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Myspace Music Shares Strong Stats, Adds Australia

October 5, 2009

MySpace Music shared some strong U.S. August stats yesterday. From Nielsen Netview - MySpace Music unique users have grown 169% since launch in September 2008 and 1472%, year-over-year The site has nearly tripled its unique users since launch 12 -17 year olds are 2.3 times more likely than the average net user to visit ...

New Ad Supported Music Downoad Site freeallmusic.com Gets Seed Funding

October 5, 2009

PLUS A Q & A With CEO Richard Nailling Free All Media has secured seed funding to launch its FreeAllMusic.com ad supported free digital music service in late 2009. The initial round includes founding investor, Scott Barber, CEO of Reform Records, and Free All Media's CEO Richard Nailling. FreeAllMusic.com will offer ad supported songs without DRM ...

Rhino Records Lays off 30-40

September 26, 2009

Are More Cuts Ahead? WMG's catalog arm Rhino has pink slipped 30-40 staffers with cuts across all departments. A statement from Rhino blamed “fundamental transformation of the physical new release and catalog business" for the cuts. Rhino will evolve into a leaner division that “handles WMG's global digital catalog initiatives, film, TV, videogame ...

Lawsuit Claims Guitar Center, NAMM Fixed Prices

September 25, 2009

A nationwide class-action lawsuit has been filed against Guitar Center and the National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) claiming the two conspired to fix retail pricing on guitars, allowing the music retail giant and other major retailers to reap higher profits and squash competition at the expense of consumers. The suit filed earlier this week ...

Illegal Downloaders Also Buy and Stream Music

September 25, 2009

Who Says CD Sales Are Dead? Remastered Beatles Sell 2.25 Million in 2 Weeks

September 24, 2009

Without the help of a single digital download, The Beatles have broken multiple chart records around the world following the 9-9-09 CD release of their digitally re-mastered catalog. In the major music markets of North America, Japan and the UK, consumers purchased more than 2.25 million copies of The Beatles' re-mastered albums during the first five ...

RIAA Chief Says the Music Industry Has 5 Reasons for Optimism

September 24, 2009

Now that the RIAA is tiring of suing individual filesharers, its head Mitch Bainwol needs a new soapbox to stand on. Apparently he's decided that what's needed is a record label cheerleader to cut through all the doom and gloom indicated by the sales numbers. To kick off his campaign, he released an essay “5 Reasons ...

The Music Industry Pays the Price of Negativity

September 24, 2009

It's Time For A New Conversation New calls for three strikes laws and P2P taxes in the UK have spawned strong reactions from high profile artists including Lily Allen, James Blunt, Muse and Elton John. Their calls to end piracy seem strange this many years after Napster changed the face of the music industry and only ...

New Music Seminar Comes to Chicago Oct. 6th

September 23, 2009

After a successful re-launch in NYC earlier this year, the New Music Seminar is going on the road with a stop on Chicago on October 6th. And for those struggling to find their place in the new music industry paradigm the roadshow couldn't be better timed. Hypebot Readers Save 10% Until October 2nd Album sales ...

6 Ways to Make the Most of Twitter's 140 Characters

September 23, 2009

(Updated) Artists from Trent Reznor to Amanda Palmer and Imogen Heap have shown the power of Twitter for fostering and monetizing a more direct relationship between artists and fans. Many startups also use Twitter effectively to spread their massage. But getting your point across in 140 characters or less isn't always easy. Here are 5 Ways ...