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News: Technology

Myspace Music Showing Strong Growth

July 25, 2009

Growth may have slowed for MySpace, but the same can't be said for its music.myspace.com subdomain. New Nielson figures show a 190% increase at MySpace Music since its launch in September 2008 and year-over-year traffic to the URL has increased a whopping 1,017% That's a jump from 4.2 million unique visitors to 12.1 million ...

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News: Technology

Music Widgets Come of Age

July 24, 2009

Widgets to share and sell music began appearing as early as 2008. But with the increased focus on direct to fan channels, a widget's ability to spread virally and be updated instantly has led to greater adoption from music marketers. In addition to standalone widget suppliers, both Topspin and ReverbNation, for example, have made widgets a ...

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News: Music Industry

The Artist as a Startup and Label as a Venture Fund

July 23, 2009

Is A New Model Emerging? During the panel that I was a part of at yesterday's New Music Seminar, we briefly floated the idea of the artist as a start-up company. Not only is there value in thinking of an artist's career (or any career for that matter) as a business and embracing an ...

News: Recording

Bowie Joins Fan Remix Fun with "Space Oddity"

July 23, 2009

Virgin/EMI is celebrating the 40th anniversary of Bowie's “Space Oddity" with the release of a commemorative digital EP and a new fane remix app for the iPhone and iPod touch. The EP features four versions of “Space Oddity" plus its original eight multi-track stems, enabling fans to remix the song using any software or a new ...

News: Music Industry

Kazaa Relaunches as "Future of Digital Music". It's Not.

July 22, 2009

(UPDATED) The press release arrived with the bold headline “Kazaa Relaunched - The Future Of Digital Music". After a rumored $100 million settlement with rights holders Kazaa is coming back to life as a legal digital music service in the United States. Owner Altnet hopes to use once powerful Kazaa file-sharing brand to launch a ...

News: Music Industry

Ingrooves Partners with Topspin for Custom Direct to Fan Marketing Solutions

July 22, 2009

Digital distributor INgrooves can now offer Topspin's technology-driven direct-to-fan marketing, management and distribution platform to is artists and labels. This is the first enterprise marketing services deal with a digital distributor for Topspin and will provide another way for INgrooves's artists and labels to maximize sales. The partnership expands the suite of services that INgrooves ...

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News: Music Industry

Rock Band Opens Platform to Indie Music

July 21, 2009

Getting A Song Onto Gaming Platforms Is About To Get Easier Music is an essential part of gaming and enjoying music long side games increased exponentially with the popularity Rock Band and Guitar Hero. Until now, however, most indie and d.i.y. musicans has been shut off the gaming console. Harmonix and MTV Games are opening access ...

News: Technology

CEO Promises Simplified Unified Myspace

July 21, 2009

"...simplifying and unifying our site is fundamental to our success going forward. MySpace should feel like one platform - not 15 sites loosely stitched together. We consider our diverse content offering a strength but too many logos and disorganized verticals makes the site difficult to navigate and creates confusion about our brand identity.

News: Technology

Youth Music Box Democratizes Music Creation

July 18, 2009

Is Everyone Making Music A Good Thing? If you are one of those people who thinks that there's already too much mediocre music being released every year; check out this set-up designed to introduce teenagers to the “joys" of creating ...

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News: Technology

Indaba Enables Online Collaboration from Recording to Remix

July 16, 2009

Indaba enables online collaborative music creation and with the release of its new online console that means from the recording basic tracks to the the final mix. For prices ranging from free to $25 per month, musicians can meet and record privately or open their mixes to the wider Inadaba community creating unique and spontaneous overdubs ...