2010 February | Cr@zyEye Music Services

More Music Industry News: New EMI Board Member, Spotify vs. MOG, Twitter Ads, Facebook Patent

28Feb

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EMI has appointed Peter Williams to the board of one of its holding companies. Williams has joined the board of Maltby Investments to act as an intermediary between Terra Firma and Citigroup, which financed the acquisition of the struggling label group.
Spotify vs. MOG battle heats up. (FT)
New acts to labels: "we won't tweet". (CNet)
The ongoing evolution of social networks:
- Twitter to add search ads ala Google. (All Things Digtal) There's opportunity here for music marketers.
- Facebook Patents Social Network Feeds, Raising Innovation Worries. (Epicenter)

Live Nation & Ticketmaster Release Fiscal Reports. (FMQB)
China Times: Learn from Korean pop idols' global ambition. (Taiwan News)
R.I.P. T. Bone Wolk

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REWIND: The Music Industry’s Week In Review

28Feb

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Fan to artist funding site SellaBand declared bankruptcy on Monday, but by week's end was back online with a new owner
Jamendo to shift gears under new owners
Moral Panics And Music Journalism - Another great Kyle Bylin essay.
iTunes surpassed 10 billion songs sold.
Music streaming service MOG.com got another $9.5M in funding and will expand into UK.
EMI: Abbey Road Studios Not For Sale ...Yet.
Indie labels boycott Limewire at Digital Music East
The Orchard ups Brad Navin from interim to full CEO
Spotify Explains Weekend Outage
Where Music Is Made Matters: Roanoke, VA
Kyle Bylin: The Fate of a Format: Will MusicDNA Catch On?
An interview with Kevin Maney of Trade-Off: Why Some Things Catch On, and Others Don't
ReverbNation & Audiolife partner for the new artist Reverb Store
Dropcards download cards got an upgrade

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27Feb

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Pandora ? Spotify

26Feb

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"The key here is that Pandora ? Spotify.

One is a radio, the other a record collection."

- Eliot Van Buskirk, Wired's Epicenter blog

Of Course On-Demand Music Replaces Sales - It’s Supposed To

More: Spotify: We're NOT Cannibalizing Download Sales!

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Spotify: We’re NOT Cannibalizing Download Sales!

26Feb

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But Offer Little Proof

Responding to a recent NPD survey, that it "cannibalizes" download sales ,a Spotify spokesperson told Fast Company:

"There is other data out there to prove the exact opposite of that report," a spokesman says, pointing to a report in Billboard magazine in which Scott Cohen, the London-based founder/VP of The Orchard, says Spotify is already boosting income for labels in two ways: 'First, the more tracks are streamed on Spotify the more downloads occur on other services,' Cohen tells Billboard. 'We are not seeing any cannibalization'."
"Spotify is not just about downloads. We're generating a mixture of revenue which includes downloads but also ad sales and subscriptions both of which are growing rapidly."