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No More Auto-Play
MySpace is known for its clutter. I think that is one reason many people moved to the ‘cleaner’ Facebook network. In addition to the advertising, the user is always bombarded with music the moment a page is entered into on MySpace. Well, not anymore. You see, every time one of those songs starts to auto-play, [...]
Where are the Downloading Thiefs?
Illegal downloads of music are down. 42% of 14-18 year olds downloaded music illegally in 2007. By January of this year, that number was down to 26%. Now the RIAA & the record labels would like to think they scared people into not downloading by suing their pants off. Problem is, that didn’t really have [...]
Daring Dylan
Bob Dylan has been experimenting with some new ideas in the music business. First of all, Dylan has an album set to be released on April 28th. As part of the promotion for the album, Dylan is releasing some of the singles in some pretty random places. The latest song can be streamed at newsweek.com [...]
MySpace vs. YouTube
Which of the popular sites of MySpace & YouTube garner more listens for popular music? Recent data points to an almost 7 to 1 ratio in favor of MySpace. Now, the comparison is not exactly apples to apples as YouTube is in a video format and most of the MySpace listens occur in only an [...]
MySpace’s Billions
In just one week’s time, the new and improved MySpace Music has streamed over 1 billion song plays. That is pretty incredible for a site that will share the revenues with the artists and labels. The major labels also have strong equity stakes in the venture. Here is a list of the top songs for [...]
MySpace Music
A major shift occurred in the music industry this past week. MySpace Music was officially launched as a Joint Venture between the major record labels and MySpace. Users will be able to stream ad-supported music for free and create playlists. Billboard magazine said this is “the most ambitious attempt to profit from free full-song streaming [...]
Si
Spain just got its first taste of streaming music through the new website yes.fm. The site will offer over 2 million songs by 50,000 artists. Yes.fm has deals with all of the major labels and will be making their money through subscriptions and advertising. Clients will have a range of option plans for the amount [...]
Best Buy Napster
Best Buy just purchased the music website Napster for $121 million in cash. Napster, as we all know, really started the headache for the music industry back in the late 90′s as people could share music from their libraries. It was eventually shut down and later replaced with a more respected business model that included [...]
Thievery Corp’s New Album
In a first for a release of a new album, Thievery Corporation (recording artist/dj duo) is teaming up with iLike & Facebook to release their new album in a streaming format on September 19th. Members of iLike & Facebook will be able to stream the album before it’s official release date of September 23. This [...]
We7 & the Labels
We7 (we7.com) just signed a deal with Warner Music to be able to stream Warner’s entire catalog on their site. We7 is a free service that plays ad-supported streaming music. Ads are targeted based upon location, age, & gender. All you do is type in the artist, album, or track you would like to hear [...]
