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Ringtone Sales
The recent sales numbers for music are abysmal. Double-digit sales % drops from just March of last year. About the only bright spot in the industry is sales of Ringback Tones. BMI just put out a report that estimated Ringback tones would be at $235 million in sales this year, up from $205 last year [...]
South American Music Downloads
There is some interesting news coming out of Argentina and Brazil regarding music downloads. In Argentina, a wireless carrier has just begun selling song downloads wirelessly and on their website. In Brazil, a website called Discografa was taken down because it had over 1 million users illegally sharing music files. But here is the really [...]
Exclusive Aardvark Records Press Release
Please see an exclusive press release below regarding a new Mobile Ringback Tone deal signed between Aardvark Records and United Fun Traders. Press Release/ 02 February 2009 Russian Mobile ringback tone deal for independent UK record labelPENRYN, CORNWALL & ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA (02 February 2009) Independent record label Aardvark Records has signed a deal with [...]
Brazilian Mobile Market
The digital music market in Brazil tops all other countries in Latin America. Revenues for 2008 doubled from the same period ’07. The breakdown is quite interesting as well. Digital sales are 10% of music sales in Brazil and of those sales, 80% are on mobile devices. Many of the songs are sold on pre-loaded [...]
3G in India
An industry report released yesterday predicted that India will have 90 million 3G users by the year 2013. 3G service allows for fast downloads and relatively fast internet speeds for mobile devices. These 90 million users are expected to form 12% of the total wireless user base. This has major implications for anyone with a [...]
Scandinavian Mobile Downloads
TeliaSonera, a Swedish telecom company, has launched a service called Telia Musik, which is a set-price all-you-can-download service for mobile subscribers. Users will be able to download songs to their mobile devices from a catalog of more than 3 million songs from all of the major labels save Sony. Some of the Indie labels are [...]
MySpace Mobile
MySpace has revamped their website so that videos will show up on most mobile devices, including the BlackBerry Bold, Palm Centro, Motorola Q9, LG Voyager, Nokia N95 and Samsung Instinct. However, it still will not show up on the Apple iPhone. The other phones have the capacity for streaming videos, which MySpace now allows, but [...]
Mobile Devices
I blog about the following topic a lot because I think it is very important for musicians to keep in mind. The developing world is adopting mobile technology at an astounding rate. Many people in developing countries will access the internet for the first time on a screen smaller than your hand. Information will be [...]
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 & [...]
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 [...]
