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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 — [...]
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. [...]
