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MySpace Music Down Under
MySpace Music has opened up shop in Australia & New Zealand as of today, Oct. 1. The popular social media network will have streaming music, playlist functions, and ringtone capabilities. This differs from the Myspace platform in that this one is specifically for music. New’s Corporation, owner of MySpace, has plans to roll MySpace Music [...]
Get Music Australia
Back in January of this year, Universal Music Australia launched its own website to sell & stream music. The website is Get Music (http://www.getmusic.com.au/). Universal Australia is now taking it one step further and is partnering with ebay in Australia to launch a new music portal at http://play.ebay.com.au/. Users will be able to purchase or [...]
Australian Tours
Sony Music Entertainment Australia just partnered with Chugg Entertainment to focus on touring and events for the Australian region. The particular branch of Sony Australia is called Day 1 Entertainment, and along with Chugg, they will co-promote domestic and international acts for Australian tours. Their first big tour will involved Simon and Garfunkel. Other upcoming [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Australian Music Biz
Bleak predictions were made by PricewaterhouseCoopers regarding the next few years for the recorded music industry in Australia. Starting with the recent past, just last year along, the recorded music market declined by a full 10%+. The market is expected to drop another 6.8% this year to be worth a mere US$729 million by the [...]
