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Canada's public broadcaster launches free CBC Music service Near-Record Ratings for the Grammys. CBS Credits the Web. YouTube's Offer Video-Makers Can't Refuse: We're Putting All Your Stuff Everywhere European Parliament's president expresses ACTA concerns Happy Valentine's Day! Facebook Shares Most Popular Songs For New Loves & Breakups

Spotify's Daniel Ek On Streaming Royalties, Social Media & The Future [INTERVIEW] And the Winner Is... The Complete List of Grammy Nominees & Winners MySpace traffic and signups up since December, say new owners Whitney Houston: Music world pays homage to fallen superstar 'The Artist' dominates BAFTAs

Warner Music Losses Grow 44%, Revenue Flat Despite Digital Gains Shazam-enabled Grammys connect fans with the music [with video] Backbeat: Esperanza Spalding, Anthony Hamilton Perform @ Grammy in the Schools Live! The Music Business in Five: CMU

RIAA chief hits back at Wikipedia and Google over SOPA protests Good Morning! Converse, Gorillaz, Dotcom, McCartney, iLike, Kobalt, Ticketfly... Rock Hall adds 6 groups to list of inductees Facebook Hits A New Record High Value Of At Least $103.4 Billion Adele's '212 is #1 for 19th time

Radio: From Tesla To Turntable.fm [INFOGRAPHIC] Facebook's Mobile Plan: Carrier Billing, Analytics For Apps Via Bango Deal? Business Matters: Vevo Should Pay Up, Say Songs Music, Downtown, TuneCore UK Music launches diversity charter Unbundling the Album: A Business Case for Releasing Single Songs

Hear-Like-Buy: Why Spotify Is Marketing, Not Commerce Verizon, Redbox plan Netflix challenge ReDigi Successfully Fends Off EMI's Preliminary Injunction To Shutter Site Rdio shows Android love with totally new app Good Morning! Super Bowl, M.I.A., Voice, X Factor, Rdio, Bandsintown, Grammys...

Bonnaroo's First Decade Nets $5 Million To Charities 2012 Grammys Embrace Digital, Mobile and Social Media Good Morning! M.I.A., Sister Sledge, Sony Music, Madonna, Tiesto, Spotify, Facebook... Warner pulled into digital royalties dispute via Sister Sledge lawsuit Tone Deaf Madonna Film survives amid digital world

iTunes Match Is Ruining The Lives Of Customers And Rappers By Censoring Explicit Tracks Doubling Ticket Sales and Breaking Industry Records, Ticketfly Starts 2012 With a Bang! SXSW Accelerator Names Music Tech Finalists Shazam Goes All Superbowl On Us… Is Audio the New QR Code?

AmazonMP3 Pulls All TuneCore Tracks In EU & UK, Distributor Alleges Payment Issues Pirate Bay and co-founder respond to Supreme Court decision Sony sees $2.9 billion loss, new CEO warns of pain Bruce Springsteen Playing Exclusive Apollo Concert for SiriusXM Subscribers Facebook's $5bn IPO doc reveals $3.7bn revenues and $1bn ...

Vivo Earned $150 million in Revenue Last Year Says CEO Rio Caraeff Neil Young: 'Digital Is Degrading Our Music, Not Improving It…' Music Marketing With Free SoundCloud Story Wheel Sony's Kazuo Hirai to Replace Howard Stringer as CEO Warner Music Group Chairman Loves Spotify, Calls Google Music an "oxymoron"

Nada Surf – "When I was Young" Video + Fallon Performance MPme, Crowdsurfing, Wild Chords and Webdoc win the music-focused Midemlab Competition Folklorist's Global Jukebox Goes Digital Twitter Is Not a Media Company, CEO Says MIDEM 2012: Round Up (Orchard, CueSongs, LyricFind, SoundCloud, WebDoc) The Sky is Rising: The Entertainment ...

WebdocAnnounces Deals With SoundCloud, Songkick & Topspin @ #Midem Seymour Stein Honored With Billboard's Icon Award @MIDEM Richard Gottehrer, Ice-T, Talking Heads Honor Billboard Icon Seymour Stein 'Shellac In His Veins': The Billboard Icon Award Interview With Seymour Stein Google is the problem, U2 manager tells MIDEM Liveblog: Google, UMG, ...

Last week, The Orchard's CEO, Brad Navin, spoke at San Francisco's Bandwidth conference. He discussed the effect of variable pricing and discounting on the digital music market, and then lead a discussion on pricing strategies. Digital Music News recaps on Friday's discussion here, and highlights some of the key points surrounding the issue: Most people [...]

The RIAA has informed the information-gathering company MediaSentry that it will no longer need its services for gathering evidence against people who share Norah Jones songs using outdated Internet protocols , a move that may be in line with the trade organization's recent decision to stop filing mass lawsuits against people suspected of uploading files . In MediaSentry's place, the organization has hired another company, the cutely named Danish antipiracy outfit DtecNet Software ApS , to hunt down those people who may be playing pirate in between bouts of wank mining. Will DtecNet work with the RIAA [...]

A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All has redefined the holiday special for the new millennium. But it may also have redefined holiday songs for the 21st century as well, especially Willie Nelson and Stephen Colbert's "Little Dealer Boy." Think "Little Drummer Boy" 2.0, substitute the phrase "finest gifts" for marijuana, and you're there. Or better yet, just check out the video of the entire song at right. It's a double-exposure romp that might make Jesus blush, if he wasn't already rumored to have used cannabis himself . After all, as Willie sings in [...]

A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All has redefined the holiday special for the new millennium. But it may also have redefined holiday songs for the 21st century as well, especially Willie Nelson and Stephen Colbert's "Little Dealer Boy." Think "Little Drummer Boy" 2.0, substitute the phrase "finest gifts" for marijuana, and you're there. Or better yet, just check out the video of the entire song at right. It's a double-exposure romp that might make Jesus blush, if he wasn't already rumored to have used cannabis himself . After all, as Willie sings in the [...]

From remixing Rod Stewart, DJ Shadow and Radiohead to performing a kitchen-sink set with typewriters and wine glasses under the moniker Stripmall Architecture, San Francisco's Halou is a productive factory of musical ideas. Launched in 1995 by Ryan and Rebecca Coseboom and featuring engineer Count and others, Halou is currently hawking two 2008 efforts, its digital-only self-titled fourth full-length and an EP called Sawtooth . Halou has had help from, and helped out, some bigshots along the way. Ryan and Count have aided the production of bands as different as Blackalicious, Keane and No Doubt, while [...]

"A lot of people have asked me what I get from writing, besides residuals," Neil Young cracks wise in the early minutes of Sugar Mountain -- Live at Canterbury House 1968 CD/DVD, currently streaming on NPR ahead of its December 2 release. "I didn't know what [a residual] meant until I got it. But I remembered from then on." And on, judging by this niche effort, which should make Young fans feel right at home but leave the rest looking for a better entry point into his seminal work. Recorded shortly after the implosion of [...]

Just as most net-savvy Listening Post readers predicted, Dr Pepper's servers crashed when Chinese Democracy buyers logged on and tried to cash in on the gratis sodas offered by the soft-drink maker. It had bet -- wrongly or rightly, depending on your marketing skills -- free drinks if Guns N' Roses ever got around to finishing its anticipated new effort. Dr Pepper is trying to make good on the gamble, and its bad IT skills, by extending the deadline until 6 p.m. EST. Here's how you can still get your carbonated fix: [...]

On Sunday, Guns 'N' Roses fans finally get to collect earnings on Dr Pepper's bet that the tumultuous band would never finish Chinese Democracy -- for 24 hours. After that, the freebies revert to huge traffic for the soft-drink manufacturer's servers. "We never thought this day would come," Dr Pepper's vice president of marketing Tony Jacobs told Variety , speaking no doubt of November 23, which also happens to be Chinese Democracy 's release date. "But now that it's here, all we can say is: The Dr Pepper's [...]