Browsing all posts in October, 2008.
Music Biz Sales #’s
Sony BMG just released sales numbers for the quarter that ended on Sept. 30th. They aren’t good. Sony lost $57 million on sales of $762 million. Losses a year ago during the same period were $8 million on $851 million in sales. Sony corp blamed the losses on “the continued decline in the worldwide physical [...]
The Beatles Video Game
MTV-owned Harmonix and the Beatles’ Apple Corps Ltd. have just announced a new video game that will be based solely upon the catalog of Beatles music. This is very significant as the Beatles have never released their catalog of music to iTunes. The release of the game is expected for Fall of 2009 but does [...]
Latin America Tour
A popular Spanish-language rock tour called Rock en Ñ is starting today with a stop in Caracas, Venezuela. The tour’s purpose is to promote Rock en Español and will hit 5 major countries – Venezuela, Colombia, Chile, Mexico, and Argentina. The five cities that will host the concert are described by Raul Ramosas of ARTeria [...]
Australian Music Festival
Australia continues to hit up the international music scene. I wrote a blog back in July about Queensland’s initiative to promote their local bands overseas as part of an ‘art fund.’ The initiative had a great response and has been a big help to Australian bands looking to build a presence overseas. Now, the Australian [...]
MTV Music
MTV is launching it’s own music video website at mtvmusic.com. This comes at a time when Universal Music is considering a similar site. The MTVmusic site will contain a wide variety of music videos and music-related content. It will also allow users the ability to post the videos within blogs, emails, and websites. This is [...]
More Venture Capital
Despite the struggling economy, there are still some glimmers of hope in the venture capital world and their investments into new music-related websites. The newest recipient is TuneCore, a site that allows artists to immediately distribute their music to a number of different digital music stores, such as iTunes. TuneCore just obtained $7 million in [...]
IODA & MySpace Music
IODA has just signed a deal with MySpace Music to offer their catalog of independent artists to MySpace’s new music platform. This is a big step, and one that should assuage those complaining that MySpace music just caters to the major labels. IODA is the Independent Online Distribution Alliance and is basically a marketing and [...]
Universal & Dell’s Affair
For some reason, Universal Music Group is working with Dell to offer pre-packaged music deals to be pre-loaded on new Dell Computers. The offer would be either 50 songs for $25 or 100 songs for $50 and the music bundles would consist of songs of various themes, such as #1 songs and Rock Titans. Why [...]
CD Baby
CD Baby founder Derek Sivers sold his company to Disc Makers back in late August of this year. CD Baby is an online record store that sells cds by independent artists. As of the writing of this blog, CD Baby has 254,310 artists that sell their music at CD Baby, 4,805,638 CDs that have been [...]
Ticketmaster Entertainment
Ticketmaster is not sitting idly by as their relationship as Live Nation’s ticket seller ends this year. Ticketmaster has just purchased a 30% stake in Front Line Management Group. The 30% stake was purchased from Warner Music Group and came at a price tag of $123 Million. The new entity will be called Ticketmaster Entertainment [...]
