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Could CD Quality Downloads Be an Answer to the Sales Slump?
Is it possible that super-high quality lossless music downloads could play a role in bringing consumers back to the habit of paying for music? Some evidence may point in that direction; particularly among the tech savvy crowd that were among the first adopt file-sharing and can be the hardest to please. Ian ...
Kid Rock and Ac/DC Rank 3,4 in 2008 Despite Anti-Digital Stance
Nielsen SoundScan reports show that Kid Rock's “Rock N Roll Jesus" was the third best selling album of the year in the U.S. as of the beginning of December. The release was CD only until nearly a year after its release, when Rhapsody grabbed exclusive digital rights where its sold only 3,000 digital copies so far. ...
Inside the Major Label Negotiations with iTunes
Two years after Steve Jobs declared that DRM was dead and a year after Amazon launched its DRM-free download store with all four major labels, the vast majority of tracks on iTunes are still delivered with a little piece of code that restricts transfer and use. What is taking so long? Perhaps deep down Steve Jobs ...
Warner Music Pitches ISP License to Universities
Warner Music Group's Jim Griffen, who has been a vocal proponent of blanket music licensing at the ISP level, is out pitching the idea to some of America's top universities. Columbia, Stanford, University of Chicago, University of Washington, MIT, University of Colorado, University of Michigan, Cornell, Penn State, University of California at Berkeley and University of ...
Top 10 Reasons Radio Stations Are Bleeding Money
Another great guest post from our resident music industry philosopher Kyle Bylin. The title speaks for itself. In The Social Music Evolution I wrote about the commercialization of radio due to Clear Channel's growth from owning forty five stations in 1995 to a staggering fifteen hundred by 2003. Noting this as a contributing factor that has ...
What is Working? - An Indie Label and D.I.Y. Series
Later this week we'll begin publishing a series of posts produced in conjunction with U.S. indie label trade group the American Association Of Independent Music (A2IM) called “What Is Working". I'll be asking some of the leading figures in independent music: In this fractured media landscape, what is working? What outlets and tools are helping your ...
Free Music Only Has Value If...
I've been thinking a lot about free music lately. For very good reasons, giving away music has become a top marketing tool. Done correctly it works. But too often not enough thought has been put into why, when, where and how the music is being given away. In this brief post on ...
Music 2.0 by the Numbers - Our Top List Posts
A look at some of Hypebot's top Music 2.0 list posts: 5 Lies Indie Musicians Tell Themselves Top 10 Issues Facing Music 2.0 - This was written back in May and almost nothing has changed. A list of 5 Unlikely Music Industry Heroes 100 Free & Affordable High A Low Tech Music Promotion Tips - It's ...
eMusic Retools with Nod to Indie Retail
As they continue their serach for a new CEO, eMusic has promised to stay competitive with a series of upgrades. It unveiled two recently: a home page redesign and a new recommendation engine that combines human analysis with computer algorithms designed by MediaUnbound. The new design attempts to solve what has always been a vexing problem ...
Music Furturist Gerd Leonhard Gives It Away Free
With a tip of the hat to both the holidays and a rough economy, music and media futurist Gerd Leonhard has assembled a round-up of some of his best content and is giving it away for free. Free PDF with Gerd's “Best of 2008 Blog Posts & Essays" (66 pages, US letter size, 10MB) ...
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