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Apple News Alert: iTunes LP, Cheap Ringtones, Player Upgrades & Hella More

 Norah Jones performed (playing guitar instead of piano) and Steve Jobs made his first major pubic appearance today at Apple’s major music announcement. The assembled crowd of journalists greeted Jobs with thunderous applause usually reserved for conquering heroes.
Top music news from the press conference included:

Jobs reminded the crowd that iTunes is the #1 music [...]

[ More ] September 9th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Food For Thought |

Snoop Dogg Takes Executive Job at Priority Records…For Rizzle

Snoop will be taking his Doggfather status to the home of one of hip-hop’s most notorious labels, Priority as the newly appointed Creative Chairman. His job will be to relaunch Priority into the strong hip-hop force it used to be back in the days when it launched NWA, Ruthless Records, No Limit Records and Death [...]

[ More ] September 9th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Industry News |

What Will Record Labels Look Like in the Future?

The pioneers of the music industry couldn’t have seen this coming in their wildest dreams. When publishers were selling sheet music in the late 1800s, the idea of people privately sharing their product, independent of location and physical constraints, would have seemed ridiculous. But now record labels have been decimated by the digital shift, and [...]

[ More ] September 7th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Guest Posts |

Jay-Z Moves Release Date Due to BitTorrent Leak

 
Jay-Z is now rush-releasing his latest album, a response to a widespread leak.  The Blueprint 3 hits stores on Tuesday, September 8th, instead of a previously-scheduled September 11th.  Ahead of that, Rhapsody started offering the complete album download on Saturday.  The iTunes Store is still offering a pre-order, and Amazon is also offering a pre-order [...]

[ More ] September 6th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Industry News |

The Rewind (This Weeks Digital Music News)

 

Album sales fell another 18% last month.

Apple announces a September 9th “rock ‘n roll” event.
On a week when Wall Street appeared to loose confidence in the company, two senior executives exited Warner Music Group and the label group consolidated its Nashville operations.
Kyle Bylin’s Cradle to Grave: The Untold Story of Digital Natives.
Despite DJ AM’s [...]

[ More ] September 6th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Industry News |

How To Pimp Your Youtube Channel

YouTube() recently redesigned channel pages to make them more dynamic and easier to customize. The beta channels are now a hodgepodge of your uploads, favorites, playlists, and numerous in-channel editing options. Should you upgrade to the new design, you have a greater chance of creating an eye-catching channel that’s likely to keep your viewers engaged [...]

[ More ] September 5th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Food For Thought |

Can Red Bull Give Music Wings?

Well, probably not single handedly, but Tamara Conniff, a judge on “P.Diddy’s Starmaker”, wrote a blog at The Huffington Post addressing the need for a new business model in the music industry.  Most of the article is for the uninitiated, but towards the end she uses Red Bull’s new, slightly under the radar, record label [...]

[ More ] September 4th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Food For Thought |

Kevin Liles Goes Indie, Dips Out From Warner Music Group

The Warner Music Group has announced that “Executive Vice President Kevin Liles has decided to leave his day-to-day role at the company to pursue his own entrepreneurial opportunities. He will maintain a consulting relationship with the company.”
Liles is quoted:
“In the past couple weeks I’ve made one of the most important decisions of my life — [...]

[ More ] September 3rd, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Industry News |

How To Best Spend Your Limited Marketing Dollars

A friend recently shared with me that he thinks (based on some actual data) that a willfully given email address from a fan costs $1.50.

If I were to take this to a larger scale, I would direct the ads to the artist’s website or MySpace where the “clicker” would be led to hear the music. [...]

[ More ] September 2nd, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Guest Posts |