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Faceboook Restricts iLike App

November 18, 2009

Social Networking Wars Heat Up Now that iLike owned by rival MySpace, Facebook is restricting some features of the iLike app on it pages. The move is bound to be unpopular with the 12 million users that have made iLike the #1 music app on Facebook. Over the last few days Facebook users who had installed ...

iTunes Gets More Linkable

November 18, 2009

Apple has changed the links generated on its iTunes store to be directed to a new iTunes Preview site which gives consumers the option of previewing music without launching the full iTunes application. Links to the iTunes Preview page can be grabbed via the store's “Copy Link" feature. Until know, if you didn't have iTunes installed ...

Which Samartphone Should You Be Developing an App For? Think Again...

November 18, 2009

Worldwide Smartphone Sales to End Users in 3Q09 (Thousands of Units Company Sales Share (%) Sales Share (%) ...

Zenph Gets $10.7m for Musical Re-Performances

November 18, 2009

Badly done cover versions may soon become a thing of the past. Why am I not rejoicing? Zenph Sound Innovations has created a technology that turns music into data “to understand and precisely recreate musical performances" and secured $10.7 million to develop and promote it. The processes turns audio recordings into data sets. Zenph captures musical ...

Is It Possible for a Band to Sell out Anymore?

November 18, 2009

"While we might be irked that our favorite band has sold a song to VW or McDonald's, we can instantly decontextualize and remove that song from its annoying commercial counterpart. When we don't buy full albums anyway, when we don't care about album sequence (which is all about intention) or look at the band's artwork or ...

Win the New Edition of Passman's "All You Need to Know About the Music Business"

November 18, 2009

Share your favorite music industry advice and win 1 of 3 copies of the updated edition of this industry bible. For nearly two decades Don Passman's All You Need to Know About the Music Business has been regarded as an essential guide to the music industry. Nw in its 7th edition, the book covers a wide ...

M Music and Musicians: A New Magazine Launches in the Middle of the Recession

November 18, 2009

M Music & Musicians, a new multi-genre print music magazine, is set to to launch in January. In addition to traditional newsstand sales, M will be shipped with customer purchases made through major online musical gear retailer Sweetwater guaranteeing a built-in distribution of 160,000 starting with the first issue. M MUSIC & ...

Lala, iLike Traffic Jumps Post Google

November 14, 2009

As Spotify Stalls, MOG May Have U.S. All to Itself

November 14, 2009

Word came yesterday that Spotify had to delay its promised before the end of the year U.S. launch. Behind the delay is Spotify's inability of license music at a price that they can afford given their freemium (free basic and paid premium) model. Just as the labels have discovered that Spotify and music streaming appears to ...

Would You Pay for Myspace?

November 14, 2009

MySpace Music is “almost certainly" going to restrict free streaming and move to a paid model says TechCrunch citing multiple sources. “They are spending $20 million/month on streaming royalties, and that just isn't sustainable," said one source. Many believed that MySpace Music was immune in part because it is co-owned with the major label groups.