All Entries Tagged With: "Billboard"

Will A Revamped Attitude Make Users Reconsider MySpace?

First reported by TechCrunch and later confirmed by Billboard, MySpace’s new slogan is “Discover and be Discovered”. The strategy was reportedly revealed to employees during a meeting last week at the Los Angeles HQ. The meeting, attended by some 600 employees as well as being broadcast to other offices, was most likely a move to [...]

Mar, 02 2010 0 Comments Full Story

Apple Moves Toward Music As Service

For nearly four years, I’ve been evangelizing the transition of the music industry from a product-based business to a service-based economy. I’ve never viewed this as a possible scenario but as the only eventuality. It’s going to happen, it’s got to happen, now maybe sooner than later. With Apple’s acquisition this week of LaLa, the [...]

Dec, 14 2009 12 Comments Full Story

Digging Into The Reserves: Worth Losing The Best Ones First?

Sony has had much reason to celebrate this weekend as Michael Jackson’s rehearsal documentary “This Is It” pulled in $101 million worldwide in its first five days. “This Is It” certainly has a shot to break the record of most successful concert film in the US, currently held by Miley Cyrus’s “The Best of Both [...]

Nov, 03 2009 3 Comments Full Story

Lala: From the Bottom of the Barrel to the Crest of the Wave

The only news of Lala in the past year was WMG’s writing down half of its $20 million investment in the site, grimly citing “lower expectations of digital music sales”. But this week introduced three new prospective projects for the streaming site; an iPhone app and deals with Facebook and Google. Lala could soon be [...]

Oct, 27 2009 3 Comments Full Story

Spotify: Labels Win, Artists Lose?

Spotify only turned a year old this month and yet they have constantly been mentioned in the press for their plans of expansion, from the 3UK/HTC phone to tie-ins with Swedish telco Telia for a possible TV service. Before we get caught up in the fairy tale story though one must ask, for a start-up [...]

Oct, 20 2009 2 Comments Full Story

TMV Video Interview – Robb McDaniels, CEO and Founder – INgrooves

With Robb McDaniels recent Op-Ed in Billboard earlier this week TMV thought it apt to post the video interview we undertook with him a couple of months back. Rob touches on the streaming business models and some of the issues for content owners and distributors to consider. We also get Robb to comment on the [...]

Oct, 14 2009 0 Comments Full Story

Does Streaming Cannibalise A-La-Carte Sales?

In Europe, particularly the UK, uptake of music streaming services has been explosive. The two services driving this explosion are we7.com and Spotify. Almost each week you hear media reports of one being larger than the other in terms of the number of consumers using their “free” ad-funded services. Yet if the service is free [...]

Oct, 12 2009 2 Comments Full Story

Mobile Medicine

Wayne Rosso drills down on mobile revenues and the potential for increasing sales volumes of digital music generally.

Sep, 28 2009 4 Comments Full Story

Avant-Garde Gone Revolutionary

Experimental band The Flaming Lips will release a double-album next month called Embryonic, their 12th release. Last week they marked their “rebirth” after a 3-year absence at New York’s All Tomorrow’s Parties festival by entering onstage through “psychedelically undulating vaginal Lips”, a common ‘theme’ for their new album (any Portland readers who have nothing to [...]

Sep, 22 2009 0 Comments Full Story

Event Report – Billboard Music & Money Symposium (NYC)

Last week’s Billboard Music and Money Symposium, held under the backdrop of the global market downturn, was a day devoted to the continued pursuit of an answer to the question that has bedeviled both music and finance people for the better part of a decade: How do we make money with music in a fragmented [...]

Mar, 09 2009 0 Comments Full Story