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The Truth About Megaupload & The Record Industry »

No conspiracy between the US and Record Labels…

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Companies Opposed To SOPA Are Acting Like Spoilt Children »

TMV are utterly disgusted with the antics of the anti SOPA camp. What is so wrong with legislation that’s core aim is to eradicate piracy and in effect protect producers…

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Live Music LifecyclesDave Fortune is a 27 year vet of the concert and music industry. Dave headed up production and operations for Live Nation in Canada.
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TMV Predictions For 2012 »

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Well 2012 is hurtling past and we are already into our 10th day of the new year! TMV’s UK staff writer Laura G Thorne and Jakomi Mathews teamed up to come up with our predictions for 2012 – we hope you enjoy them! Social Marketing…

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The job market ain’t so great these days, as everyone knows, but high-priced top notch talent is always in demand. Just look at Sony Music and you sure do see the high-priced part of the equation. However a chief executive who is a consummate deal-maker,…

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Charts: What’s Happening To UK Music Sales »

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2011 UK music sales volume figures are in, showing a continuation of the same patterns, according to Official Charts Company data (via BPI). Digital singles continue to boom, more than making up for lost physical sales. They are now 99.3 percent of all single sales.…

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TMV’s London correspondent Laura G Thorne attended last week’s Live Music Landscape conference and reports back on the industry’s recent hills and valleys. 2Pears (facilitators…

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Shazam Is Buying Back Its Own Core Patents To Go Multi-Media

In a move illustrating the growing role of technology patents, mobile music service Shazam is buying back some of its intellectual property – six years after it sold it to finance the company. Back in 2005,…

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A digital revolution of the musical kind, a short study of the CD

Now that the Digital Media revolution has well and truly engulfed most people’s daily lives, what happens to all the old technology that has become outdated? Is everyone going to be stuck with crumbling boxes of…

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TMV Predictions For 2012

Well 2012 is hurtling past and we are already into our 10th day of the new year! TMV’s UK staff writer Laura G Thorne and Jakomi Mathews teamed up to come up with our predictions for…

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Bits and Bytes and Everything Nice – Internet Week Europe

TMV’s Laura G Thorne was in London taking the collective temperature at Internet Week Europe. Here’s the upshot: The streets were alive in London as the pied pipers of tech arrived on November 7th for Internet…

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Live Music Landscape

TMV’s London correspondent Laura G Thorne attended last week’s Live Music Landscape conference and reports back on the industry’s recent hills and valleys. 2Pears (facilitators of peer2peer networking and collaboration specialising in creative and startup companies)…

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Games Take Largest Share Of Android’s First 10 Billion Downloads

Android games have notched up more than 2.5 billion downloads since the launch of Google’s Android Market store, taking a 25.6 percent share of the store’s…

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Are Music Tech Companies A Better Investment Than Traditional Music Businesses?

Just glancing upon the Nasdaq share prices yesterday it seems very apparent that investor confidence in the traditional music business is very low. Live Nation (NASDAQ: LYV) is not profitable and its shares have hovered around…

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VP Sales – Universal Music Group Distribution, CA

Job Summary: VP, Sales will lead, develop, and manage overall sales initiatives for UMD to achieve sales and marketing goals across all label groups (owned and…

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