Rage Against the Machine beat X Factor winner in charts following grassroot facebook campaign
Rock band Rage Against The Machine has won the most competitive battle in years for the Christmas number one. The band's single, Killing In The Name, sold 500,000 downloads beating X Factor winner Joe McElderry's The Climb by 50,000 copies to...

Seth Godin: 8 Questions And A Why - hypebot
Marketing guru Seth Godin published this list on his blog this week. He wrote it for marketers and brands, but he could be talking to any artist or music entrepreneur as well.

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Lefsetz Letter » Blog Archive » John Mayer/Bon Jovi
If older folk still buy music and younger people steal it, why did John Mayer sell almost twice as many albums the first week out as Bon Jovi? John Mayer sold 301,204 copies of his new album, "Battle Studies", this week. Whereas last week, Bon...

Mariah Carey Showing How The New Music Business Model Works For Megastars | Techdirt
A couple people sent in this rather interesting story from the Times Online about how Mariah Carey is reinventing the music business model. Well, that's basically what the article suggests. What's more accurate is that she's more or less...

John Mayer Embraces New Media and Sells 300,000 records « The New Rockstar Philosophy
John Mayer just released Battle Studies last week and so far has sold over 300,000 copies. Not bad in today’s world of free music. Not bad at all. It helps that he has over 2 and half million twitter followers and is active on his YouTube channel and...

How to Write Emails with Hooks « Kadlec Consulting
Some advices on how to write better email for your fans.

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