music business
Why Every Monday Matters
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How one man changed his life, and impacted thousands of others with 52 ways to make every Monday matter.If I've learned anything over the past ten years, it's that the old saying, "It’s far more rewarding to give than it is to receive" is very powerful. I was recently invited...
Digital music spending greater than sales of CDs and records for first time
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BPI reveals that digital music accounted for 55.5% of total £155.8m music sales in the first quarter of 2012The amount of money made from digital music services has outstripped the sale of traditional CDs and records for the first time, according to first quarter revenue figures from music industry trade...
The Top Tech News (and Parties) From SXSW Music
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As tech enthusiasts and entrepreneurs nursed their hangovers and headed home after SXSW Interactive, there were still newsworthy launches, panels, and campaigns going on at SXSW Music. MOG hinted at its future revenue streams, Sean Parker predicted iTunes’ downfall, and products launched from Rap Genius, Monstro, and others. The second half of SXSW...
RIAA Wants Search Engines to Censor “Pirate Sites”
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Later today RIAA CEO Cary Sherman will take part in the “The Future of Audio” hearing at the U.S. House of Representatives. While the music industry group’s main aim at the hearing is to convince legislators to close a loophole that allows radio stations to play music without paying performance...
Report: More Movies Will Be Streamed Than Watched On Disc In 2012
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Pop the champagne and up the bandwidth, because 2012 is the year we finally do away with discs. According to a Bloomberg report on IHS Screen Digest, more viewers will stream movies than watch them on disc, an inflection point that can only mean the relatively quick demise of high-density...
The Beatles Launch Exclusive Ringtones Through iTunes Store
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Continuing their close relationship with the iTunes Store following a landmark deal to launch their music in the store in late 2010, The Beatles today announced the release of their first official ringtones, available exclusively through the iTunes Store.Beginning today, fans around the world can, for the first time, purchase...
Spotify Is Now The Number Two Revenue Source For Labels – Source
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Spotify is now the number two revenue source for the major music labels, a source close to the company tells us. Spotify is an on-demand music service. There are free and subscription options. 23 million people used the service last month, according to App Data. The number one revenue source...
Myth Dispensing: The Whole 'Spotify Barely Pays Artists' Story Is Bunk
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One of the key talking points that we've heard from the "haters" of the new music business models is the claim that Spotify pays next-to-nothing to artists. This is really based on a few stories, taken totally out of context, concerning a few artists who received relatively small checks from...
RIAA Behind US Government’s Failed Domain Name Seizure
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By late 2010, the U.S. Government’s Operation in Our Sites was in full swing. Domain names, considered property under the same forfeiture laws used to seize material items connected to criminal activity, were being swept up left and right in the name of protecting American jobs. Among them was DaJaz1.com,...
TCTV Interview: Mike Doughty, Author, Singer, Songwriter On The Future Of The Music Business
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I had the distinct pleasure of bringing Mike Doughty, songwriter and author, into the TCTV studio to talk about his new book, The Book Of Drugs, his new album, Yes & Also Yes, and how the music business has changed during his long and tumultuous career. You may remember...
Music Industry Can See The Light After 'Least Negative' Sales Since 2004
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The music industry enjoyed its best sales performance for eight years in 2011, as CDs’ collapse decelerated, digital sales continued growing and new services were launched to capitalise on in-roads made in combating piracy. Global recorded music trade revenue fell by just three percent through the year. “2011 marked...
What It Means Now That Zynga Has Bought Its Way Back to the Top of the Charts
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Rest easy, Zynga once again owns the top game on Facebook. Yesterday, it acquired OMGPOP, the developer that suddenly unseated the social-game giant after its overnight success with Draw Something. Draw Something, which challenges players to guess what another person is drawing, much like Pictionary, has been downloaded more than...
Kim Dotcom: Artists Rejoice, Megabox is Not Dead
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December last year, a month before the criminal proceeding against Megaupload became public, Kim Dotcom first revealed his plans to launch a new service to transform the music business. In a guest post for TorrentFreak, the Megaupload founder described the Megabox project as “..a site that will soon allow artists...
Former Record Label Exec Ethan Kaplan: Duh, Of Course More File Sharing Leads To More Sales
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We recently posted an interesting study talking about how greater file sharing of leaked albums had a specific (if small) causal impact that resulted in higher sales. I thought it was an interesting area of research, though one where a lot more work needs to be done. Following that, however,...
Facebook Interest Lists: The social newspaper done right
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Steal from the best, but make it your own, as the saying goes. Thursday, Facebook has done just that by co-opting two concepts made popular by others in an effort to make its social network the first place people go to consume news they care about. Facebook has introduced...
With Mowgli’s Songster social game, you can create your own music (exclusive)
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You can let your inner rockstar out, now that Mowgli is launching a music-creation social game called Songster. The Atlanta-based company is releasing the game on Facebook and touting it at the SXSW event in Austin, Texas. Mowgli hopes to help gamers escape the powerful gravity of Zynga games...
Realty Bites: Agents Grapple With How Homes Are Being Sold on the Internet
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The Internet has forever changed the newspaper industry, the music business and travel agencies. Now it’s real estate’s turn. Or at least that seems to be the case, in what could be a developing feud between real estate agents and online listing services such as Zillow, Trulia and Realtor.com. As these sites...
Online movie streaming in U.S. to top DVDs for the first time in 2012
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Online movie streaming in the United States is expected to top both DVD and Blu-ray use for the first time ever in 2012, according to a study from IHS Screen Digest. The study suggests that in 2012, Americans will legally stream 3.4 billion movies online — twice the 1.4 billion...
David Lowery Wants A Pony
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I'm kind of amazed at how many people have been sending over, tweeting or submitting David Lowery's "Letter to Emily White at NPR All Songs Considered." Everyone seems to think there's something worth commenting on there, but I can't find it, frankly. Lowery, as we've discussed before, has some nonsensical...
Spotify's Daniel Ek and Sean Parker: 'We're not competing with Apple, we're competing with piracy'
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Today at D10, Spotify's Daniel Ek and Sean Parker took to the stage with Walt Mossberg to discuss the future of their streaming music business. The conversation covered lots of ground that we've been over before, such as the company's user numbers (10 million active, 3 million paid if...
Keen On… Gracenote: How To Make Data Pay In The Music Business (TCTV)
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While the early history of the Internet is littered with the corpses of music start-ups, not all digital music companies have failed. Take, for example, Gracenote. Founded in 1998, the Berkeley based company was sold to Sony in 2008 for $260 million and is one of the real pioneers...
Some Facts & Insights Into The Whole Discussion Of 'Ethics' And Music Business Models
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I know we've written a few times now about David Lowery's now infamous shaming of an intern because she apparently doesn't give him enough of her money, but that story keeps getting attention. Thankfully, a lot of that attention comes in the form of people from all over the music...
Tyler Cowen: 'Everywhere Will Be Like the Music Industry'
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The music industry, as we all know, has been turned upside down by the new behaviors enabled by the Internet. If you look at recorded music sales alone, the industry has nosedived since the late 90s. But if you take a broader view, we see that people continue to listen...
Microsoft's Xbox Music Service to Include Streaming, Downloads, and Cloud Storage?
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Earlier this month, we noted that Microsoft was making a major push into the living room, seeking to use its Xbox hardware as the hub for new streaming video content and a "SmartGlass" app for various platforms that will allow two-way Airplay-like wireless streaming between devices and an Xbox connected...
Rethink Music 'hackathon' developers build creative music apps with the help of Kinect and Spotify
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Berklee College's Rethink Music conference isn't just for those in the music business — over the weekend, Boston-based music intelligence company the Echo Nest sponsored a "hackathon" at Microsoft's New England Research and Development Center. This gathering provided an opportunity for music developers to get together and spend a...
Keen On… Ethan Kaplan: Why The Movie Industry Needs to Smash All Its Windows (TCTV)
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Executives at the big music labels tend to get a bad rap. But some of the most innovative people in the music business began their careers at the labels. Take, for example, Ethan Kaplan, the VP of Product Development at LiveNation.com who used to be SVP of Emerging Technologies...
The Big Rumor At SXSW Music: Apple Is Launching A Spotify-Like Service (AAPL)
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At the SXSW Music show this year, people are buzzing that Apple is getting close to launching a subscription music service to take on Spotify. An exec in the digital music business told us an announcement could be coming in days. Digital Music News also reported hearing this buzz...
Florida student pleads guilty to posting Facebook threat against Barack Obama
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Joaquin Amador Serrapio said he would assassinate president during a fundraising trip through south Florida in FebruaryA college student has pleaded guilty to posting threatening messages against the Barack Obama on Facebook.Joaquin Amador Serrapio Jr, 20, could get up to five years in federal prison for pleading guilty to a...
How Digital Music Innovation Will Suffer if Universal Acquires EMI
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The music business, to say the least, ain't what it used to be. To be precise, the industry has shrunk by about 50% since Napster's heyday, and virtually nobody expects it to fully bounce back. The major labels know this and have tried just about everything to remain dominant, including...
Counting Crows Distribute Songs And More Via BitTorrent
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Five years ago, we wrote about a fascinating writeup by the keyboard player for the band The Counting Crows, in which he discussed his views on piracy and the music industry. While we didn't fully agree with what he was saying, his viewpoint was definitely worth reading. He was worried...
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