Grammy Winners & Losers, 2013 Edition

Grammy’s real winners & losers

ShareTweet Former Sony Music Entertainment chairman Tommy Mottola released his memoir last week, ”Hitmaker: The Man and His Music”, and has been making the media rounds. The once T.D. Valentine turned Tommy Mottola turned Thomas D. Mottola is now back to the good old Tommy. In these interviews, Tommy appears as an older, wiser, mellow, [...]

ShareTweet Well once again it is that time of year – the beginning of a new year. As with other publications we provide our opinions on the key areas we believe warrant closer attention over the coming year. 2012 has seen increased investment in digital music start-ups as compared to 2011. Numerous new services have [...]

ShareTweet Music and politics are two things that are known to evoke some pretty passionate emotional responses. It makes sense, then, that music would be used as a catalyst for political fervour, and that some of the most memorable political movements have certain songs or pieces of music inextricably associated with them. Here are four [...]

ShareTweet Earlier today Pandora announced their move into the Australian music market and TMV understands Deezer is not far behind. In this market alone that would mean Rdio, MOG, Spotify, Pandora, Deezer, five global music streaming services as well as a further two local services for a market with a total population of 22 million. [...]
ShareTweet The music industry is battling to stop piracy through Russia’s largest social network so that it can turn the country from a digital backwater in to a top music market. vKontakte, which is often called a Facebook copycat for its similar features and design, includes built-in file sharing. In a case brought by one [...]

ShareTweet Howdy folks a great infographic on a day in the internet. If you scroll down some interesting facts about Pandora and if it were streaming from 2000 years ago…happy viewing. TMV would like to thank www.mbaonline.com for sharing this infographic with TMV. Created by: MBAOnline.com

Chris Barton of the New Zealand Herald analyzes the battle between corporate interests and the internet

ShareTweet 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 the $7 mark for a few years. I’ve been told when it does pay a dividend it has [...]

ShareTweet Firstly, TMV and myself would like to apologize for having no choice but to publish this post. This decision was not made lightly. Basically, a company has made numerous and baseless defamatory accusations against both TMV and myself. This particular company (X | Media | Lab (XML) is a Singapore-based company whose founders are [...]
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