International music star Shakira is taking a new approach to releasing her latest music video: she’s doing it through a live stream on Ustream, which will be emedded on her Facebook Page. According to Sony, this is the first time an artist has used the platform to debut a music video (Updated: Sony is wrong. Chamillionaire [...]
Wanna make a hit song? The ’standard’ way of doing it is learning to play an instrument, finding a couple more musicians, practice, create some songs, find a publisher…
…or you can scrap all that and let the YouTube community do the entire work for you. I’ve Got Nothing is a song that’s been entirely crowdsourced. A [...]
This guest post comes from Jason Kadlec of Kadlec Consulting. As one of the first Topspin Certified consultants, Jason provides the advice and assistance needed to create and implement direct to fan businesses for artists and brands. You can follow Jason via his blog or Twitter.
Today I was emailing with a musician who had sent me a better than [...]
MySpace is over. Traffic is falling. Google’s new enhanced music search has pushed my Wikipedia entry further down the page. Why should I care what a bunch og geeks write about me anyway, right? Wrong. First, both MySpace and Wikepdia still get massive amounts of traffic; and to the degree that you can control anything [...]
Ownership is for pussies.
Oh, don’t e-mail, you same people who said we should save the album. Notice what a few years do? Radiohead says no more albums, Rush the same thing. So, when your favorite acts give up on the long form format, don’t you too?
I know you do. Because you’ve stopped sending me hate [...]
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. [...]
Yes, this is a real product. River Cuomo told Rolling Stone back in May that he and his Weezer bandmates were in talks to produce an official “wuggie” version of the body blanket that’s been dominating off-hour tv commercials in recent months. Now River’s dreams have come true and Snuggie is producing a special edition [...]
The MobBase iPhone app for musicians launched today with an exclusive partnership with IODA, one of the world’s leading digital distributors of independent music and film, and with broad support from top indie music labels including Controlled Substance Sound Labs, Welk Music Group,Vanguard Records and SMC Recordings. MobBase is the new service for musicians that makes it easy and inexpensive [...]
Im no longer at Clear Channel but payola is alive and well. Google has finally entered the music space with it’s One Box music search feature in brilliant fashion, well position to become the new radio, complete with favoritism and major label cronyism.
Google is now going to serve up links to songs from major online retailers [...]
