The Rap-Up (This Weeks Digital Music News)
- 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 cuts a deal with cuts a deal with HULU.
- Major music video site VEVO to launch December 8th.
- MySpace Music overhauls charts.
- Faceboook restricts iLike iPhone app.
- TunesPro sells hit songs at 19 cents each…for now.
Verizon to forward RIAA warning letters.
- Susan Boyle grabs Amazon’s biggest ever pre-sale.
- Bruce Houghton: What should we talk about at the Midem bar?
- Scott Perry: The Band Is Not The Brand.
- DiMA’s Jonathan Potter announces resignation.
- 1 Nine Month Old Band + 48 Hours = $10,000
- Bandcamp adds physical sales, bundling.
- iTunes gets more linkable.
- VIDEOS: Duran Duran’s John Taylor on the new music industry, What Is SoundExchange?, Chartjackers:Crowdsourcing To Top The UK Charts.
