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Midem Continues

January 26, 2010

Monday #MIDEM I hosted the afternoon of MidemNet yesterday and lead a great panel on Monetization and Live Music. You can check out videos of it and all the other panels here. Some companies to pay attention to: MusicDNA (think mp3 on steroids) MOG (this real comer hosted well attended party last night with DJ ...

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MIDEM 2010 so Far

January 25, 2010

They say they numbers are down about 10% over last year to closer to 7000 attendees, but on the streets and cafes it seems as busy as always. They included admission to MidemNet in the MIDEM badge this year, so numbers their appeared to be up. A few highlights and impressions: MySpace really appears to get ...

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Action Begins #midem: The Artist's Perspective

January 24, 2010

On the artist's panel Amanda Palmer told about how sharing her frustration with her record label - i.e. when they told her she looked fat in her photos - cemented her relationship with her fans. Palmer opened with ukulele and a short version of Radiohead's “Creep". Watch Palmer remains constantly connected with her fans. She ...

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#Midem: Global Music Consumption Survey

January 24, 2010

8500 interviews in 13 countries 63% are passionate about music 14% would listen to music every minute of the day if they could. Streaming a favorite delivery method for 21% 29% admit to downloading without paying 30% bought a CD in the last month 11% bought a download within the month Video ...

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Replay: Narm's How to Make Money with MP3s

January 23, 2010

Neurotic Media Jan 14 Online Seminar from NARM on Vimeo Last week NARM sponsored an online seminar Successful Digital Deployments That Enhanced Retail Sales Growth And Marketing Strategies. It attempted to answer the question “How can you make money in the MP3 download space when margins are slim and ...

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Tunecore's Price Takes On Silverman's Conclusions

January 23, 2010

Earlier this week, industry vet Tom Silverman shared an analysis of Nielson numbers shows the small number of artists that had broken through the 10,000 unit sales mark in the-post internet era. (List of artists here.) Now, Tunecore CEO Jeff Price, a long time critic of Nielson, has fired back attacking Silverman for using only “official" ...

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Live Nation May Sell Venues to AEG

January 23, 2010

Live Nation has signaled that they may be willing to sell a portion of their venues at favorable terms to their chief rival, AEG Live in a bid to get the Justice Department to sign off on their proposed merger with Ticketmaster. While the sale of Live Nation's venues to their chief rival may seem like ...

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On the Ground in Cannes For #midem

January 22, 2010

I arrived Cannes Thursday evening before the start of the MIDEM gathering. All the usual suspects are just starting to appear. The first thing that I noticed, however, was that their was no main sponsor billboard above the main entrance of the Palais. Perhaps its still to go up, but I remember the ,assive Napster banner ...

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Digital Release Date Dilemmas

January 22, 2010

This guest post comes from Clyde Smith who recently celebrated both his 50th birthday and the 5th anniversary of the founding of ProHipHop: Business News. He also publishes Hip Hop Press: Releases and has slowly begun blogging at Cultural Research: Library Innovation Blog. . The move to digital album releases has raised some problems for me ...

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Download Music, Donate to Haiti Relief

January 20, 2010

I'm not a religious person, but “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" has always made sense to me. So I donated to help the people of Haiti and I encourage you to do the same. Please also share these widgets across your own sites.