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Music Industry Sues MSU Golf Coach

Source: www.wwmt.com.com --- 4 days ago
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Study Suggests Music Industry Embrace Piracy

Source: yro.slashdot.org --- 2 days ago
unassimilatible writes to tell us that according to the Financial Times, the Music Industry should embrace illegal file-sharing websites. A recent study of the recent Radiohead album release found that huge numbers of illegal downloads actually helped the band's popularity and, by extension, concert ticket sales. "Radiohead's release of In Rainbows on a pay-what-you-want basis last October generated enormous traffic to the band's own website and intense speculation about how much fans had paid. He urged record companies to study the outcome and accept that file-sharing sites were here to stay. 'It's time to stop swimming against the tide of what people want,' he said." Update 19:46 GMT by SM: several readers (including the original author) have written in to mention that it isn't stressed enough that this study was engaged by the Music Industry itself, making the findings that much more interesting. Take that as you will. Read more of this story at Slashdot. ...

New In Rainbows ' Numbers Offer Lessons for Music Industry

Source: www.wired.com --- 5 days ago
A British economist teamed with a firm that measures file sharing to show that Radiohead's 'pay what you want' album release strategy was a success, despite millions of copies being traded online. ...

Tap Tap Revenge Approaches 1 Million Users, Music Industry Takes Notice

Source: www.techcrunch.com --- 6 days ago
Tapulous, the company behind Tap Tap Revenge, has announced that the popular iPhone app will hit 1 million installs some time this weekend. The app is the second we’ve heard from to hit the milestone (Facebook reached it last week), and is another testament to the extremely rapid growth some applications have seen on [...] ...

Bill O'Reilly, Music Industry expert

Source: www.salon.com --- 6 days ago
Fox News host Bill O'Reilly has a real talent for getting himself in public feuds. O'Reilly has been declaring victory in one of his most recent entanglements, this one with rapper Nas , but it turns out that he had to grossly misrepresent some facts in order to do so. On his show last week, O'Reilly gloated, Nas' "new album is a bomb, a disaster, a catastrophe ... Two years ago, his last album sold 355,000 copies in its first week, and this one has sold 187,000 copies. Not good. I hope I'm not a 'racist' for pointing that out." (In that last sentence, O'Reilly was referring to a rally Nas led against Fox News last week, when he also delivered a petition signed by more than 600,000 people calling on the network to "end its pattern of racist attacks.") Then, in his " Pinheads and Patriots " segment this Wednesday, O'Reilly took a moment to dance on Nas' grave again. "When we last left this rapper, he was calling FOX racist in a pathetic attempt to promote his new album. As we reported, the album is a bomb. It opened weak, and in its second week dropped 66 percent in sales. Normally, we wouldn't gloat over something like that, but Nas is a bad guy, in addition to being a pinhead," the host said. Both statements were stunning if only for some rather pertinent -- and easily ascertained -- details O'Reilly left out. Nas' most recent album, "Unitled," debuted at No. 1, becoming only the third rap album to top the charts this year. And e ...

Music Industry 'should embrace illegal websites'

Source: www.ft.com --- 3 days ago
The author a study of Radiohead's last album release, issued on a 'pay-what-you-want' basis last October, is urging record companies to accept that file-sharing sites are here to stay ...

Unsigned Artist & Wife Take on Entire Music Industry Alone

Source: ca.prweb.com --- 6 days ago
Five Times August has major success with Do-It-Yourself approach. (PRWeb Aug 1, 2008) Read the full story at http://ca.prweb.com/releases/2008/08/prweb1165054.htm ...

Music Industry Turns to Ad-supported Downloads — in China

Source: mashable.com --- 4 hours ago

Google on Wednesday announced that it has launched a Music search service in China that allows users to access Music legally online through its new service called Music Onebox. According to the company, the service is backed by some record labels and will be supported by advertising revenue. As the AP points out, paid Music downloads in China are “practically nonexistent.” According to most estimates, more than 99 percent of all downloaded files in China are pirated and legitimate sales represent less than 1 percent of the world’s total Music revenue, reaching just $76 million. Each time someone uses Google’s Music Onebox to find a song, they’re redirected to Top100.cn , which will offer them the opportunity to download the track for free. The record labels will then incur the revenue coming from the advertising on the site. There’s no way to tell if this new model will help curb piracy in China and record labels are more than a little hesitant to allow people to download songs and rely on advertising to turn a profit, but it’s the first step in the right direction that could see them come around and start trusting the Web a bit more. That said, this will never come to the United States. Let’s face it – iTunes is the world’s largest Music retailer and people seem to be more than happy buying Music that’s littered with DRM. Realizing that, why would the Music Industry want to bring an ad-supported downloading business to US shores? ...

Music Industry should embrace illegal websites

Source: www.neowin.net --- 1 day ago
The Music Industry should embrace illegal file-sharing websites, according to a study of Radiohead’s last album release that found huge numbers of people downloaded it illegally even though the band allowed fans to pay little or nothing for it. “Rights-holders should be aware that these non-traditional venues are stubbornly entrenched, incredibly popular and will never go away,” said Eric Garland, co-author of the study, which concluded there was strong brand loyalty to controversial “torrent” and peer-to-peer services. Radiohead’s release of In Rainbows on a pay-what-you-want basis last October generated enormous traffic to the band’s own website and intense speculation about how much fans had paid. He urged record companies to study the outcome and accept that file-sharing sites were here to stay. “It’s time to stop swimming against the tide of what people want,” he said. View: Full article at the Financial Times Read full story... ...

Andy Abraham denies quitting Music Industry

Source: www.digitalspy.co.uk --- 2 days ago
Andy Abraham denies claims that he is giving up on his Music career. ...

Music Industry Considerations, 2008 [Dr. Dre]

Source: gawker.com --- 1 day ago
Dr. Dre's loooooong-awaited new album Detox is allegedly dropping in the next 60 days, to coincide with the launch of a co-branded Dr. Dre cognac. The Loch Ness Monster is also scheduled to appear as soon as its own co-branded cognac launches. [ Idolator ] ...

Sugababes, Automatic, Sam Sparro for Music Industry drama

Source: www.nme.com --- 1 day ago
The Automatic, Sugababes and Sam Sparro will perform in a new online drama about the Music Industry. ...

WMG Call: Bronfman: We're Not Doing As Bad As The Rest Of The Music Industry

Source: www.paidcontent.org --- 3 hours ago

Edgar Bronfman, Jr., Warner Music Group's Chairman and CEO, began the call offering a set stats designed to show how the company is outpacing the rest of the Music Industry—or at least doing less worse. However, major successes came from albums by Frank Sinatra and Madonna, not exactly rising young artists. Online digital front, ringtone revenue remains small and was flat in Q2, especially in Europe and the U.S., but Bronfman has expectations that mobile revenue growth will grow soon as western consumers have been gradually adopting the portable Music listening and purchasing habits that are entrenched in Japan. In terms of other experiments designed to grow digital, Bronfman pointed to Jason Mraz's album We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things . The album release was preceded by sales of bundled tracks over three months. Ultimately, WMG was able to offer two versions of Mraz' album on iTunes, with the premium release eventually outselling the basic one on Apple's ( NSDQ: AAPL ) download store. WMG is also working with Nokia ( NYSE: NOK ) on its "Comes With Music" feature, which is slated to launch later this year and Bronfman is hopeful about the benefits. He also emphasized short-term business deals for digital to maintain flexibility and see what works and what doesn't. -- Not playing games : Bronfman calls current video game licensing fees on a per song basis "paltry for video games, such as Guitar Hero . But the actual royalty deri ...

Central Michigan University challenges Music Industry on download crackdown

Source: blog.mlive.com --- 21 hours ago
PORTLAND, Ore. — Another university has challenged the Recording Industry Association of America over snooping on Music downloads. Central Michigan University has asked Michigan regulators to order a contractor for the RIAA to "cease and desist all investigation activities concerning... ...

Music Industry ‘Should Embrace Illegal Web Sites’

Source: voices.allthingsd.com --- 2 days ago
The Music Industry should embrace illegal file-sharing Web sites, according to a study of Radiohead’s last album release that found huge numbers of people downloaded it illegally even though the band allowed fans to pay little or nothing for it. ...

Study: Music Industry Should Embrace Illegal Downloads

Source: www.motherjones.com --- 2 days ago

Hey, look, smart people are saying this too! A new study that looks at Radiohead's online release of In Rainbows last year recommends record companies acceptnay, celebratethe realities of file-sharing. As we mentioned here a few months back, despite the fact that the British combo's album was available on a pay-what-you-want basis, around twice as many people bypassed the official site anyway to use file-sharing web sites or torrents. Maybe, like me, they had trouble logging on to the official site? Yet the study, by the MCPS-PRS Alliance, which represents Music rights holders, and Big Champagne, an online media measurement company, sees this as a positive, calling the Radiohead release a "success story" that resulted in strong ticket sales and enormous publicity. Ultimately, the study concludes, record labels should consider "the costs and benefits of control versus the costs and benefits of scale." The UK Guardian suggests purveyors of frozen delicacies take up this strategy as well, by "giving away free ice-cream and selling advertising on the cones," but I'd like to point out the equivalency would be downloading the recipe for ice cream, wouldn't it? ...

Making Excellent Music: Scholar360 — CalPoly — Music Industry Educators

Source: www.webwire.com --- 5 days ago
Scholar360 LMS-SN, an eLearning solutions and services provider, announced their collaborative partnership with CalPoly and Music Industry Educators. - - Under this collaborative relationship, Music ... [WebWire - Friday, August 01, 2008] ...

Lindsay’s legacy a healthy country Music Industry

Source: www.thewest.com.au --- 1 day ago
With a back catalogue of 60 albums and more than 500 songs he composed, musician Reg Lindsay leaves behind a thriving Australian country Music Industry thanks to his groundbreaking work. Lindsay died ...

Music Industry should embrace BitTorrent

Source: www.fmtech.co.za --- 3 days ago
The Music Industry should embrace illegal online file-sharing services, according to a study of Radiohead’s last album release that found huge numbers of people downloaded it illegally even though the band allowed fans to pay little or nothing for it. “Rights-holders should be aware that these non-traditional venues are stubbornly entrenched, incredibly popular and will never [...] ...

New Music: Solange - ‘F*** the Industry’

Source: www.rap-up.com --- 5 days ago
If you didn’t know by now, Solange is not her picture-perfect sister Beyoncé. To drive that point home even further, Solo has released a song called “F*** the Industry (Signed Sincerely),” which samples Kanye’s “Everything I Am.” In it, Solange name checks her sister, Ashanti, Keyshia Cole, and Mary J. Blige, and addresses [...] ...

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