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Numubu: Social Networking for Musicians and the Music Industry
Numubu, a social networking site for musicians and music industry professionals, is out of beta and offering $25,000, 5 iPads and more as prizes to entice signing on. The company is also developing tools to help market and sell music. Most of Numubu's offerings are free, but there is a premium membership that includes a share ...
TuneCore Launches Several Upgrades
Digital music distributor TuneCore has made several improvements to their service that will enable artists' music to go live more quickly at digital retail, be categorized more accurately and show up in more searches. Artists can now do bulk uploads, allowing them to upload up to 20 songs at once and have their music delivered faster ...
ReverbNation Improves Their Facebook App
ReverbNation has made improvements to their Facebook app “My Band." The additions include a more attractive layout and design, free custom header banner, fan-exclusive downloads, tour map with show schedule with details, enhanced sharing mechanisms, and links to retailers like iTunes and Amazon, among other things. To check out how the new app looks and feels, ...
Bandcamp to Switch from Free to Paid Service
After several years of offering free services, music marketing and sales platform Bandcamp announced today that it will be switching to a paid platform in early August. Bandcamp will charge artists 15% of each transaction, dropping to 10% as soon as an artist, management or label's all-time sales exceed $5,000. The revenue share rate for existing ...
NPD Survey: iTunes in Cloud Worth $1b in First Year
A new NPD Group study based on just under 4000 consumer interviews predicts that between 7 and 8 million iTunes users in the U.S. have a strong interest in paid music subscription options. Those surveyed indicated a willingness to pay a minimum monthly fee of $10, either for streaming music or access to their personal music ...
How Much Do Music Artists Earn Online?
How Much Do Music Artists Earn Online?I ran across this interesting article about the earnings of digital music from musicians/artists. Sad to say, it's not a surprise but certainly demonstrates how difficult it is to make a living in the music business today.Which is why it's important to stay flexible and prolific ...
Soundscan Starts Counting Loudbytes Merchandise Plus Download Packages
Loudbytes has been experimenting with selling t-shirts, buttons, mugs and other music merchandise with download codes attached. Now Loudbytes downloads will be counted by SoundScan alongside sales at iTunes, Amazon and other outlets. “Loudbytes is not about originating sales online, it's about creating new ways to sell digital music in the physical world," says Ruben Lozano ...
Social Music Service Twones Shuts Down
Amsterdam and Ukraine based social music service Twones has shut down. “We have tried several versions, iterations and models and it has been quite the ride," said an email sent late on Friday. “Now its time for a clean and fresh start." The engineering team, founders and technology are now a part of ...
Not so Neutral: Google, Bing, and Online Music Market
Both Google and Bing are searching for ways to position themselves as the best entertainment discovery tool. While Bing's offering is slightly more robust than Google's; it may not take them long--as recent rumors suggest--to catch up. Since, two weeks ago, the recording industry demanded that Google needs to stop linking to the Pirate Bay; it ...
Prince: "The Internet's Completely Over."
According to the artist commonly known as Prince, in an interview with the UK's Daily Mirror--the publication that will be giving away his new album 20TEN in a cover mounted promotion this week: “The internet's completely over. I don't see why I should give my new music to iTunes or anyone else. They won't pay ...
