iTunes has opened its iTunes LP and Extras platforms to indie artists, labels and developers with a new set of instructions posted on their web site.
Automated electronic submission to iTunes LP and Extra will be added in the first quarter of 2010. Until then, the process is manual and limited. An existing iTunes contract is [...]

Should CD prices be lower? A record store joke: “What do you call a CD that retails for more than $9.99?”
MySpace buys imeem at a fire sale price.
Merlin finally makes a deal with MySpace that should help all indies.
Do MTV and RealNetworks want to sell Rhapsody?
Sony says that it wants to take on iTunes.
Snoop Dog: This is show “business”
EMI [...]

Vitamin Water, the company that made 50 Cent filthy rich, is launching a new iPhone app in partnership with 50 Cent and developer Romplr called “50’s Sound Lab” which will allow you to mix remix parts of 50 Cent’s album on their iPhone including his recent single “Baby By Me.” The best user-generated remix will [...]

Ask indie musician and self-promotion queen Amanda Palmer a question.
Topspin’s Ian Rogers share details of his experiences as amanager.
Traffic has jumped at Lala and iLike since the Google partnership.
MySpace Music may limit bandwidth and start charging.
“Wire” Producers To Bring Record Industry To HBO. Who Should Play The Roles?
Live Nation And Ticketmaster Both Beat Analysts’ Pre-Merger Expectations.
Are Billboard and The Hollywood Reporter [...]

The Orchard’s shares doubled on stock buyout news.
Did Qtrax tell another lie? Search deal with Baidu may be  less than claimed.
Falling traffic at MySpace will mean $100 million less in ad payments from Google.
MobBase introduced a d.i.y. music iPhone apps. But with 100,000 apps will it get lost?
iLike & MySpace offer free tracks to promote new enhanced Google music search. [...]

Google’s new enhanced music search was the big news of the week.  But is it really a game changer? Watch video interviews from the announcement and take it for a test drive yourself to find out.
Major upgrades at Topspin?
EXEC SHUFFLE: Cameo Carlson was named EVP Universal Motown Republic plus changes atTunecore and EMI.
Facebook now accounts for 6% of all [...]

Ustream has just started to roll out a new feature for its live video streams that allows commenters to syndicate their thoughts across four of the web’s largest social sites: Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and AIM instant messenger. The feature will go live for Featured shows beginning on Monday, and everyone else will have access soon [...]

Listen To Google’s Discover Music Announcement Online
This afternoon’s announcement of Google’s new enhanced music search service that includes play and purchase functionality courtesy of lala and iLike has been an open secret for more than a week. (see details) But that doesn’t mean that today’s press conference won’t include a few surprises.

In case you didn’t get [...]

More Video, Artist Dashboard, iTunes Purchase
MySpace Music has gotten a major upgrade with the addition of a new music video hub, an artist dashboard offering analytics and track purchase via iTunes. The new features come at a time when the parent MySpace site is losing market share to Facebook.
Music Video Hub
MySpace hopes to challenge YouTube’s [...]

None of the companies involved will confirm the new Google Music service – we have “no comments” or absolute silence from Google, LaLa, MySpace and iLike. But the new service is all but confirmed. And we have the screenshots showing how the service, which will be announced on October 28, will look to prove it.
Matt [...]