Why MySpace And Wikipedia Pages Are More Important Than Ever - hypebot
MySpace is over. Traffic is falling. Google's new enhanced music search has pushed my Wikipedia entry further down the page. Why should I care what a bunch og geeks write about me anyway, right? Wrong. First, both MySpace and Wikepdia still get...

EMI Diversifies With Abbey Road Live Recordings - hypebot
Abbey Road Live, EMI's new live music audio and video recording and instant production service, will allow fans to purchase high quality live recordings of shows they've just attended. Mixed and mastered on site, the recordings will be made...

Music Glue - The band is the brand
Music Glue is a free to use online marketing and e-commerce solution for artists, managers, promoters and venues, providing all the tools required to engage modern internet savvy fans that expect to interact directly with their favourite artists.

Google launches music search with Lala, Pandora, Rhapsody, imeem and MySpace | Technology | Los Angeles Times
But in steering millions of Internet users to these sites, Google is indirectly boosting their ability to compete with iTunes, which was responsible for 69% of U.S. digital music sales in the first six months of this year, and 35% of all music sales,...

FT.com | Tech Blog | From today’s Daily Google…
Google has no commercial relationship with these “partners”, insists Mr Pitman: they were selected purely on the basis of the completeness of their song catalogues and their ability to stream music to Google’s massive audience.

Datos estadísticos busquedas MUsica Google Onebox Music Lanzamiento
Here are some highlights:-- Out of the top 1,000 search terms that took place on Google last week, 6 percent were music-related (which includes bands, music services and content).-- Last week, Google sent 1.48 percent of their total visits to the Music...

Live Blogging From The Google Discover Music Launch Event
Cobertura del evento de presentacion Q&A

Giving People A Reason To Buy: Make Buying Fun | Techdirt
One of the key points in talking about giving people a real reason to buy is to make it an experience where people want to pay the prices that you're offering. In fact, one of the best to do this has been Josh Freese -- who set up a variety of...

Drummer Takes Tiered Buying Options To Extreme (And Hilarious) Levels | Techdirt
give people different options, and added value for paying more, and they'll often take you up on it. Two of the more impressive examples of this were Jill Sobule and Trent Reznor (two very different artists, obviously). Now it appears that Josh...

My MidemNet Presentation: Trent Reznor And The Formula For Future Music Business Models | Techdirt
The core of the presentation is the following simple "formula" that is the basis for making money in the music business (and, I'd argue, many other businesses) in the digital era:Connect With Fans (CwF) + Reason To Buy (RtB) = The...

Video: Music 2.0 - The Future of the Music Industry (18 mins)
A presentation by Gerd Leonhard

KnowTheMusicBiz.com - Ideas I like by Martin Atkins
Sometimes bands that aren't obviously, rabidly perusing POP success really fail at the merchandising side of things. These guys dont: Three weeks before a show they send out a handful of postcards to their fans as a reminder and as a call to arms to...

Record Label Embraces Pirate Party BitTorrent Tracker | TorrentFreak
the Canadian Pirate Party had established its own BitTorrent tracker. The Pirates hope to show that BitTorrent is not a threat, but a great tool for artists to promote their work. Record label Thorny Bleeder agrees and is now offering free music via the...

The Indie Maximum Exposure List
the list is broken up into 7 critical categories: 1. Mindset/ Who You are Being; 2. Fostering Relationships; 3. Recording & Releasing Material; 4. Touring / Live Performance; 5. Social Media / Internet Strategy; 6. Online Resources (Where to Submit);...

Facebook To Launch Music Gifting Service
Facebook later this week will launch a new content gifting service that will allow members to, among other things, buy and give digital music tracks to their friends. The music element will be powered by Lala, which is the exclusive music vendor. Lalas...

YouTube - Social Media Revolution
Is social media a fad? Or is it the biggest shift since the Industrial Revolution? Good video.

When Free Works - hypebot
Free music is getting a bad rap as of late by some industry analysts (see Mark Mulligan's recent post), but - in certain circumstances - I still think it can work. I agree with the skeptics -- having all artists give away digital downloads of all...

The price of freedom
Reinventing the online economy: Gerd Leonhard explains why ‘free’ content can still pay in the long term

Help A New Kind of Music Label Revolutionize The Industry (FR)
Ce billet est une version à destination de nos lecteurs francophones, de l’étude de cas postée en anglais sur le site InsightCommunity.Vous pouvez également (re)lire l’introduction en français publiée il y a quelques jours sur ce...

FanBridge.com - Free Email and Mobile Fan List Management For Bands
FanBridge.com a service providing Free Email and Mobile Fan List Management For Bands now allow you to post update to Facebook, Twitter and MySpace all at once.

Advice For Musicians In 140 Characters Or Less - hypebot
I recently asked Hypebot's Twitter followers to contribute their best advice to musicians in twitterspeak's 140 characters or less. Below are a few of the best that that I gathered

BBC NEWS | UK | Wales | North West Wales | Fry's Twitter lift for singer, 16
A schoolgirl singer-songwriter has seen the online interest in her work soar after actor, writer and comedian Stephen Fry praised it on Twitter.

Spotify Improves Music Purchase Features - hypebot
Part of making money for Spotify and for the record labels its licensing from is its buy feature; and that got an upgrade this week:

Hypebot Music Industry News oct 2009
RIAA Can't Stop BitTorrent, Spotify Thinks Big, Scholl To NBC & More...

Tunecore's Widget Gets An Upgrade - hypebot
Tunecore's signature widget has gotten a major upgrade with many new features: image from reviews.cnet.com Streams up to 100 tracks in full. Has an optional Donate To The Band link. Links to the iTunes Store from each track. Join button collects fan...

Four Important Music Industry Trends You Need To Follow
To be the future, you have to think the future. There are many lessons that you, the all-powerful Indie music artist can learn and apply from the collapse of the music industry. Here’s a few, which I think are the most important. Burn them into your...