Browsing all posts in September, 2008.
Thievery Corp’s New Album
In a first for a release of a new album, Thievery Corporation (recording artist/dj duo) is teaming up with iLike & Facebook to release their new album in a streaming format on September 19th. Members of iLike & Facebook will be able to stream the album before it’s official release date of September 23. This [...]
Best Buy Napster
Best Buy just purchased the music website Napster for $121 million in cash. Napster, as we all know, really started the headache for the music industry back in the late 90′s as people could share music from their libraries. It was eventually shut down and later replaced with a more respected business model that included [...]
South Africa V Festival
The Virgin Group, Richard Branson’s brainchild, has just announced a new music festival for South Africa. The festival will be titled the V festival and will feature local bands as well as Snoop Dogg, Maroon 5, and OneRepublic. The Cape Town, South Africa promoter for this event is Big Concerts and they expect over 60,000 [...]
Madonna & Argentina
Back in June, I blogged about Madonna skipping a potential tour date in Lima, Peru due to the economics of the deal. I noted that Madonna usually requires a $4 million price tag for each concert that she does, regardless of location. The largest stadium in Peru seats 45,574 people which would have required an [...]
Mobile Musicians
A company called Thumbplay just released new technology for artists to upload content through mobile devices. Artists can go in and create an account, upload their digital music and graphics, and then make widgets specifically designed for different mobile devices. Another great benefit is that artists get a share of the revenue from song & [...]
CreateSpace
Things keep getting better for independent artists who want to promote their music from their living rooms. Amazon.com is increasing their influence in the arena through their CreateSpace website. Through CreateSpace, artists can set up an area online where they sell their MP3′s and where they will be listed on Amazon.com’s MP3 store. The really [...]
Amazon’s New Music Info Site
Amazon.com has just launched a new website called SoundUnwound (www.soundunwound.com). The site contains information about music artists and allows users to go in and change the information, much like Wikipedia currently functions. Starting information for bands is largely gathered from other websites. The way that Amazon will make money will be by selling tracks from [...]
Brazilian Collaboration
Warner Music is making some great strides in Brazil, literally. Warner has just teamed up with the Brazilian soccer club The Corinthians to create Corinthian-based content to spread over mobile devices. In return, The Corinthians will help distribute Warner’s catalog to their fan base throughout the world. This is a great collaboration. First of all, [...]
Int’l Music Biz Trade Offs
The way that music companies are so protective of their artists, you would think it very rare for these companies to collaborate. But that is exactly what is happening in some overseas markets. Warner Music Group will begin taking over business for EMI Music in Southeast Asia. The terms of the deal are that Warner [...]
Mobile Devices
One of my part-time jobs is in web design. I am consistently telling my clients that they must adopt their websites to smaller screens. I know that in many households, bigger and bigger flat screen monitors are being used for television and computers. But the numbers are telling a much different story in terms of [...]
