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iLike the iPhone
iLike, the “leading social music discovery service, has just announced an upgrade to their iPhone application. You will now receive updates on when your favorite artists are touring in your city. Not only that, the app will use the GPS ability of the iPhone to give you directions to the venue. You can then share [...]
BCBG | Maxrave and New Music Discovery
What do you do when you aren’t selling your product in traditional outlets? You look for new outlets. And that is exactly what is happening with some new bands and the Maxrave retail outlet. Maxrave is a subsidiary of BCBG Max Azria that caters to women aged 16-24. Maxrave has over 280 stores in the [...]
The Do It Yourself Artist
How much has the music industry changed over the last 10 years. Really. CD sales are down, record labels are in upheaval, and no one is buying albums anymore. Has it really been that drastic of a change? Check out these numbers: 105,000 new albums were released in the USA in 2008 (that’s four times [...]
Michael Jackson’s Fame
The NY Times had a great article in Sunday’s paper about Michael Jackson and fame. The point of the article was that Michael Jackson will likely be one of the last superstars in this new age of fragmentation. In the article, David Segal notes that Jackson reached worldwide fame and popularity in a simpler time. [...]
Universal Meebo
Do you have a few different chat names? For instance, do you have an AOL name from a few years back along with your new Google g-chat name? Do you get frustrated having so many and not being able to combine friend groups? Well, the Meebo website was created to fix all of that.Meebo provides [...]
iLike Exclusive Content
It seems as though a new music website is being launched every day each offering a little different product. So for both new and established sites, there is a daily struggle to remain relevant and on top of things. One way to keep up is to be known as a site with exclusive content. The [...]
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 [...]
Myspace Music
MySpace Music is supposedly being launched within the next few weeks. MySpace Music will be a new direction for the well-known music discovery website and will include ad-supported on-demand streaming playlisting. It will also include DRM-free (digital rights management) downloads powered by Amazon that will allow the downloads to go right into iTunes. MySpace Music [...]
Mind the Gap
The United Kingdom retailer HMV has just released the beta form of a site called Get Closer (www.getcloser.com). What this site does is allow you to upload your entire iTunes collection and then the site will tell you what you are missing in order to complete your collection per artist. To fill in the gap. [...]
RIAA’s Mux-up
RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) is trying really hard to get money for the record labels and eventually the artists. That is their purpose, to fight for the record labels. Only problem is that they are fighting from a 1980′s mindset. A mindset that fears the way music will be purchased and consumed in [...]
