Local music goer, “Dan” went to the Brett Dennen show at the Independent, in San Francisco. Fellow music listeners were shocked when he approached the merch table. A nearby bystander commented “I’ve always seen those at shows, but never seen anyone walk up to one.” One person in the crowd shouted out “Dude! Stop, I’ll [...]

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Advertisers/bands can choose to target, say, fans of the band Coldplay who live in San Francisco. The advertisers then pay MySpace each time someone clicks on their ad. Ads can link to other MySpace pages, such as a band’s profile, or external Web sites, like a ticket-buying site.

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While MySpace was able to sign up the four Majors the independent labels were left out and are not happy. There will be an “exodus” of music artists from MySpace over the website’s new music download service, a record label boss has warned. Koch president Bob Frank said: “Our issue is not with the majors [...]

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iTunes could have a real competitor (finally). MySpace will “give its roughly 120 million users free access to hundreds of thousands of songs from the world’s largest recording labels. the music can be played only on” internet connected computers and will have ads. You’ll also be able to purchase it from Amazon.com, which sells songs [...]

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Record Labels and Box stores have a new format they want to sell you. Sony, Universal, Warner, EMI and retailers Best Buy Co. and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. are set to announce the sale of “slotMusic,” microSD memory cards. the new format is meant to address two intertwined trends. Most albums are still sold in a [...]

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Popcuts, which publicly launched its Web site in early August, charges users 99 cents per song. Thereafter, whenever someone else buys the same song, those who have already bought it get paid in credit that can be redeemed for more Popcuts music. The earlier you buy a song, the larger your cut of future sales.

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Music trade vet Gottehrer thinks for himself Labels are no longer king, he says. “The brand is the artist. As in the old days, you have to find a way to speak to the audience. With digital, there is the opportunity to identify what people want and give it to them, instead of the broad [...]

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A victory for the smalls against the bigs: Copyright holders must actually check to see their rights are violated before crying foul. This means that Corporations like Universal cannot blanket companies like uTube to pull down every time someone uses a clip of a Prince song. In a victory for small-time music copiers over the [...]

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The rising fees of webcasting, threaten to shut down Pandora. Call me crazy but I thought the point of making music was to have people hear it… It’s sad that the innovative companies are saddled with exorberant fees. Perhaps thats the point, to make them go out of business, though I doubt the Old Music [...]

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iTunes and Wallmart remain number 1 and 2. Amazon moves up to fourth as “online CD sales have seen less erosion than CD sales at brick-and-mortar stores”.  Interesting to note “Amazon’s CD buyers tend to be older, so they haven’t abandoned the CD format to the extent seen in the average music buyer.”

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