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Anita O'Day Biopic in Development

May 8, 2010

Producer Sheri Howell is developing a biopic of jazz singer Anita O'Day through Los Angeles-based 47 Pictures Inc. Howell, who spent over a decade as an MTV exec, has optioned the life rights to O'Day, who died three years ago at the age of 87. The documentary “Anita O'Day: Life of a Jazz Singer" received a ...

TuneCore Adds Charts, Offers Impressive Sales Stats

May 8, 2010

Flat fee digital distributor TuneCore has added a weekly Top 20 Artists chart and Top 20 Songs chart compiled from iTunes daily trend reports. Along with the announcement came come interesting stats from 2009 that show how TuneCore's popularity and hint at the potential for independent sales. 65 million songs were sold or ...

ReverbNation Adds Facebook Sharing Widget

May 8, 2010

ReverbNation has introduced a powerful yet simple to use widget that brings many the assets that artists have stored on RN including music and video onto their Facebook page and into their fans Facebook stream. News and updates are spread in real time. Promote Your Band On Facebook In ...

Video: Has Apple Lost It's Cool?

May 8, 2010

Realnetworks Post-Rhapsody Reports Small Profit from Lower Revenues

May 8, 2010

Q1 revenue fell 9% to $128.6M from $140.8M in the previous year quarter Net income of $3.2M or 5 cents a share vs. a net loss of $12.M or 10 cents a share last year Q1 numbers a $10.9M restructuring gain when it spun off Rhapsody and a one time $2.6M ...

Napster Goes Social with Facebook, Twitter and More

May 8, 2010

Best Buy owned Napster has added social features to its paid subscription and download music service. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Flickr are all integrated to facilitate easy music sharing with friends. Napster uses can also enjoying more social media content like Flickr photos and YouTube videos while they listen. Napster has also added Facebook Instant Personalization ...

Bob Baker: Giving Music Consumers These 3 Choices Leads to More Revenue

May 8, 2010

This guest post comes from Bob Baker of TheBuzzFactor, author of the “Guerrilla Music Marketing Handbook," Berkleemusic's “Music Marketing 101“ course, and many other books and music promotion resources. Are you pulling your hair out trying to figure out how to make money selling single digital downloads and albums, while also wondering where physical CDs fit ...

Apple's iPads VIP Shares Your iTunes Purchase Data with Other Marketers

May 8, 2010

When Apple announced its new iAds mobile advertising network for the iPhone and iPad ,Steve Jobs promised features that “cannot be duplicated" by any competitor. It turns out that one of those unique features is your iTunes purchase data. An emailed sales pitch from a sales rep from Quattro (a mobile ad network recently purchased by ...

Lauren Kinhan to Perform at Scullers Jazz Club on Wednesday, May 26

May 8, 2010

SINGER-SONGWRITER LAUREN KINHAN TO PERFORM AT SCULLERS JAZZ CLUB ON WEDNESDAY, MAY 26THAVALON CD RELEASE PARTY DL Media is proud to announce that singer-songwriter Lauren Kinhan will perform at Scullers Jazz Club on Wednesday, May 26th to celebrate the release of her newest album, Avalon. The 12 track release will ...

STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: James Carter Organ Trio

May 8, 2010

Our video spotlight shines this week on the versatile multi-instrumentalist James Carter, who will be in St. Louis next Wednesday, May 12 through Saturday, May 15 to perform at Jazz at the Bistro. Carter also will present a free saxophone clinic and master class from 11:00 a.m. to ...