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Ian Rogers On The Death Of The Music CD Business: “I Don’t Care.”

RadioGlue — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:36:01 +0000

Rogers, the former head of Yahoo Music, correctly points out, as others have before him, that it is not the music industry that is dying. It is the CD business. [MORE]

Source: TechCrunch

Live Nation Plans Digital Service, Takes On Entire Music Industry

RadioGlue — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:11:04 +0000

They are already the world’s largest concert promoters, they’ve branched out to form their own ticketing service and record labels, and now Live Nation will seek to challenge iTunes’ digital music dominance by launching their own music service through their website. [MORE]

Source: Rolling Stone

MySpace Music Puts The Industry On The Right Track

RadioGlue — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:44:03 +0000

MySpace music combines free on-demand streaming music with buyable downloads from Amazon, ringtones and video and other content. Soon the service will offer artist merchandise (tshirts, etc.) and concert tickets. [MORE]

Source: TechCrunch

Music groups reach accord on royalties

RadioGlue — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:22:20 +0000

Five music industry trade groups have reached what they call a breakthrough agreement on how royalties should be handled for streaming music online. [MORE]

Source: CNET

Music On microSD: I Can’t Believe The Labels Fell For This

RadioGlue — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:47:55 +0000

Forget buying an album on a USB stick, SanDisk just convinced the big labels to release (DRM free, thankfully) music on a 1 GB 15mm x 11mm x 1mm microSD card. And then they convinced Best Buy and Walmart to sell these things. [MORE]

Source: TechCrunch

Vivendi predicts resurgence in music industry

RadioGlue — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:58:05 +0000

The owner of the world’s largest music company is predicting a return to growth in the industry as new ways of making money from legal digital downloading come to fruition. [MORE]

Source: Financial Times

How the Music Business Spent the Summer Killing Itself

RadioGlue — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:35:25 +0000

On the streaming-music front in particular, the sad reality is that advertising revenue isn’t, and may never be, there to fully support the music industry’s wishful-thinking profit margins. [MORE]

RadioGlue » industry

Ian Rogers On The Death Of The Music CD Business: “I Don’t Care.”

Source: TechCrunch

Live Nation Plans Digital Service, Takes On Entire Music Industry

Source: Rolling Stone

MySpace Music Puts The Industry On The Right Track

Source: TechCrunch

Music groups reach accord on royalties

Source: CNET

Music On microSD: I Can’t Believe The Labels Fell For This

Source: TechCrunch

Vivendi predicts resurgence in music industry

Source: Financial Times

How the Music Business Spent the Summer Killing Itself

Source: AdvertisingAge