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Twisten.FM - They Tweet You Listen

February 14, 2009

Grooveshark today launched Twisten.fm which lets users hear the music the world is tweeting about. The mashup crawls Twitter for all the songs being shared and then adds a play button to listen to the content directly from the Twitter dashboard. Because, like Grooveshark, Twisten does not host any music, it avoids all of the potentially ...

Analyst: Merger Will Lead to Double Digit Ticket Price Increases

February 13, 2009

Yesterday Hypebot shared 6 Predictions For Live Nation Ticketmaster, but paidContent's Rory Maher went beyond predictions and did a detailed analysis of how Live Nation and Ticketmaster were likely to make the merger worthwhile to stockholders. Based on annual and quarterly reports and some fairly sound assumptions Maher concluded that double digit ticket price increases are ...

Start Building Your Team Today

February 13, 2009

FOR THE INDIE IN ALL OF US - Eventually an artist's music industry team will include a manager, agent, publicist, webmaster, internet marketing team, an accountant or business manager, a record label (or outsourced label team) and a whole roomful of lawyers. But when you're just getting started, you can't attract or even afford any of ...

Online Music Radio Listening Jumps 36%

February 12, 2009

Online music radio listening hours increased 37.6% to 6.67 billion in 2008, while in-stream audio sold  improved by 46.1% to $74 million during the year, according to AccuStream iMedia Research. AOL's Shoutcast platform remains the most utilized outlet for online music, capturing 52.5% of total time spent listening, followed by Clear Channel sites with 7.8%. Shoutcast ...

Daily D.I.Y. - Building Personal Brand Within the Social Media Landscape

February 11, 2009

Kyle Bylin, Associate Editor This is a transcription of a presentation given by Gary Vaynerchuk at the Web 2.0 Expo in New York. I've watched the video many times and wanted you share it with you, because I think he says some very important things. There's always going to be a day where you don't want ...

Peoples Music Store Rewards Viral Sales

February 11, 2009

(UPDATED) The UK People's Music Store empowers fans to set up music stores and choose from more than 250,000 songs, write reviews, and market their store online. Storekeepers earn points for everything they sell, which can be used to buy more music. I met two of the People's Music Store team at Midem and was pleased ...

Indie Label Asthmatic Shares "What is Working?"

February 11, 2009

In an ongoing series Hypebot has been asking indie professionals: “In this fractured media landscape, what is working? What outlets and tools are helping your artists build an audience? “ Today Michael Kaufmann, John Beeler and the team at indie label Asthmatic Kitty (Sufjan Stevens, I Heart Lung, Welcome Wagon, Castanets, Half-handed Cloud) share their philosophies ...

Indies Win 50% of This Year's Grammy Awards

February 11, 2009

Independent artists and labels had a banner year at the 2009 Grammy Awards winning 56 of the 110 awards given or just over 50% of the total prizes. “The continued growth of independent music is underscored by the success of independent artists and labels at this year's Grammy's. Music released by artists on independent labels scored ...

Ticketmaster Live Nation Merger Done, Government Scrutiny to Follow

February 11, 2009

IT'S OFFICIAL! Here's the press release. Both stocks suffer losses as Wall Street gives thumbs down to deal. (UPDATED) The merger of Ticketmaster and Live Nation is a done deal and will be announced today. It be an all stock merger with the two companies combining as relative equals and cost savings of $40 million plus ...

Video: Seth Godin on Why You Need a Tribe

February 11, 2009