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Digital music revenue share by platform
The French band ‘uniform motion’ may not yet be on your playlist, but they are well worth listening to. And not just the music, for they have a thing or two to say about the economics of the record industry without a record label. In short, it’s not an easy place to make money to … Continue reading
Rebecca Black Friday meme breaks records
Rebecca Black’s infamously bad ‘Friday’ song and accompanying video is surely the highest traffic meme on YouTube. Take a look at the stats at the time at writing: 128 million, yes million, views 351k likes, but a whopping 2.5 million dislikes, the most dislikes of any YouTube video (beating Justin Bieber’s ‘Baby’) 2.81 million comments. … Continue reading
Google puts the Lady back in Gaga
Watching Lady Gaga blanking Jonathan Ross on his chat show was one of the most toe-curling pieces of TV on record, as she played the moody teenager dismissing his attempts at repartie. She was, however, in more respectful mood when visiting that other internet giant, Google, as part of their Musicians@Google series. Of course having … Continue reading
Floyd Pink
Pink Floyd are fighting back in the transformation in the music industry from album to single after winning a court battle to prevent unbundled downloads of their album tracks. They have a similar contract in place for physical albums and the court confirmed that this should be extended to online downloads. So, as a result … Continue reading
Spotify the Nokia
Spotify’s premium music service, which includes its offline playlists, is coming to the Symbian operating system (owned by Nokia). The new version mainly supports Nokia phones, including popular models like the 5800 XpressMusic and E72, but also supports Samsung’s Omnia HD and Sony Ericsson’s new Satio. The premium service, £9.99 a month, is already available … Continue reading
U2 Tube
YouTube’s latest experiment at live broadcasting, the decidedly A-list U2 concert from the Rose Bowl attracted a broadcast size audience of 10m. Given its premium content, it’s too early to say whether this is a tipping point for internet video or indeed YouTube’s live broadcasting ambitions, but nonetheless it’s an impressive figure. The concert was … Continue reading
OneBox to rule them all
Google has entered the online music market with a new service for finding and buying music online, OneBox, through a partnership with music sites Lala and MySpace-owned iLike. The US-only service allows people to search using song titles, artists or snippets of lyrics. The songs are then available as ad-supported streams and paid downloads. As … Continue reading
Comes with Spotify
Another week, another Spotify business model, this time a bundled subscription to Spotify’s premium service on HTC’s Hero Android Smartphone which is available on the UK’s 3 network. For a £35 a month tariff, plus a £99 fee (similar to iPhone pricing), users get two years of Spotify’s premium service included in the deal. They … Continue reading
Spotify iPhone app’s mixed reviews
The Spotify iPhone app has finally been approved by Apple, providing streaming, and more limited offline, access to Spotify’s music catalogue for premium users of the service (£9.99). It’s been interesting to see the mixed reviews to what is an impressive service, if you’re willing to accept the price that is. Despite making it clear … Continue reading
Spotify iPhone app days away
The long awaited Spotify iPhone application has been submitted to Apple for approval and already several details have emerged: – Ability to take your playlists with you – Download songs or playlists to listen offline – Search for new tracks – Of course being an iPhone app, you can’t run it in the background while … Continue reading
