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Whose MP3s Are They, Anyway? Twitter Acquires Music Service We Are Hunted, Launching Music App What Pandora's 200 Million Registered Listeners Can Mean for Under-the-Radar Musicians Turntable.fm Releases Piki to Help Find Music Recommendations From Friends How Sagging PC Sales Will Impact the Music Business Google launches Playbook Guides: Strategies ...

Indie subscriptions launch from Ninja Tune and Rough Trade Twitter Dives Into E-Commerce And Turns Hashtags Into Items For Sale  BMI on Rights Withdrawal: An Open Letter to the Music Industry, by Del Bryant The Difference Between Mobile and Portable Facebook is testing "Buy Tickets" links for events, but will ...

"Copy Culture" in the US and Germany Sales Are Off To A Good Start A Revamped Myspace Site Faces a Problem With Rights Spotify Continues Mobile Expansion With New Orange Deal Stop Making Them Wait And Give Them Them Music Pandora Listeners Created 1.6 Billion Stations in 2012 Africa's Music Industry: ...

WiMP to launch in Poland Legal MP3 Sites Are Still Buried by Google Search Results Universal to launch Capitol Records in UK CBS licenses library shows to Hulu Amazon Prime tests $7.99/month option to compete with Hulu+, Netflix Government to consider efficiency of Google's anti-piracy measures Pandora Media Sues Ascap Seeking ...

Global revenues from streaming will increase in 2012 by 40 percent to $ 1.1 billion. This prediction comes from the market researcher Strategy Analytics. In its Global Recorded Music Forecast, the U.S. researcher expect also a worldwide Donwload increase of 8.5 percent totaling global digital revenues $ 8.6 billion. The ...

SoundExchange Pays $204.4 Million In Digital Royalties Since Beginning Of 2012 Deezer is going slow against Spotify ShoutOut Radio Recreates Song Dedication On Facebook Spotify Grew Fast, Lost Money in 2011 - No Surprises Townsquare Media Group Acquires MOG Music Network and Will Rename the Business Townsquare Media

Tomorrow is the day Rock The Bells will kick off their 2012 Festival in San Bernadino! For those of you who are going, I hope you guys got your hotel space, tons of water, and food to bring with you, 'cause it will be HOT out there. Anyways, here are more (probably the last) artists who will be performing alongside their counterparts tomorrow (and hopefully for the next two festivals as well... For all dates, BIZ MARKIE will be joining DJ LANCE ROCK & FRIENDS on stage, adding yet another dimension to the “old-school-meets-new school” theme of this year’s festival.  For the California [...]

Universal-EMI Divestment Package Expected to Be Complete by Monday, Possibly Sooner Business Matters: YouTube Has Found Its Groove, Says Google More indies support Universal’s EMI deal, yet regulators still not convinced Hackathon: Can One Million Fan Interviews Recommend Music? Retailers criticise record industry’s release bunching Amazon Ramps Up Global Expansion, ...

Posting this as, as I am sensing this might be connected with Tupac's hologram sensation. On a press release just made, Pepsi will announce Thursday a deal with MJ's corp to use the late star's image for it's new global ad campaign. The promotion will vary depending on each country needs, (usual practice by multi-billion dollar

Spotify Play Button Launches, Aims For Ubiquity Shazam gets its first ‘New Album Preview’ stream with Train Spotify dips a toe in web waters, but isn’t yet swimming Will Facebook ruin Instagram? Saavn, India’s Spotify, dances to a different tune

Vevo To YouTube: Sorry, I Like Facebook, Too Amazon Digital Sales Up 29%, iTunes Sales Flat Facebook clicks with Instagram in $1 billion acquisition Here is why Facebook bought Instagram If Piracy Is So Devastating, Why Are We Seeing An Unprecedented Outpouring Of Creativity?

The Adele Effect: What 20122s First Quarter Might Have Looked Like Without '212 Sources: Yahoo Music Is Now Being Dismantled... Still Think Streams Are Killing Downloads? Think Again... Could CISPA Be the Next SOPA? Bands Improvise New Ways to Live-Stream Shows

Facebook & VEVO Really, Really Like Each Other [STATS] Spotify Denies Report Of 3 Million U.S. Users What Role Did Bundling and Exclusives Play in Madonna and Justin Bieber's Big Debuts? Business Matters: Internet Radio Services Need To Separate Themselves from the Crowd The YouTube Decision: What it means and ...

Russia’s Facebook is ‘holding back’ digital music Just Announced Google Hangouts 'On Air' Creates New Opportunities For Musicians This Is How the Single Killed the Recording Industry... Neil Young Trademarks New Audio Format

Facebook: 17.5 Million People Use Spotify YouTube strikes movie rental deal with Paramount Ringtones Are Still Bigger Than Spotify, Rhapsody, & Rdio Combined... EMI terminates deal with Grooveshark Why The Future of Shazam Is TV, Not Music

ISPs to Roll Out Copyright Alert Systems This Year, CCI's New Executive Director Says  BandRX Rebrands As FanRX, Releases Facebook Timeline Band App What's More Important: Your 'Mobile Strategy,' Or Your 'Cloud Strategy'? Megaupload Defendants Get Internet Access Back; Kim Dotcom Allowed To Record An Album Sony proposes sale of ...

The Weekend: Big Machine, Spotify, SAG+AFTRA, MC Hammer, Weird Al, Skifta... Digital Music Now Pays Artists More Than Pubs Musical ‘Big Data’ Problem Could Be Depriving Artists of Significant Revenue PRS for Music collections rose 3.2% to £630.8m in 2011 How The RIAA & MPAA Are Like The Anti-Innovation German ...

Business Matters: Subscription Services Gone Global Spotify removes play cap in five EU countries, extends free listening trial in US The Latest! Guvera, MegaUpload, UMG, Hertz, Sony/ATV, Google, HFA, Facebook, ReverbNation... Music Service Guvera Plans U.S. IPO, Hires Industry Vet Phil Quartararo As President Rdio promises ‘immediate focus’ on more ...

Songkick announces 100,000 new users via Spotify app Downloads Are Still 10 Times Bigger Than Subscriptions. And, They're Growing Faster... Interview: Rdio Prepares To Take On Spotify, Deezer Et Al In Europe Facebook’s Big Freemium Funnel Helps Spotify Et Al Find The Pay In Free Good Morning! Scruggs, Billboard, Songkick, ...

SiriusXM Files Lawsuit Against SoundExchange and A2IM, Alleging Licensing Interference Get Your Music on Google Play Without the Registration Fee via Fanbridge UK Music welcomes initial conclusions of Richard Hooper's digital feasibility study Sony/ATV offer EMI concessions in Europe, as Californian Attorney General takes an interest Live Nation Wins Summary ...