Tagged: digitalmusic

The Composites is a Tumblr that uses police composite sketch software to draw literary characters. CE Pro interviews producer and musician Alan Parsons about digital music. Jewcy interviews Ben Marcus about his new novel, The Flame Alphabet . In terms of style, this seems to be the least experimental of your books. This is a book with almost a classical narrative arc. How [...]

NPR is streaming the new Kate Bush album, 50 Words for Snow (out November 21st). FutureBook compares the digitization of the music industry vs. the book world. Other People interviews Joshua Mohr about his latest novel, Damascus . Gibson lists Neil Young's 10 greatest guitar [...]

Amazingly, ringtones are still one of the key pillars of the music business despite having peaked around 2005. As Peter Kakka wrote on AllThingsD : "If you're reading this, you probably haven't paid for a ringtone since 2007, and you probably don't know anyone who does. But there it is, generating two-point-one-billion dollars." Chart Of Digital Music Revenues Worldwide:

One Billion Mobile Phones in China, and My Music Is Not On Them. That was the title of last Tuesday's CMJ conference featuring The Orchard's VP of Strategy Prashant Bahadur, alongside other music experts Robert Singerman and Thomas Reemer from 88tc88, Eric de Fontenay, founder of Musicdish China and Jeffrey ...

Danny Bennett has been instrumental in the career of his father, T ony Bennett , yet he's received relatively limited public attention over the years. I recently spoke with Danny about his career, his marketing approach for Mr. Bennett and his longtime desire to push the music industry towards digital music and the web. Though this is a two-part interview, I could easily see doing an extended series on Danny's perspectives and experiences. Danny Bennett (Photo: Kelsey Bennett) [...]

Global marketing and communications giant J. Walter Thompson works to keep major brands like Bayer, Ford, HSBC, Johnson & Johnson, Shell and Unilever ahead of the curve. In a new study, they concluded that in 2011 "we got a clearer glimpse of what the second decade of digital music will look like - and it's quite different from the first in many ways." The result is a broad and insightful report: "Things To Watch: Music Edition" "We'll be accessing, discovering and sharing music in new ways, changes that are happening just [...]

When we wrote about ReDigi 's plan to create a marketplace for used digtal downloads , it caused quite a stir . Could selling used downloads be legal? "A legal music download is generally issued as personal license to use," wrote attorney Rob Falk , "and I believe that by its terms, is non-transferable." Not so fast, countered the company who said they've created propritary tech that makes resale possible and legal. With ReDigi 's launch today, and the subsequent outcry that's certain to come from record labels, [...]

According to a recent survey by the Bundesverband Musikindustrie (Federal Association of Music Industry) in Germany, legally purchased digital music is an expanding market in which it is worth investing. The music industry has often been criticized for having too few available digital music and streaming deals - which is ...

Click here to view the video on YouTube. This is an interview with Adam Kidron (CEO of Boinc) and Mark Mulligan on the influence of social sites in spreading music around. Like many social media sites, Boinc is set to launch a new music service soon in the UK. Could it spread here? Who will dominate the " influencer " space of music online?

Marina attended the BT Digital Music Awards in London a couple of days ago, and we were treated to a live performance of her latest single Radioactive. She starts things off nice and slow with the beautiful acoustic version then, as I was hoping, she bursts into the dance version! I'm loving the whole Electra Heart theme, the blonde hair and 502s dress really work for her, and can't wait to hear more of the music! Radioactive was released in the U.K. yesterday ( iTunes [...]

. . . The physical format is on its way out. This is apparent in many areas of life, not just in music formatting. Amazon is selling Kindles like crazy, while their glue-and-paper book revenues are tanking. Blogs are wiping the floor with magazines. People would rather download the HD version of a movie than buy a DVD. Even the United States Postal Service is in deep trouble. We've heard plenty about the decline of album sales. The music industry was hit earlier and harder than just about any other business sector. Theoretically, it's only a [...]

In this new episode of This Week in Music , Ian Rogers is joined by Antony Bruno , who just exited his position as Billboard's Digital Editor, Rachel Masters - Partner & Co-Founder of Red Magnet Media, Bob Moczydlowsky -VP, Product & Marketing at Topspin and Tyler Crowley CEO & Founder at Skweal for an in depth roundtable discussion of the big changes on Facebook and music's growing importance there.

Best Male Artist in association with the Daily Star Playlist Winner: Olly Murs Best Female Artist in association with Sugarscape Winner: Jessie J Best Group in association with Clickmusic Winner: JLS Best International Artist or Group in association with RWD Winner: Bruno Mars Best Independent Artist or Group in association with I Like Music Winner: Adele [...]

New MySpace owner Specific Media has trimmed 8% of its 750 person staff. ( TechCrunch ) When Specific bought MySpace for $35 million a couple of months ago, it cut MySpace's 400 person team by 50%. and promised revamp plans by late summer. So far, nothing. Glenn Peoples offers statiscial proof that 2011 is digital music's tipping point: "American consumers have purchased an additional 12 million digital albums and 90.5 million tracks on top of what they had purchased at the same [...]

Despite being nominated for six - Adele only got one BT Digital Music Award at the Roundhouse last night...

The Future of Digital Music panel at Facebook's F8 conference was a bit disappointing due to the fact that they didn't actually address the future till the last question and that's when things got a bit more interesting. It was quick and fragmented but I've gathered some of the highlights. The Future of Digital Music panel was moderated by Justin Osofsky, Director, Platform Partnerships at Facebook. Panelists included Troy Carter, Lady Gaga's manager, Daniel Ek, Spotify Founder and CEO, and Bob Pittman, who is now at Clear Channel but has a long history [...]

The list of nominees for the UK's annual BT Digital Music Awards have now been announced. The awards will be held at Camden's Roundhouse on Thursday 29 September, and will be broadcast on ITV2 on Monday 3rd October at 10pm and Friday 7th October at 7pm. The 2011 BT Digital Music Award Nominees: Best Male Artist in association with the Daily Star Playlist Example Matt Cardle Olly Murs Plan B Professor Green Tinie Tempah Best Female Artist in association with Sugarscape Adele Cheryl [...]

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The battle over digital music royalties has begun again. The U.S. Copyright Royalty Judges have opened a new proceeding to set the statutory rates for 2013-2017 with a decision expected by the end of 2012. In recent weeks, Sirus XM has reportedly been talking to record labels and other rights holders about direct licensing. At the same time, in a move that could affect digital music providers beyond Sirius, SoundExchange has signaled they will push for much higher payments. "We have long been preparing for this proceeding, and are planning to seek a [...]

Global digital music revenues will more than double from $7.4 billion in 2010 to 20.1 billion by 2015 , according to the new Digital Music Market Outlook by Companies And Markets . That's a compound annual growth rate of 22.1% over the period. Subscriptions will be the fastest growing segment, growing at a 60.8% CAGR to 2015. In terms of digital music market value, the US, Japan, UK, France and Germany are the key digital music markets, together accounting for 79.5% of the [...]