Browsing all posts in August, 2008.
China Mobile
The current population of the United States is 304,994,114. That should put things into perspective to say that China Mobile, the largest wireless provider in China, has 421,700,000 subscribers. That is 6% of the world’s total population! Of these 421 million + Chinese mobile subscribers, 80 million + have subscribed to the M. Music Wireless [...]
Mind the Gap
The United Kingdom retailer HMV has just released the beta form of a site called Get Closer (www.getcloser.com). What this site does is allow you to upload your entire iTunes collection and then the site will tell you what you are missing in order to complete your collection per artist. To fill in the gap. [...]
Online Talent Scouting
Digital entertainment retailer, eMusic, is expanding its role into A&R (artist & repertoire) to discover new artists and help them to the next step of getting signed with an independent label. This is a pretty natural extension for eMusic as they are receiving music from new artists all around the USA. This is an important [...]
Live Nation’s Latin American Adventure
Live Nation, the behemoth concert promoter, 360 deal signer, and venue owner has expanded their international presence through 2 strategic partnerships in Latin America. The new partnerships are with CIE in Mexico and T4F (Time for Fun) which is based out of Brazil. CIE is the third largest concert promotion company in the world. They [...]
BMI
Finally. A bright spot in the music industry. A company with + signs in front of their numbers instead of the all too common -. Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) just posted revenues for fiscal year ending June 30th and they came in at a whopping $901 million. This is a 7.4% increase from the prior [...]
Subscribe to Australia
A bricks & mortar retailer has just launched a very attractive subscription-based music site in Australia. Sanity Entertainment, which has 220 physical locations in the format of Sanity, HMV, and Virgin Megastore, is now moving into the online realm. For just $26 ($29 Aus$) a month, subscribers can download a total of 300 songs per [...]
RIAA’s Mux-up
RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) is trying really hard to get money for the record labels and eventually the artists. That is their purpose, to fight for the record labels. Only problem is that they are fighting from a 1980′s mindset. A mindset that fears the way music will be purchased and consumed in [...]
The Great Firewall of China
The venerable Chinese government blocked iTunes access this week. Blocked as in all of iTunes. Apparently, some Olympic athletes had downloaded a pro-Tibet album containing songs by Moby, Alanis Morissette, and Sting as a way to protest the Chinese government’s heavy hand towards Tibet. So they just shut down the site for the 1.3 billion [...]
Australian Music Biz
New sales figures have been released for the music business in Australia. The continue to follow the same trend. CD sales are down, digital sales are up, but not up enough to cover the cd sales that are down. Revenues for Australian Recording Industry for the first 6 months of 2008 were down 4.3% from [...]
Pandora
I few weeks I blogged about Pandora and the fact that they were fighting upcoming increases in streaming licenses. Pandora is a site that streams new music to you based upon artists that you currently enjoy. Pandora has been wildly successful, especially as of late with millions downloading the iPhone application for personalized streaming music. [...]
