This just in from digital distributor TuneCore:
According to the iTunes Store’s trending data, Hip hop artist Drake has logged the two highest selling weeks ever for a DIY artist, totaling almost 300,000 song downloads in only two weeks fueled by the single “Best I Ever Had”.
Jackson’s final rehearsal, at Staples Center in Los Angeles. Photo: Kevin Mazur/AEG/Getty Images, via image.net
As Michael Jackson’s body is being prepared for transport to a public viewing at the Neverland Ranch (see update below), his music rules the charts once again.
Billboard’s latest sales charts show the king of pop as the first artist ever to [...]
Access to music - i.e. a simple click-to-play, anywhere, anytime, anything - is replacing ownership. This trend will quickly accelerate due to the massive global build-up in cheap wireless broadband connectivity, leading us swiftly to the point where listening to a song will be exactly the same as downloading it (at least in practical terms, [...]
How to navigate the vast sea of music blogs and market effectively? The approach can easily become scattershot and misdirected, simply because of the shifting nuances of each blog (or site, community, or whatever). And, then, everything changes.
That is a problem currently being approached by the Echo Nest, a group that first disclosed its ‘Fanalytics’ [...]
A First Look & How It Compares
Information and trends spread across the global net with lightening speed. Bloggers and fans love a show, hate a single, publish a photo, share an impression. Each of these “events”, whether they are on the rise or decline and where they are coming from all come together to [...]
How indie artist Amanda Palmer made $19,000 in 10 hours on Twitter: The Friday Freaks story and an Amanda Palmer video interview.
YouTube is reporting a 1700% jump in mobile video uploads. The’ve also made six improvements and are upgrading the channels feature, but if you use it (and you should), you may need to do [...]
Naughty by Nature x Microsoft. Naughty by Nature has joined a growing list of hip-hop artists supporting various Microsoft products. The group has specifically partnered with the HTC Touch Mobile device by promoting the product through advertising, appearances and a contest to see them perform in Los Angeles.
“As a fan of Microsoft products, I’m super [...]
You’ve probably already heard that Michael Jackson has died: it’s going to be all over both mainstream and social media for some time yet. Music sites and stores have been quick to post their tributes to the star, too.
So, We7 has a tribute playlist, while Spotify’s (public) office playlist today is purely Jackson songs. Imeem [...]
