 2010

Rovi Corporation (the corporation formerly know as Macrovision) has added a new music data offering that combines music metadata from its AMG and Muze services, creating a superset of data from both acquisitions.The combined database includes more than 1.8 million pop and classical music albums and 16 million tracks, The new database, Rovi Music, ...

40% Can't Name a Single Online Music Service

March 10, 2010

From 7 Digital to Spotify, there are 20 major music servicesin the UK. But a new survey says that 40% of consumers have never heard of any of them. Of the 60% who are familiar with digital music, 85% have only heard of two - iTunes and Amazon. “The music industry is shooting itself ...

Watch Rip: A Remix Manifesto Free Online

March 9, 2010

Snag Films is an innovative site that offers 1000+ documentaries available for free streaming and RIP: A Remix Manifesto has just been added to an extensive collection of music related films. In RIP, filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores issues of copyright in the information age, mashing up the media landscape of the 20th century and ...

Guest Post: With Mixtapes and Social Media, is the Album so Far Gone?

March 9, 2010

Alex Mann is the director of Trendrr, a business intelligence platform for social and digital media. You can read more by Alex on his blog here and follow him on Twitter here. At first glance, Drake's success as an artist appears similar to his hip-hop peers. The actor turned Grammy-nominated rapper performed at the 2010 Grammy ...

Music Could Mean $300 Million to Isp's Says Study

March 9, 2010

A new study titled “Is There A Commercial Argument For ISP Music Services" commissioned by the BPI and carried out by industry analyst Ovum, concludes that if the if the top ISPs in the UK embraced music subscriptions, they could generate new revenues of 103 million ($106M US) by 2013. The study used a medium adoption ...