All Entries Tagged With: "Billboard"
Mobile Medicine
Wayne Rosso drills down on mobile revenues and the potential for increasing sales volumes of digital music generally.
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 [...]
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 [...]
Lyor Cohen talks on 360 Deals, iTunes pricing and why YouTube deals do not pay
After being brought in to make the Warner Music Groups roster of labels more efficient in 2004, Lyor Cohen (now Chairman & CEO of Recorded Music at WMG) has certainly delivered with the company gaining a 2.2% increase in market share in 2008. What’s more, Atlantic Records became the No 1 label in the United [...]
Update: Apple Dodges US Royalty Bullet
[Ed: This is a follow-up to yesterday's post on the Apple iTunes US royalty issue. Read that post here] That Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) has ruled to retain the current royalty payment regime for iTunes in the US, keeping the current payment of 9.1 cents per track for the next 5 years. Apple had earlier [...]
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Billboard.biz- Google Rolls Location-Based Mobile Display Ads July 29, 2010
- Business Matters: Rolling Stones, Ustream, DMX and more July 29, 2010
- Dimensional Completes Acquisition of The Orchard July 29, 2010
- Sources: Spotify Reboots U.S. Label Negotiations July 29, 2010
- Business Matters: Lucian Grainge, Live Nation, Les Savy Fav and more July 28, 2010
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- Nuance Unveils Dragon NaturallySpeaking Version 11, Simply Smarter Speech Recognition July 29, 2010
- Business Owners Need Understanding of Internet Marketing to Engage With Customers July 29, 2010
- Brits trust the web more than their friends July 29, 2010
- Google Crowned "King of Malware" – Has Two Times More Malware than Bing, Yahoo! and Twitter Combined July 28, 2010
- StrongMail Acquires Marketing Services Firms and Creates Email and Social CRM Agency Powerhouse "ThreadMarketing" July 28, 2010
Apple’s iTunes Store gave labels much-needed succour after its launch in 2003, slowing down big losses by replicating physical’s per-track purchase paradigm in digital. But now, even after many such services have abandoned copy locks, growth in downloads has largely flatlined, or even worse. The new promised land lays in...
