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Warner Music Decide Their Future In Free Streaming Services
With Warner Music Group’s CEO Edgar Bronfman’s comments this week about how free streaming music services are “clearly not positive for the industry”, and his stating that in the future Warner will not be embracing such deals, how does this affect WMG’s place in the future music market?
Traditional vs. Digital: Artist Management in 2010
As an observer, something like the yearly MIDEM conference in Cannes is a great way to catch an insight into the current views of those inside the music industry about what is happening right now, and how they see things changing in the future. It is often supported by fantastic panels with often conflicting views. [...]
Simplicity As A Point Of Reference
So this post has come about as more of a spur-of-the-moment thought than a carefully constructed piece, but one which was based around a single notion; as life becomes faster and our possibilities in everyday life become more and more limitless, there is an increasing distance from the concept of simplicity, and within there is beauty.
Meet the Industry twins: 'Record' & 'Music'
Okay, so you can’t turn anywhere online at the moment when looking at the music industry without tripping over coverage and opinion on yesterday’s IFPI Digital Music Report 2010 (I notice the irony in mentioning this as I introduce you to an article of me giving coverage and opinion to the very same topic). While [...]
New Venture
In the true way that music is always evolving and moving forward so should we. I’m in the process of working through plans for a new music venture and would be very keen to hear from you if you are a songwriter.
The style of music does not matter, I’m open to hear from writers from [...]
Indaba Prepare For Release Of New Browser Console
Online music collaboration site Indaba Music are counting down the days until their browser-based session console is upgraded to the new version, produced alongside Sun Microsystems.
The system has a large number of updates and improvements, including for the first time allowing users to record high-quality, uncompressed audio directly into their session, as opposed to uploading [...]
Streamed Tracks Considered For Chart Inclusion
As the BBC reports that The Official UK Charts Company is looking to the future of it’s charts by considering implementing ways of including the number of streams of tracks from services such as Spotify, Last.fm and We7, it poses a number of problems that must be addressed before the idea can be fully integrated.
Churchill's Round Up – 21.06.09
In the first of a weekly new series, social media expert Matt Churchill, author of the highly-regarded Seldom Seen Kid blog, will be picking three of his favourite music news stories of the last week to comment on, and likewise, I will be doing the same for his site on items I’ve found regarding the [...]
Spotify Give Glimpse Of Mobile Service
Today Spotify released a short video demonstrating an albeit early version of their mobile app for the Google Android platform.
While still in development, the demonstration gives those of us curious about how the app will look and perform an insight on what to expect.
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While they are still refusing to give release dates for apps on [...]
Spotify & 7Digital Announce Download Deal
It seems that someone has been reading my recent posts, as today Spotify have announced a deal with 7Digital to include buy links for users to purchase and download tracks they have heard through the service.
