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Eu Winamp Player Integrates 7digital Downloads
7digital is now being incorporated into AOL's Winamp media player in Europe allowing users to purchase tracks within the application and on Winamp.com. The two companies are partnering in ten regions including the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Austria, Portugal and Ireland.. Winamp is using 7digital's API to pull data including artist, track and album information ...
Yahoo! Music Adds Artist Pages
Yahoo! Music has launched Artist Pages which aggregate music, services and info from across the Web for 500,000 artists. The goal is to become “the ultimate starting point for music fans" and given Yahoo's reach, some pages may soon surpass artist Wikipedia and official pages at the top of search engines. Fans have the ability ...
Future of Music Coalition Wants to Rewrite Rules of the Music Industry
Artist lobbying group, The Future Of Music Coalition, has issued a “Principles for Artist Compensation in New Business Models". The goals is the adoption of “legitimate digital business models and legitimate digital music marketplaces" which FOMC believes are “critical to musicians' ability to promote, distribute and earn compensation for their music". Highlights include: Licensing, Collection and ...
Review of the Free Music Debate
Inspired by the coming release of Chris Andersen's book Free: The Future of a Radical Price, we've been exploring the importance of free music. There is no debating that free is here, but the discussion as to how to use free music, even how to monetize it, has just begun. Last week's posts sparked a lively ...
Google Starts Music Service in China with WMG, Sony and Universal
In conjunction with Chinese music site Top100.cn, Google has launched an online music service in China. Users can download and save free songs from Warner Music Group, Sony, Universal Music Group and 140 independent labels Google's moves counters Baidu.com, which has more than double the search market share in China . The ...
"The Death of the CD-Release Complex"
Kyle Bylin, Associate Editor Introduction In his seminal release Purple Cow, marketer Seth Godin declared, “The Death of the TV-Industrial Complex." Explaining that, over the past fifty years ever-growing companies had built huge economic engines around the idea of a system that's going away, because the symbiotic relationship between consumer demand and TV ...
Will Labels Use or Abuse iTunes Variable Pricing?
Following months of lobbying by the major labels, the iTunes store will add variable pricing on April 7th. Tracks will be priced at $.69, $.99 and $1.29. There”s been no official word as to which downloads will be sold as various price points, but presumably some older catalog will be reduced in price; ...
Why Are We Still Debating Free?
On Friday morning I dashed off a Daily DIY “Understanding The Value Of Free“ which urged indie artists to remember the power of sometimes giving their music away and included a year old clip of Wired's Chris Andersen whose book on “Free" comes out in July. Almost instantly, a flurry of comments began that keep on ...
Mobile Music Gaining Fans Says New Study
A new KPMG and Mobile Entertainment Forum study shows that three quarters of US consumers are happy with their experience downloading and listening to songs on their mobile phone. 21% of the U.S. respondents and 30% globally have purchased songs at least once on their phones in the past year. 84% of US and 66% of ...
Are the Major Labels Killing imeem?
Late last year, rumors began circulating that imeem was in trouble. Ad revenue simply wasn't meeting the projections needed to pay labels the per stream rates agreed to. It was said that imeem was burning through the cash that Sequoia and Warner Music had given them at a rapid rate. Then the company began openly searching ...
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