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SoundCloud File Sharing
I am part of a music duo and we have recently been recording an album. The engineer for the album asked us to begin sharing our work in progress files through a website called SoundCloud. SoundCloud basically acts as an FTP upload area to quickly share your music files with others. Many musicians are using [...]
Free Moby
The best selling song on Moby’s latest album is called “Shot in the Back of the Head.” What’s odd is that this track has been and still is available for free. I mean, it’s available for free legally. And it’s the #1 selling song on the album. Apparently, The Orchard has noted similar results. The [...]
Twitter Users & Music Purchases
A recent report by the NPD Group found that Twitter users purchase more digital music downloads that non-Twitter users. In fact, they purchase 77% more! Twitter users are also twice as likely to visit sites such as MySpace & Pandora to discover new music. Now, some of these numbers need to take into account that [...]
MXP4
I have often blogged about the price of music files. We are learning that when Apple raises prices of songs to $1.29, they sell drastically less songs. We also saw China do an experiment last year to see if people used to getting songs for free would pay just $0.06 for a song. These are [...]
Free MP3′s – in China
Google has launched a free MP3 website in China. It will be an ad-supported website. All 4 of the major record labels are on board and the site is now live. Right now, 350,000 songs are available and Google anticipates there being 1.1 million that will be available very soon. The major reason behind this [...]
Bacardi Groove
Bacardi, the famous rum producer, has initiated a novel approach to sharing music. Bacardi has partnered with the band Groove Armada, a big beat duo out of England, to be one of the online distributors of the band’s new EP. The idea is for users to promote Groove Armada through Bacardi’s B-Live site. Users can [...]
