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News: Music Industry

ticketdisaster.org Says "Not so Fast" to Merger

January 11, 2010

In response to reports of imminent approval of the Ticketmaster Live Nation merger, the public interest and live event industry members of the TicketDisaster.org coalition released the following statement: “This is just the latest attempt by Ticketmaster and Live Nation to convince the public and the Department of Justice to 'just trust us.' Anyone who ...

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News: Music Industry

Longtime Napster CEO Chris Gorog Steps Down

January 11, 2010

In a post on Napster's blog, longtime CEO Chris Gorog announced that he would be leaving the company. The move comes almost 18 months after he oversaw the sales of Napster to Best Buy. Today is my last day as CEO of Napster after having helped build the service over the last eight years. I ...

News: Music Industry

Music Tech Investments up in '09 Despite Economy

January 6, 2010

Band Metrics founder and CEO Duncan Freeman has completed his annual review of investments in music technology companies for his Indie Music Tech blog. Despite the down economy and what many believed to be a retrenchment from music tech investments, Duncan found some very hopeful trends: There were almost $4 billion in transactions, up from ...

News: Music Industry

eMusic Payments Don't Rise Despite Price Increase

January 6, 2010

This guest post on third quarter artist and label payouts from eMusic in the post-Sony era comes from David Harrell who blogs at Digital Audio Insider and plays with indie rockers The Layaways. The first full-quarter label/artist payout from eMusic after the introduction of the Sony catalog (and the restructuring of its subscription plans) was just ...

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News: Education

Registration Ends Monday Jan. 11th for Berklee Online Courses

January 6, 2010

Registration for the popular online classes offered by the Berklee College Of Music ends on Monday January 11th. Judging from the number of Hypebot readers that are taking it, there appears to be great interest in Mike King's new Topspin based Online Music Marketing course. I'll be teaching The Future Of Music And The ...

News: Music Industry

A Framework for Music Marketing in 2010

January 6, 2010

Most know Bruce Warila as the glue that holds the Music Think Tank blog together. But he's also an entrepreneur who has been involved in many tech startups over the last 15 years (the last 5 in music tech), and the chart above is the conceptual framework for his next project. On the chart, the outer ...

News: Technology

A Riff Between Google and Lala? Maybe Not...

January 6, 2010

On Monday, Digital Music News lead with an investigative piece, “Suddenly, Google Focusing Music Results On MySpace". DMN content partner paidContent also featured the post. A sample of Google music searches had apparently shown many more results pointing to MySpace Music than towards Lala, which was recently purchased by Apple. The reason for the emphasis on ...

News: Technology

MySpace Has Started Putting Ads Where imeem Playlists Used to be

January 6, 2010

WIRED blogger Eliot Van Buskirk was more than a bit surprised to learn that an imeem playlist that he'd created on his sadly defunct Listening Post blog had become a MySpace web ad. (Click on image from the Wired post to enlarge.) Other bloggers and web sites are reporting similar hijackings. Former imeem users were already ...

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News: Music Industry

Bands Have an Official Life Span of Nine Months

January 1, 2010

"As of '09, bands have an official life span of about nine months dating from the launch of their MySpace pages, thanks to the comically accelerated, DSL-enhanced hype cycle. Faster than you can tweet “Serena Maneesh," entire genres of music are “discovered" by attention-starved writers; bloggers engage in hilarious slap-fights about who was there first; magazines ...

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News: Music Industry

The Artist as an Entrepeneur and Vice Versa

January 1, 2010

"In their own way, all artists are entrepreneurs, and all entrepreneurs are artists. Though their tools and products may differ, both entrepreneurs and artists are in the same game- the making and selling of work that is personally and emotionally important to them. Artist. Entrepreneur. They're just words. What's far more interesting is not ...