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Music is Looking to Ads for Revenue in Middle of Three Year Sales Slump

December 31, 2008

Rockmoto Matches Music with Motorcycles

December 30, 2008

Motorcycles and rock and roll - it seems like a pretty obvious connection. But no one's been helping to make it, until now. The Motorcycle Industry Council has launched RockMoto.com, a music centered social networking site to foster the connection that includes Features include: Pandora-enhanced music player: A partnership with Pandora allows community ...

Tuneroom Finds then Sends Songs to Mobile

December 29, 2008

MP3.com founder and serial entrepreneur Michael Robertson is at it again; this time helping to further his belief that mobile phones are the next MP3 players. Tuneroom is a music search engine designed to send songs wirelessly to any mobile phone and serve as a compliment to his previously launched Load2Mobile which wirelessly loads song collection ...

10 Musicians I Want to Invite to My Holiday Party

December 25, 2008

Leonard Cohen - Talk about intelligent cocktail conversation Ozzy Osbourne - Is it really a party without Ozzy? Ziggy Marley - Somebody has to bring the.... Ray Lamontagne - I just want to try to make this guy smile Dr. John - To add a little New Orleans spice to the party gumbo Willie Nelson - ...

EU Prefers iTunes 2 to 1 but Amazon Gaining Share

December 25, 2008

European broadband consumers who regularly listen to music on computers and MP3 players are twice as likely to purchase music from iTunes than from any other online store according to research from Strategy Analytics. The new report which is based on online interviews with broadband users in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and UK, also notes that ...

Kill the CD to Save the Industry, Study Advises

December 25, 2008

The music industry must move away from the retail CD as its primary revenue generator before Christmas 2009, according to a new Gartner study which says the reliance on revenue from the sale of CD's is hindering the music industry from fully embracing online distribution opportunities. “By propping up the CD business, rather than fully investing ...

Facebook Joins Myspace in Project Playlist Ban

December 25, 2008

Late last week MySpace responded to notices from the RIAA by banning all ProjectPlaylist widgets from its site. Yesterday Facebook followed suit. “The RIAA initially contacted Facebook last summer requesting the removal of the Project Playlist application for copyright violation, and recently reopened those communications. We have forwarded the RIAA's letters to Project Playlist so ...

A Little Holiday Music Fun

December 25, 2008

14 Devastatingly bad Christmas songs. (Music Radar) Sing a Christmas duet with Elvis at Sony BMG's Sing With The King. iBreath - a fully functioning iPod FM Transmitter add-on that doubles as a digital alcohol breathalyzer. That's right, folks- this little gizmo not only transmits your music wirelessly to your car stereo, ...

What the RIAA Doesn't Want You to Know...

December 23, 2008

The RIAA is telling us they're going to stop suing and get internet service providers to help them stop illegal file sharing. The RIAA says that it's worked for the movie industry (sort of) and they're talks with ISP's have been going well. Here's what they're not telling you: While a few ISP's have ...

Music's Long Tail Just Got a Lot Shorter

December 23, 2008

173,000 of the 1.23M albums available sold at least 1 copy last year That means 85% of albums did move a single copy all year. 80% of of all single track sales revenue came from 52,000 tracks All this is according to a new study by Will Page, chief economist of the ...