NARM 2009 State Of The Industry: Michael Masnick from NARM on Vimeo.

Fuck NBC, this is real “must-see tv”!

Trent Reznor Digg Dialogg from drawaside on Vimeo.

Topspin's Marketing With Data Presentation at Midem
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Cheap Plug: check me out on page 15
Major thanks to the homie Greg for the mention…I promise you I didn’t pay him lol.
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Free Music Marketing Guide Hand Delivers Every Tool and Resource Necessary To Have A Successful Music Career in 2010

A must read for anyone in the music industry from artists [...]

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 [...]

This is a guest post by Brian Mazzaferri

Brian Mazzaferri here, Lead Singer / Songwriter / NES-Player from Chicago NES-Rock band I Fight Dragons.  You may remember me from “How to get 200 new fans in a week“.
Well, it’s been a good while, and our mailing list has continued to grow.  In fact, it’s more than doubled [...]

Follow @digijeff for a roadmap on how to successfully build artist communities.
On November 10th, hip hop artist Chamillionaire [@Chamillionaire] went against the wishes of his record label, Universal Records, and livestreamed the premiere of his Good Morning music video to fans on Facebook and Ustream.
By all accounts, fans responded positively to the artist’s social media initiative. [...]