Hypebot: Wire Producers' Project, Billboard for Sale?, Monetizing Mobile Content, Blogs = New Radio

Music industry news from Hypebot:

"Wire" Producers To Bring Record Industry To HBO. Who Should Play The Roles?

Live Nation And Ticketmaster Both Beat Analysts' Pre-Merger Expectations.

Are Billboard and The Hollywood Reporter for sale?

Ask indie musician and self-promotion queen Amanda Palmer a question.

Topspin's Ian Rogers share details of his experiences as a manager.

Traffic has jumped at Lala and iLike since the Google partnership.

MySpace Music may limit bandwidth and start charging.

As Spotify delays launch, MOG may have US all to itself.

Kyle Bylin on The Elsewhere Musician: Making Connections in a Fragmented World.

Monetizing Mobile Content: Hybrid Models.

Andrew McMillen: Why Music And Mp3 Blogs Are the New Radio To The Beggars Group.

Survey: Spotify Reduces Illegal Downloading.

Blink 182's Tom Delonge: "Put It Out There For Free"

Why MySpace And Wikipedia Pages Are More Important Than Ever.

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Hypebot: Abbey Road Live, The Orchard, MobBase, Topspin x Berklee, Foo Fighters' Web Concert, Indie Artist X

Music industry news from Hypebot:

Universal Music CEO Doug Morris to step aside.

IFPI: "Illegal File-sharing Reduces Legitimate Sales"
What do you think? Vote here.

EMI diversifies with Abbey Road Live concert recording outfit.

Shares of The Orchard double on stock buyout news.

Did Qtrax tell another lie? Search deal with Baidu may be less than claimed.

Falling traffic at MySpace could mean $100 million less in ad payments from Google. 

MobBase introduces d.i.y. music iPhone apps.  But with 100,000 apps will it get lost?

Lala & MySpace offer free tracks to promote new enhanced Google music search. And artists are finding ways to use Lala & MySpace to improve their results on the new search engine.

Topspin's Ian Rogers becomes an artist manager.

Kyle Bylin Essay - A Tale of Two Industries: What Do Books and Music Have In Common?

BlueBeat began selling Beatles downloads for $.25 claiming "psycho-analytics" it applied to the songs made the sales legal.  Days later EMI got a court injunction beating back the bizarre defense.

RealNetworks lays off 70 or 4% of their workforce.

Its real: New Weezer CD + An Official Snuggie Only $29.99!

Topspin and Berklee partner for online music marketing course.

Foo Fighters draw 440,000 to web only concert.

Our Indie Artist X Project Wrap Up

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Hypebot: Facebook vs Twitter, a2f2a, Live Nation Platform, OneBox, Topspin, Tweet For Tracks, Barbie Girl, BlueBeat

Music industry news from Hypebot:

Executive Shuffle: Cameo Carlson was named EVP Universal Motown Republic plus changes at Tunecore and EMI.

Facebook now accounts for 6% of all net traffic in the U.S. and Twitter's growth has slowed. Facebook is also in talks with MySpace to share content.

Billy Bragg's a2f2a Hopes To Close The Artist Fan Divide.

Live Nation opened up its web platform for more contributions from artists and fans.

Google's new OneBox enhanced music search was the big news of the week.  But is it really a game changer? Watch video interviews from the announcement and take it for a test drive yourself to find out.

Major Upgrades At Topspin?

Understanding Facebook Artist Pages vs. Profiles

Tweet For Tracks offers a free viral tool.

RealNetworks reports a small profit but Rhapsody subscriptions are down again.

"Barbie Girl": 12 Years Later The Subject Of A Lawsuit Becomes Mattel's Marketing Tool

BlueBeat is selling The Beatles, ACDC and more at 25 cents a track. Can it be legal?

Seth Godin: "Notice Me"

Video: iLike's Ali Partovi: MySpace and music's brought, a Metallica pinball game, an Alice In Chains Interactive iPhone App and an advance peak at Lala's new iPhone App

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Hypebot: Paul Wall's iPhone Video, Future of Music Summit, Twitter Advice, 7digital, Social Updates = Merchandise?

Music industry news from Hypebot:

Rapper Paul Wall filmed his new video entirely on an iPhone.

WMG pacts with Outrigger to monetize videos and named producer Rob Cavallo to the new post of Chief Creative Officer.

Mobile game Tap Tap Revenge adds 99 cent song bundles.

An important UK government body has recommended against the Live Nation Ticketmaster merger.  On Friday Wall Street reacted sending Ticketmaster's stock downward.

Nobody Cares About You Like You Care About You...So Raise Your Baton

Overheard @ The Future Of Music Summit: Part 1 and Part 2

PiracyPayback.org - The Cure For P2P Remorse.

Napster and Dell partner for a year of free music.

The Orchard has added physical distribution in Europe via Intergroove.

Dynamic priced download pioneer Amie Street raised another $3.9 million.

Interview: Mojo Nixon Sets His Music Free

Twitter Advice For Musicians In 140 Characters Or Less

7digital launches in U.S. with 77 cent downloads.

Is streaming music bad for the music industry?

Video interview with Radiohead manager Brian Message

10 hot trends in music games.

Are Social Updates A New Form of Merchandise?

we7 Beats Spotify As UK's Most Viewed Music Site

Midem adds a showcase for digital music startups.

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Hypebot: T-Pain Apps, Sellaband, FreeAllMusic.com, MySpace Music Australia, YouTube Indie Label

Music industry news from Hypebot:

After a long disagreement, Warner Music Group is back on YouTube.  And YouTube responds.

T-Pain sells 300,000 iPhone apps and starts a contest.

More staff cuts at Warner Music Group.

Sellaband shifts gears. Drops $50,000 minimum.

The Orchard pink slipped 20% of it's staff as CEO Greg Scholl exited. Company moral and its stock both took a dive.

Twitter tests a new feature: Are you on The List?

FreeAllMusic.com - A new ad supported music site get funding.

YouTube still dominates as online video viewing soars.

Kyle Bylin keynotes Next Big Nashville Oct 7-11.

Bruce Houghton: "MTV made me an offer that I could refuse."

The Piracy Debate: The UK Manager's Forum has backed flat fee unlimited downloads as their answer to ending piracy. Musician Billy Bragg says it's "a war that no one can win." Indie Music Dan Bull sung his response to the debate in an  Open Letter To Lily Allen. Meanwhile a top movie exec gave a lecture on "How To Be A Pirate".

Can classical music be cool again?

Metallica will offer single track downloads from years of live shows.

Spotify ads offline listening for premium users.

MySpace Music shares strong stats and opens in Australia.

Two YouTube musicians start an indie label for others driven by the video channel.

Bandzoogle hits a $1.5 million milestone.

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Hypebot: MySpace Twitter Sync, Rick Rubin & Russell Simmons Reminisce, Lefsetz Is Wrong

Music industry news from Hypebot:

Sony tries AmieStreet's variable pricing but adds major restrictions.

UK artist Lilly Allen speaks out on piracy, quits her campaign after facing nasty backlash,  and then shows up at a meeting of other artists called The Featured Artists Coalition and wins their support for a modified 3 strikes plan. VOTE: Do You Support Lilly Allen and FAC's Anti-P2P Plan?

Social Networking: 6 Ways To Make The Most Of Twitter's 140 Characters, MySpace beats Facebook with Twitter synch and Robo.to adds microvideos to social networking.

Video: Rick Rubin and Russell Simmons briefly reminisce.

Music Ringtones Continue Decline

WMG's Rhino Records lays off 30-40.

Kyle Bylin's The Digital Dilemma: Finding a Path to Salvation

The Music Industry Pays The Price Of Negativity - It's Time For A New Conversation.

Seth Godin: "Win the fight, lose the customer."

Who Says CD Sales Are Dead? Remastered Beatles Sell 2.25 Million In 2 Weeks.

Just 9% of users are willing to pay for Spotify Premium.

RIAA Chief says the Music industry has "5 Reasons for Optimism".

Guest essay: Lefsetz Is Wrong.

Study: Illegal downloaders also buy and stream music.

Lawsuit claims Guitar Center, NAMM fixed prices.

New Music Seminar comes to Chicago Oct. 6th

The Smashing Pumpkins will use the freemium model to release their new album.

New Music Tech: Mobile video so far: promise vs. progress, Genro.tv encourages fan created "official" videos with contests and community and the Georgia Tech Edison Fund invests in Band Metrics.

Midem adds a music tech showcase and 2 major keynotes.

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Hypebot: Game Sales Slide, Kurt Cobain Travesties, MySpace Decline, ReverbStore, Nimbit Facebook Store

Music industry news from Hypebot:

Game sales and the age of gamers both slide.

Music from the major labels still dominates YouTube.

Unlike the rest of the industry, eMusic is selling more albums than singles.

iTunes LP format appears destined for bigger screens.

How far is too far?  Kurt Cobain sings Bon Jovi in Guitar Hero. 

The steady decline of MySpace.

Singer Lily Allen complains about piracy and Muse's Matt Bellamy responds.

MySpace Music's homepage got a makeover.

Live Nation extends its discount promotion to the club level with a $50 pass.

Kyle Bylin essay: What Will It Take To Unite Artist, Industry & Fan?

Bruce Houghton essay: It was never just about the music?
Join the discussion.

Is music losing the Facebook fan race?

Dance music site Loudcrowd got $3 million in 2nd round financing, but will visitors follow?

ReverbNation partners with AudioLife to create an online music sales platform called ReverbStore.

Direct To Fan Sales: Offer, Focus & Acquisition.

Give Peace A Chance: Startups Vs. Rightsholders.

A video tour of the new Zune HD.

Video: Inside the Nimbit Facebook store.

Hypebot Revisted:
The Best Of Bylin's Essays.

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Hypebot: Chairman Snoop Dogg, Spotify Envy, Nimbit's MyStore Facebook, Johnny Cash vs Kurt Cobain

Music industry news from Hypebot:

Snoop Dogg is named chairman of EMI's Priority Records.

As Spotify releases iPhone and Android apps, Spotify envy grows. Here's a video to fuel the fire.

The lastest silly anti-piracy Hip Hop video: "Don't Copy That 2".

Apple made a number of major music announcements last week including a revamped iPod line, ringtones and an iTunes upgrade. Hypebot has video and a first look at the new iTunes LP format.

Three of the major label groups are resisting the unlimited download model.

A Forrester study offered a plan of staggered releases and fan engagement to save the music industry.

Heritage heavy metal band Dokken takes on a chicken for the new Norton Anti-Virus ad.

New study claims Facebook makes you smarter while Twitter dumbs you down.

Nimbit launches MyStore Facebook artist commerce platform.

Guitar Hero 5: Johnny Cash duets with Kurt Cobain

Free social networking dashboard: Tweetdeck adds MySpace and Facebook.

Artist online sales toolkit BandCamp adds new features.

Watunes wants to become the new MySpace.

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Hypebot: DJ AM Commercials, Digital Natives, Avoid the Twitter Time Suck, TuneCore on Amazon, 100 Promo Tips

Music industry news from Hypebot:

Despite DJ AM's death Activision will use his commercials to promote their DJ Hero game.

On a week when Wall Street appeared to lose confidence in the company, two senior executives exited Warner Music Group and the label group consolidated its Nashville operations.

Album sales fell another 18% last month.

Apple announces a September 9th "rock 'n roll" event.

Kyle Bylin's Cradle to Grave: The Untold Story of Digital Natives

UMG saw a slight revenue drop.

Retailer HMV bought a 50% stake in 7 Digital for $12.6 million.

Indie rights group Merlin named a new board of directors.

Highlights from the Bandwidth Conference.

5 ways your band can avoid the Twitter time suck.

Kurt Cobain returns from the dead for Guitar Hero.

Vote: Is Live Nation Lowering The Value Of Concerts?

Dear Britney, acting dumb isn't smart.

Rolling Stone Magazine finally discovers the web.

TuneCore adds a CD store on Amazon.

Hypebot Revisited:
100 Free & Affordable High & Low Tech Music Promotion Tips,

It's an online networking party! Introduce yourself to the Hypebot community.

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Hypebot: Dr. $hante, Echospin, Project Showtime, Terry McBride, Motel 6, Alice Cooper

Music industry news from Hypebot:

Sony Music's web efforts bear fruit as site traffic hits top 10.

Warner Music is forced to pay $217,000 for rapper Roxanne Shante's PHD.

Universal Music goes direct to fans with Echospin.

Exclusive Hypebot report:
Bruce Warila on The State Of Music Industry Investing

An unsuccessful plan by Ticketmaster, Irving Azoff and some of the countries biggest ticket scaplers dubbed Project Showtime is revealed.

Apple has approved the Spotify streaming music iPhone app at a crucial time for both companies.

Social networking only works when it's real; plus some Seth Godin wisdom.

Terry McBride: "A Profound Shift From Content Is King". Join the discussion.

OurStage and MTV launch an emerging artist program.

Music blog network MOG gets another $5 million in financing.

Industry vet Dick Wlngate joins Ted Cohen's TAG consulting team.

Motel 6 offers select touring bands free rooms.  Don't worry; another round is on the way.

Videos: Rhapsody's proposed iPhone App, Alice Cooper goes from throwing TV's out the window to selling them.

To celebrate it's 5th Anniversary, Hypebot is reposting some of it's top articles:
Where You Make Music Matters
The Best Of Bylin's Interviews
Infiltrating Columbia Records Site With An Anti-Label Ad
The Musical Middle Class

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Hypebot: iTunes, Mobile Music, Apple Surprise, Bandwidth Conference, Marketing vs Music

Music industry news from Hypebot:

iTunes dominates music sales with 69% of downloads and 25% of all formats.

8 out of 10 in the US don't listen to music on their cell phones.

How cell phone giant Nokia plans to remake the entire music industry.

MySpace bought iLike for just $20 million just as iLike opened a download store.  What does it all mean for artists and music marketers?

Amie Street adds Sony's RED catalog to its dynamically priced download store.

Is Apple planning a September music surprise?

Is live music feeling the economic pinch?

The Bandwidth Music Technology Conference is August 26-27 in San Francisco.

Mathew Ebel: Building His Career From The Basement Up

Facebook has added instant Twitter updates for artist pages.

In a cost (and ear) saving move MySpace Music disabled autoplay.

Moldover: When The Marketing Overshadows The Music

The Music Software Popularity Index

A new study proves the download's eco-advantage.

Vote for Hypebot's panel at SXSW: "Live Music & The Net - It's About More Than Just Ticketing".

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Hypebot: Dr. Dre, HP & Iovine Dreams, RIP! Remix Manifestor, Hip Hop Lyrics, Teens No Twitter, Nike x Athletes Turned Rappers

Music industry news from Hypebot:

Dr. Dre, Hewlett Packard & Jimmy Iovine want to change the entire digital music eco-system.

Watch the new movie RIP! A Remix Manifesto for free online.

10 Major Milestones In Modern Music Marketing.

Kanye West lives by "Two Words"...or is it four? A web site chronicles amusing Hip Hop lyrics.

CMX: Yet Another New Digital Album Format.

Despite all the hype most teens don't use Twitter.

A revamped EMI.com adds buy buttons from Amazon.  Why not iTunes?

Five people worth following on Twitter.

Microsoft's new Zune HD looks like a contender as it begins pre-sales.

Perez "Queen Of All Media" Hilton sponsors a concert tour.

A Scandinavian musician declares that he's "rather be raped by Pirate Bay" than played on Spotify and some Hypebot readers agree.

Kyle Bylin: Does Hollywood Share The Same Problems As The Record Industry?

Indie artist Imogenn Heap connects with her fans and they love her for it.

Video: Nike's tribute ad to athletes turned rappers.

A graphic look at the "Long Tail" of fans.

The Orchard targets China's 388 million mobile and net users with ZTEMT deal.

Universal has expanded is relationship with digital distributor INgrooves.

Warner Music Group and Cisco expand EOS web partnership.

UK Study: Teens Relationship With Music Shifting

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Hypebot: Poor Industry Earnings, New iPhone Apps, Big Champagne Revamps Charts, More Music Industry News

Music industry news from Hypebot:

The Band As A Billboard: The new Mariah Carey CD booklet will be covered with ads.

A new way of doing business?  Hip Hop label signed by the artist..not the other way around

It was a week of poor earnings reports and bad industry news:
Warner Music losses mounted, RealNetworks' Rhapsody lost 50K subscribers and 9% of staff got laid off, concert promoters Live Nation continued its' losing ways and its policy of discounting tickets. ArtistDirecteven went so far as to pull itself off the NASDAQ stock exchange.

Video of Stephen Colbert: "The Black Eyed Peas missed so many advertunities".

The Star6 iPhone App lets you chop a beat with the flick of a wrist.

iLike expands D.I.Y artist and concert iPhone apps.

Another great Kyle Bylin essay: Conditioned To Steal - Popular Music and Obsolescence in America

Music 2.0 in action: indie artist Amanda Palmer crowdsourced a new video in 20 minutes and Tweets fans for flash mob of extras.

An interview on the music industry with Techdirt's Mike Masnick.

Music distributor The Orchard opened its API to a group of select artist services firms.

Warner Music and 7 Digital cut a pan-European deal.

Big Champagne revamped it charts and added two free music industry news services.

Country star Taylor Swift jumped into gaming.

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Hypebot: Chris Brown, Digital Age Industry Mistakes, ArtistData Opens Platform, Dying Music Mags

Music industry news from Hypebot:

The Case Of Chris Brown: A wedding and 12 million YouTube plays.

Terra Firma investors approve $492 million more for EMI.

File-sharer Joel Tenenbaum looses his court battle with the RIAA and is fined $675,000.

Could an Apple "Cocktail" bring new life to the album and the music industry.

Interview: Greg Kot of Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music (Part 1 and Part 2).

The city where you make music does matter.

"The Biggest Industry Mistakes Of The Digital Age"

RealNetworks reports revenue and subscriber drop.

ArtistData opens platform to outside developers.

The 3 biggest reasons that music magazines are dying.

Study show the promise of ad supported music.

Guest post: Why the band as a startup model doesn't make sense.

MXP4: Engaging gimmick or pointless new format?

When The World Is Your Stage - Globalization opens new doors for niche artists.

Rockers Barcelona embraces pirated YouTube video and see sales soar.

The Orchard partners with Digonex for variable pricing.

Major label refugee Zaidi joins Limewire.

Video: A first look at the Spotify iPhone app.

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Hypebot: Spotify to U.S., Ian Rogers on Topspin, Artist = Startup, Label = Venture Fund, Pirates to Fans

Music industry news from Hypebot:

EMI reshuffles its digital executives.

Kazaa relaunches as "The Future Of Digital Music". It's not.

CEO promises a simplified MySpace, and growth may be slowing at the main site, but MySpace Music is going strong .

Popular EU music streaming service Spotify is planning a late summer U.S. launch.

Hypebot's exclusive interview with Amanda Palmer.

Ian Rogers answers Topspin's skeptics.

"The Artist As A Startup & Label As A Venture Fund" and A2IM President Rich Bengloff share the indlie label viewpoint.

Artist organization tool Bandize leaves beta with a bang.

Rock Band game opens platform to indie music. Watch a video intro.

Techdirt experiments with a formula to save the music industry.

Survey shows that pirates can become paying fans.

The Orchard partners with Michael Caplan's One Haven.

INgrooves and Topspin partner for direct to fan marketing.

Vote: What do you think of Perez Hilton's first signing?

Music Widgets Come Of Age: Tunecore and theBizmo.

Report from last week's New Music Seminar: "There are no more excuses."

Unlimited download site Zookz goes down.

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