Via: paidContent Global recorded music sales shrank by 7.2 percent, from $18.3 billion to $17 billion, through 2009 – meaning the industry has scored fewer sales each year since 1999. Digital sales grew 9.2 percent and now make up over a quarter of all music income… But the extra $363 million brought in by digital [...]
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MUSIC SALES SHED $1 BILLION
May 14th, 2010 · No Comments
ROGER WATERS' STREET TEAM PAINTED OVER ELLIOTT SMITH MEMORIAL WALL
May 5th, 2010 · 1 Comment
Via: Prefix Mag To promote the tour, Waters’ street team (I guess promoters would be more accurate) have been painting an Eisenhower quote about peace all over walls in major metropolitan areas. But they chose the wrong wall in L.A. recently: They painted over the Elliott Smith memorial wall, a section of concrete that Smith’s [...]
TOP 25 NEW ARTISTS (WEEK ENDING: 5/2/2010)
May 5th, 2010 · 2 Comments
TOP 25 NEW ARTISTS (WEEK ENDING: 5/2/2010) 1 KASKADE DYNASTY 2 LA ROUX LA ROUX 3 CRYSTAL CASTLES CRYSTAL CASTLES (II) 4 ALPHA REV NEW MORNING 5 POSEHN*BRIAN FART & WIENER JOKES 6 MUMFORD & SONS SIGH NO MORE 7 SHARPE*EDWARD & THE MAGNETIC Z UP FROM BELOW 8 TYLER*JOHNATHAN & NORTHERN LIG PARDON ME [...]
DANGERBIRD SIGNS FITZ & THE TANTRUMS
April 27th, 2010 · No Comments
Via: L.A. Times Silver Lake’s Dangerbird Records continues to expand its portfolio beyond the local rock scene. After rising to national prominence on the strength of the Grammy-nominated success of the Silversun Pickups, the indie label has been steadily beefing up its roster. Monday, the imprint added our city’s chic, soul-drenched outfit Fitz & the [...]
SPOTIFY ADDS SOCIAL MEDIA FEATURES
April 27th, 2010 · No Comments
Via: paidContent Spotify spent most of its first year saying it would refrain from adding “social” features and concentrate on just serving music. But the ice in Stockholm has thawed lately and today the music service added just that, amongst its first significant product updates since launching in late 2008. —New profiles: Users can friend [...]
TOP 25 NEW ARTISTS: WEEK ENDING 04/11/2010
April 14th, 2010 · No Comments
TOP 25 NEW ARTISTS: WEEK ENDING 04/11/2010 1 VEIL OF MAYA ID 2 FLORENCE + THE MACHINE LUNGS 3 MUMFORD & SONS SIGH NO MORE 4 FLATFOOT 56 BLACK THORN 5 MURDER BY DEATH GOOD MORNING, MAGPIE 6 SEXTON*MARTIN SUGARCOATING 7 SHARPE*EDWARD & THE MAGNETIC Z UP FROM BELOW 8 TEMPER TRAP*THE CONDITIONS 9 LA [...]
MAJOR LABELS PONDER CHOPPING CD PRICES
April 8th, 2010 · No Comments
Via: All Things Digital Good chance that if you’re reading this story, you haven’t bought a CD in a long time. Would you think about it if CDs were cheaper? That’s what Universal Music Group is hoping. The world’s biggest music label is pushing a plan to sell all its CDs at a retail price [...]
THE IPAD MUSIC TEST DRIVE
April 8th, 2010 · No Comments
Via: Rollingstone The new Apple tablet is being billed as the ultimate portable entertainment device — a cross between a netbook PC and an iPhone — so how does it stack up as a music device? To find out, we took it for a quick spin. [Read More]
DIGITAL MUSIC SALES DROP
April 8th, 2010 · No Comments
Via: Billboard With the first quarter of 2010 now completed, the good news for the U.S. music industry is the slowing decline of album sales. And another observation is the emergence of the non-traditional sector as the largest U.S. retail channel, displacing the mass merchants. The bad news, however, is that for the first time [...]
TOP 25 NEW ARTISTS: WEEK ENDING 04/04/2010
April 7th, 2010 · No Comments
TOP 25 NEW ARTISTS: WEEK ENDING 04/04/2010 1 PAPER TONGUES PAPER TONGUES 2 FLATFOOT 56 BLACK THORN 3 SCHOOL GYRLS SCHOOL GYRLS 4 MUMFORD & SONS SIGH NO MORE 5 ENVY ON THE COAST LOWCOUNTRY 6 JEDI MIND TRICKS ARMY OF THE PHARAOHS: THE UNHO 7 TEMPER TRAP*THE CONDITIONS 8 LA ROUX LA ROUX 9 [...]
