Browsing all posts in September, 2008.
EMI-tunes Australia
Major record label, EMI, has just launched its own site to sell music digitally, in Australia. The site is called Musichead MP3 and has a half million tracks available for paid download. In the words of EMI’s Australian Chairman: “Our goal is always to offer consumers the best possible digital music experience – in all [...]
H.R. 7084
What is in the world is H.R. 7084? It is the legislation that was just passed by the House of Representatives so that internet radio stations can negotiate with artists and labels over performance royalties. The legislation was passed by the House of Representatives and now moves to the Senate. The tricky thing about the [...]
Muxtape Farwell
Muxtape founder, Justin Ouellette, has posted a blog entry on the main page of the Muxtape website. Muxtape as we know it is no more. It was shut down by Amazon (who hosted the site) after receiving threatening letters from the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America). Muxtape had a simple premise – allow users [...]
Chinese Democracy
It appears that Guns N’ Roses will finally be releasing their new album “Chinese Democracy” before the end of the year. The highly anticipated, ten years in the making album will be sold exclusively through Best Buy retail outlets. No word yet if the album will also appear on iTunes or AmazonMP3. Guns N’ Roses [...]
MySpace Music
A major shift occurred in the music industry this past week. MySpace Music was officially launched as a Joint Venture between the major record labels and MySpace. Users will be able to stream ad-supported music for free and create playlists. Billboard magazine said this is “the most ambitious attempt to profit from free full-song streaming [...]
Amazon & Google
Google will soon be launching a new mobile phone operating on the Android platform. The new phone, the G1, will be sold by T-Mobile. The phone is expected to be available by October of this year. One major feature for this G1 phone will be the inclusion of Amazon’s MP3 store preloaded onto the device. [...]
The Online Royalty Deal
If you like complicated puzzles, then the online music royalty situation is right up your alley. A major royalty deal for streaming and limited downloads of music was announced this past week. Online music services, music publishers, and the recording industry all took part to come up with this deal. The deal concluded with the [...]
Universal’s Music Portal
Universal Music Group is looking to launch their own music video portal. This portal would be similar to NBC’s Hulu, where you can watch ad-supported tv shows on demand. Currently, Universal has licensed out their catalog to a number of websites for use, but does not have a site of their own. For instance, Universal’s [...]
Jay-Z & the Norwegians
Jay-Z is joining forces with Stargate, the Norwegian songwriting/production duo that is behind some of the current top 40 hits. Stargate has worked on Ne-Yo’s “Closer” and Rihanna’s “Take a Bow.” This new global partnership will be called StarRoc (Stargate & Rocafella) and will include a record label and publishing company under Jay-Z’s venture with [...]
Madonna in Latin America
On September 12th, I wrote about Madonna’s concert tour in Buenos Aires, Argentina. At that time, it was a pretty big news story that Madonna had sold out two shows in Buenos Aires in a matter of hours. Well, now it gets even better. Madonna has now added a 3rd and 4th show in the [...]
