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WALL STREET SLAPS DOWN JUNIOR

WALL STREET SLAPS DOWN JUNIOR

Wayne Rosso takes a look at Standard and Poor’s recent downgrading of WMG stock, at the same time as pondering music labels’ rather checkered record in supporting new innovative business models such as Spotify

Winning the Gene Pool Lottery

Winning the Gene Pool Lottery

Last weekend, the Sunday Times of London published the 2010 British Music Millionaires chart. Topping the list is our favorite fortunate son, Edgar Bronfman, Jr. ‘Junior’ qualifies for the list after moving from New York to London last year. The Times’ calculation of his fortune is partly based on his family’s past ownership of the [...]

imeem executives walk away with golden handshakes whilst leaving artists high and dry

imeem executives walk away with golden handshakes whilst leaving artists high and dry

Jakomi Mathews does some digging and finds out that seinor Imeem executives walked away with between $7 – $9 million in earnouts, despite leaving artists high and dry…

Through The Storm of Streaming Services, Spotify Remains Buoyant

Through The Storm of Streaming Services, Spotify Remains Buoyant

This has been quite a week for music streaming sites and services. Amidst all of the shrewd verdicts of the Lala and imeem deals there is a silver lining from Rajar’s Midas report released on Thursday. The report revealed that this year music streaming services like Spotify and Last.fm were “the fastest-growing internet-delivered audio services” [...]

TMV Looks back On Our Predictions to See Where We Were Right and Where We Got It Wrong

TMV Looks back On Our Predictions to See Where We Were Right and Where We Got It Wrong

Last year saw The Music Void make its first foray into future gazing with our bold (and not so bold) predictions for the music industry in 2009.  With no pedigree of clairvoyance to fall back upon, we probably erred on the side of caution at times, but all things considered we acquitted ourselves reasonably well [...]

Lala Land: How Apple’s Deal Gives It A Leg-Up To The Cloud

Lala Land: How Apple’s Deal Gives It A Leg-Up To The Cloud

Robert Andrews editor at our content partner, paidContentUK examines the recent acquisition of Lala by Apple. iTunes Store remains the market-leading music retailer, and iTunes the popular app, but competitors are gathering. As more of our lives are stored online, so more music is streaming from the cloud. In on-demand, Spotify is hoping to launch [...]

 MySpace Music Is No Spotify Challenger

MySpace Music Is No Spotify Challenger

Mark Mulligan courtesy of paidContentUK examines the difference between the two propositions and there limits… MySpace today launched its UK music offering, over a year after its US launch. However tempting it is to position this as a Spotify challenger (and the BBC and many others do) it simply isn’t. It isn’t – both out [...]

SPOTIFY AND THE USA. WHY NOT?

SPOTIFY AND THE USA. WHY NOT?

There’s been a lot of buzz lately about Spotify and the resistance that they’re reportedly getting from major labels about launching in the US. From what I gather, the labels seem to be concerned about cannibalizing their biggest market with a free streaming service. There also seems to be a lot of chatter about whether [...]

Free Isn’t Working, What’s Next?

Free Isn’t Working, What’s Next?

In April of 2006, I spoke in Hong Kong at the Nokia N Series launch. The focus of my talk, that music as a product was dead; the future of music was service-based. At the time, senior executives at EMI were outraged by my perspective. I still believe it’s the future, we have to embrace [...]

Lily Allen Steps Up

Lily Allen Steps Up

Hooray for Lily Allen, she had the guts to stand up and say enough is enough, “File-sharing’s not OK for British music. I want to get people working together to use new digital opportunities to encourage new artists.” Not since Metallica’s stance against Napster ten years ago has an artist so boldly stood up to [...]