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Top 10 Twitter Tools for Musicians

April 30, 2009

Great Tools For Fans Too SONG.LY - Type in a song title or mp3 link to tweeT and your followers get a short link to a page allowing them to play the song right in the browser without having to download it. TWITTERFEED - Use this free service to have your RSS feeds ...

People's Music Store Adds 300k Universal Tracks to Fan Retail Offering

April 29, 2009

Universal has become the first major label to embrace fan powered download retailer People's Music Store. Using the UK based site, fans in set up online stores, choose music, write reviews, and market via their blogs and social pages. But People's is not another multi-level marketing scheme. Fans-turned -storekeepers earn 10% of each sale in points ...

Harmonia Mundi - An Indie Classical Label That's Thriving in Tough Times

April 29, 2009

Classical Record Industry Down 30% In '09, Harmonia Mundi Up 9% All this week on Hypebot, we're exploring how the double whammy of falling sales and the global economic downturn is effecting the music industry. This guest post by Charlie Dahan, which first appeared on his Center Of The Indie Label Universe blog, shows how one ...

INgrooves Adds Telarc and Headsup Overseas

April 29, 2009

INgrooves has inked Telarc and Heads Up International, both divisions of Concord Music Group for digital distribution worldwide excluding the US and Canada. The wide ranging Telarc and Heads Up catalogs include jazz icons like Dave Brubeck, McCoy Tyner and Stanley Clarke, the blues of Taj Mahal and Tab Benoit, contemporary jazz from the likes Candy ...

A Social Media Strategy Outline for Bands

April 28, 2009

Music and the State of the Economy

April 28, 2009

The music industry has been hit with a double whammy. Sales continue their decline and the global economy is in the midst of the the deepest recession since World War II. Layoffs, consolidation and much less venture funding are just a few of the obvious signs. But from adversity can also come opportunity. Waste is trimmed. ...

Record Store Day Gives Indies Sales Boost

April 27, 2009

Saturday's National Record Store Day provided U.S. indie music stores and labels with a tangible boost in sales. Billboard chart analyst Ed Christman put the gain at just 1% of overall independent label sales. But Coalition Of Independent Music Stores (CIMS) outlets were up 22% over the previous year and vinyl sales jumped 222% according to ...

Video: Last Vinyl Press Plant in Detroit

April 27, 2009

MP3 Download Stores Compared

April 27, 2009

MySpace vs. Facebook User Gap Narrows

April 21, 2009