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1. Digital Music Growth Levels Off, by Gavin O'Malley, Media Post, 12-17-2009 Digital music revenue has not yet made up for the decline in CD sales, O'Malley reports. He describes music initiatives by Apple and Google.
2. Would Anyone Pay for MySpace Music?, by Paul Bonanos, Business Week, 11-15-2009 News Corp. is said to be mulling a paid model for MySpace; Bonanos says it's tough to see what the site could offer to make users want to pay, given that MySpace is so far behind in terms of user interface and experience.
3. Why Vevo Will Fail, by Janko Roettgers, Business Week, 12-10-2009 The music video site Vevo is modeled on Hulu, but downloading music videos is quite different from downloading TV programs, Roettgers explains.
4. EU Online Music Pact May Be Model For U.S., by W. David Gardner, Information Week, 10-22-2009 The delivery of online music in the European Union is slated to get easier after the EU's antitrust agency reached an agreement with a group of firms supplying online music to consumers, writes Gardner.
5. Napster Goes Mobile, by Marin Perez, Information Week, 9-1-2009 The mobile version will enable Web-capable phones to view album art, preview songs, and download tracks over the air, Perez reports.
6. 10 Weird Ways to Distribute Music, by Eliot Van Buskirk, Wired, 7-13-2009 Van Bushkirk provides screen shots and reviews music sold through soup cans, tee shirts and assorted other means.
7. Artists Find Backers as Labels Wane, by Brad Stone, New York Times, 7-21-2009 Stone discusses ventures that invest a few hundred thousand dollars in new and rising artists who are not signed to record deals and then help them create their own direct links to audiences over the Internet.
8. New Pricing Plan Soon To Be At Play For Online Music, by Laura Sydell, NPR, 7-27-2009 Sydell describes a pricing service that uses an algorithm called "dynamic pricing" that factors in how many songs are being sold and how often they sell to calculate how much to charge.
9. Apple Makes Nice with Music Labels, by Arik Hesseldahl, Business Week, 7-27-2009 The four largest record companies, EMI, Sony (SNE), Warner Music (WMG), and Universal Music Group, are in talks with Apple about including more content with digital music sold at the iTunes store, Hesseldahl reports.
10. The World's Greatest Music Service, by Farhad Manjoo, Slate, 7-16-2009 Manjoo reports that a new music-streaming service, Spotify, streams every song you'd ever want to hear for free, tells why it's not provided to Americans.
11. Webcasters and Music Industry End Fight for Royalties, by Gabriel Madway and Richard Chang, ECN Magazine, 7-9-2009 Large webcasters agree to pay artists and copyright owners a percentage of all U.S. revenue up to 25% or on a per-song basis, which ever is greater. Smaller webcasters will pay a smaller percentage under a different formula.
12. Music Labels Cut Friendlier Deals With Start-Ups, by Brad Stone, New York Times, 5-27-2009 The recording industry is considering an all-digital future in which it needs popular Web services like Imeem, both as sources of revenue and as supplements to older channels of promotion like radio and MTV.
13. Music Downloads Drive Brand Promotions, by Chantal Todé, DM News, 5-14-2009 Using marketing campaigns with a music tie-in that include free, downloadable music track offers to target a younger demographic are gaining popularity for brands as diverse as Zippo lighters and Vitaminwater, Todé reports.
14. The High Cost of Selling Cheap Music Services, by Saul Hansell, New York Times, 5-20-2009 Even a great value doesn’t mean the service will sell itself, Hansell writes. Like any business that sells subscriptions, Rhapsody needs to advertise to attract new customers.
15. How to Draw 22 Million Visitors to Your Website, by , Inc. Magazine, 4-15-2009 Describes growth of Pandora, a pioneering Internet radio company that now has 22 million intensely loyal users. The site recommends songs to people based on their favorite artists, tracks, and albums. Offers 4 tips.
16. YouTube Orchestra Melds Music Live and Online, by Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, 4-16-2009 Tommasini reviews the 3-hour concert the 96-player YouTube Symphony Orchestra presented at Carnegie Hall. The players were selected from among the more than 3,000 musicians, representing 30 countries, who submitted audition videos.
17. The Music Industry's New Internet Problem, by Douglas MacMillan, Business Week, Streaming music sites with freely accessible content are being used by a growing number of listeners as a substitute for buying music, MacMillan writes.
18. Making History One Webcast at a Time, by Nico McLane, Streaming Media, 2-12-2009 McLane describes how a first-ever live video stream of The New York Philharmonic’s historic concert in North Korea’s capital city of Pyongyang was accomplished.
19. AT&T Unlocks Exclusive Content for MTV Music Users, by Andrew Hampp, Advertising Age, 3-5-2009 Hampp reports on MTV Music site's first major integrated sponsor, AT&T, which will help users "unlock" 15 pieces of content a day from the MTV Vault, which comprises tens of thousands of music videos and other exclusive footage.
20. Social Music: 5 Ways to Find Concerts Near You, by Jennifer Van Grove, Mashable, 2-12-2009 Van Grove describes sites to help you find the artists you love in your hometown. Screenshots and links.
21. The Year in Online Music, by Chris Crum, WebProNews, 12-15-2008 Crum provides a month-by-month look at 2008's happenings in online music, including digital rights management, acquisitions and new bands.
22. CBS Relaunching TV.com; Hoping Finally To Become A Video Player; Aiming Beyond Hulu, Not At It, by Staci D. Kramer, paidContent.org, 12-14-2008 CBS Interactive is relaunching TV.com, hoping to transform the well-named site known for its TV-related community and user-generated content into a serious video destination, Kramer reports.
23. YouTube Refocuses on Premium, and Misses the Point, by Liz Gannes, Business Week, 12-5-2008 If Google's online video destination wants to make money, it needs to better understand the strengths of its product, Gannes suggests.
24. Online Radio Advertising Network Shows Promise, by Deborah Yao, CRM Daily, 12-12-2008 Describes audio ads for online radio stations, with companion visual ads, that can be targeted to people in specific geographic areas, based on the Internet address of a listener's computer, among other factors.
25. Babelgum Launches Online Music Video Award, by Colleen Barry, CRM Daily, 10-24-2008 Babelgum is continuing its mission to provide a platform for new talent, and attract viewers to its ad-supported Web site that streams videos online for free, with the launch of a music video competition with the online music community.
26. The Future of Internet Radio, by Elizabeth Welsh, Streaming Media, 10-15-2008 Webcasters anxiously await Congress’ ruling on the royalty decision, arguably the most significant issue pertaining to internet radio’s future, Welsh reports. Presents thoughts on what the future holds for internet radio.
27. Music Downloads: Is the Price Right?, by Olga Kharif, Business Week, 10-2-2008 A federal panel will decide if Apple, Amazon and the like should pay higher royalties to music publishers. But 99¢ songs likely aren't going to disappear, Kharif predicts.
28. Digital Content Wherever You Want It, by Cliff Edwards, Business Week, 9-15-2008 A digital entertainment consortium called the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE) plans to develop a new standard so consumers can play purchased content on any type of device and stream it freely, Edwards reports.
29. Facing the music, by Katie Deatsch, Internet Retailer, 10-1-2008 Discusses online music sales business approaches. Apple iTunes store is booming. Competitors are an Amazon MP3 store with DRM-free tracks, Napster and RealNetworks with a subscription model. Artists, especially small or new bands, are giving their music away as marketing tools.
30. Interactive Music Format Pregnant With Possibility, by Eliot Van Buskirk, Wired, 9-9-2008 Describes Musinaut's new MXP4 format. Users, rather than listening to a track exactly as it was laid down, can choose between various versions in a software player or online widget.
31. Learn To Play Guitar Online, by Ivan Schneider, Information Week, 5-10-2008 Reports that guitar sites are booming, partly because of the more than $1 billion in annual guitar sales to aging rock fans who couldn't afford expensive guitars before. Looks at a wide range of pay sites, distance learning programs, free resources.
32. The Record Labels' Digital Future, by Catherine Holahan, Business Week, 4-4-2008 Even as they cut a deal with MySpace for online music, the record labels are looking at other ways to make money online, Holahan reports, including advertising, promotions, and the sales of items such as concert tickets and T-shirts.
33. Trying to Catch Up, Amazon Shifts Focus to Digital World, by Brad Stone, CIO Today, 4-10-2008 Amazon has reached, in a sense, the end of Phase One of its digital media rollout, says Stone. Reports that the company's MP3 store has quickly become one of the top sellers of digital music.
34. Dear Hollywood Studios: Let My Video Go, by Frank Rose, Wired, 2-25-2008 To succeed in the digital realm, Rose says Hollywood needs to offer total convenience, almost infinite choice, and the freedom to watch any way we want. The way to stop piracy is to make everything available — easily, legally, and at a fair price.
35. Slouching Toward Digital, by Tom Lowry and Peter Burrows, Business Week, 1-7-2008 Amazon.com's (AMZN) new music download service amounts to a grand experiment for record labels, many of which have agreed to sell their tunes for the first time without restrictions against copying and other digital rights management (DRM) protections.
36. Free Music Now! Lala.com's Plan to Give Songs Away Could Upend the Industry, by , Wired Magazine, 10-23-2007 Lala will begin streaming any track or album the user selects, for free, betting that the chance to explore the sonic landscape will get listeners excited and wanting to own the songs.
37. Baby boomers have pent-up demand for digital music, by , Internet Retailer, 9-27-2007 NPD Group. The report says that more than 70% of the 76 million baby boomers in the U.S. report buying music in the past year. 68% of boomers purchase only CDs, but 26% purchase both digital music and CDs.
38. Lessons From Blockbuster: Money For Nothin', and the Survey's For Free, by Stoney deGeyter, Internet Search Engine Database, 9-5-2007 deGuyter reports on a Blockbuster survey request, the survey itself and explains what was wrong with both the request and the survey and how they both could have been improved significantly.
39. Universal Music Reconsidering iTunes Deal, by Catherine Holahan, Business Week, 7-3-2007 The future of digital music may be at stake, warns Holahan. What will Universal Music's next move mean for Apple and for ad-supported online music? Reports that the music label may not renew its agreement with Apple.
40. Lala.com's Make-or-Break Move, by Peter Burrows, Business Week, 6-6-2007 The startup has a lot on the line with its plan to sell music for the iPod circumventing Apple's vaunted iTunes, Burrows reports. It lets people with an Internet connection listen to all the music on its Web site and pay only if they want to download.
41. Who Gets Stung by Net Radio Royalties, by Laurie Joulie, Business Week, 5-15-2007 When the higher rates for Internet radio royalty fees go into effect, the real losers will be independent artists, small stations, and music lovers, says Joulie.
42. Amazon goes for easy-to-use as its differentiator in music downloads, by , Internet Retailer, 5-17-2007 Amazon, a latecomer to sales of downloadable music, will sell music without copyright protection that annoys consumers. This allows consumers to play their music on any device they choose.
43. The Music Industry Wants to Kill LimeWire, by David Kushner, IEEE Spectrum, 5-1-2007 The founder of peer-to-peer network hopes to negotiate a settlement with music labels that will lead to building in a payment mechanism for consumers who wish to purchase music and feeds sales leads from consumer queries to interested parties.
44. Close Harmony: Bands and Web 2.0, by Catherine Holahan, Business Week, 3-26-2007 Thanks to their ability to help young musicians win fans and launch careers, Holahan describes how music sites are attracting indie artists and record labels.
45. Blockbuster Gaining Ground In Online Rentals, by Matthew Kirdahy, Forbes.com, 1-3-2007 Blockbuster's online presence is growing with 2.2 million online rental subscribers compared to Netflix with 5.7 million subscribers. However, Blockbuster's new Total Access Program takes advantage of its network of stores.
46. Tempo of digital music sales getting faster, by , Internet Retailer, 1-8-2007 Digital sales of individual songs jumped 65% last year to $582 million according to Nielsen SoundScan. Brief article includes highlights of sales figures.
47. Event and movie ticket sales steadily moving online, by , Internet Retailer, 12-29-2006 Describes both the primary and secondary ticket market, the latter selling what is left of blocks of unneeded tickets. The Internet has brought about a marked decentralization of the tickets industry in the last 3 years.
48. MySpace gets into the online music sales business, by , Internet Retailer, 9-5-2006 Under a new arrangement with SNOCAP, a digital music services provider and licensing company, MySpace will offer independent musicians the chance to build online storefronts and sell their music to other community members on MySpace.com.
49. Music Reborn, by , Wired, 9-1-2006 Introduction to 12-part story of the renewed file-sharing and other technologies that are good for both fans and bands.
50. Move Over, MTV, by Catherine Holahan, Business Week, 8-22-2006 Holahan discusses the growing number of Web sites using music videos to lure young people and steal some of MTV's market share, including Yahoo, MySpace and YouTube.