Music recommendation engine / social network Last.fm has launched an official, feature-rich application for the Android platform that enables users to stream radio stations (including personalized streaming radio), consult up-to-date concert information and also offers the ability to track users’ listening habits based on their Last.fm profile. [MORE]

Source: TechCrunch

Beyond albums, the widget also allows the embedding of playlists, artists’ best hits and radio stations. [MORE]

Source: TechCrunch

The device itself comes with a Billboard top tracks card that offers seven playlists–Alternative, Contemporary, Country, R&B/Hip-Hop, Rock, Workout, and Chillout–and will sell for $99.99. [MORE]

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Digital music, long the bane of the music industry, may finally be something that record label executives can smile about. [MORE]

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After years of relying on lawsuits to try to stop individuals from illegally sharing music, the recording industry decides to try a new tack. [MORE]

Source: cnet

Listen to the top (music) radio stations around the country and you will hear a great mix of music for the masses. Experienced program directors know that success hinges on the right mix of popular artists, up-and-comers, and an occasional surprise or two. This intricate balancing act will keep a mass audience coming back day after day, but what happens when that same audience goes online? Music for the masses becomes music for me.

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…a Madison, Wisconsin-based upstart called Networked Insights has issued a report claiming that on social networks and other interactive destinations, listeners prefer a different set of music than they do when listening to the radio or shopping for tunes to purchase. [MORE]

Source: Wired

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]

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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

While the stock market and music sales continue to decline, radio listening is reportedly on the rise. [MORE]

Source: Rolling Stone