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Sony's PlayStation Network is still down, and that is continuing to disrupt launch efforts for Music Unlimited powered by Qriocity.  The outage is now stretching into a full week.   Beggars Group has recently opened an office in Los Angeles, specifically in Silverlake.  Netflix has now amassed 23.6 million subscribers, enough to trump both Comcast [...]

Sony's PlayStation Network is still down, and that is continuing to disrupt launch efforts for Music Unlimited powered by Qriocity.  The outage is now stretching into a full week.   Beggars Group has recently opened an office in Los Angeles, specifically in Silverlake.  Netflix has now amassed 23.6 million subscribers, enough to trump both Comcast [...]

The biggest surprise this week came from Iron Maiden, who managed to add 1.5 million Facebook likes in just two days.  As part of their ongoing tour, the band has been asking fans to tag themselves across several crowd shots, resulting in the surge of followers on facebook.com/ironmaiden.  The group debuted at #39 on the Ultimate [...]

The average number seems unbelievably low - until you look at the calculations below. And, the TuneCore figure is remarkably similar to a recent per-year payout calculation for CD Baby artists, which was $174 (as calculated in August of last year).  And, keep in mind this is gross revenue before costs - to TuneCore, for computer equipment, iTunes, [...]

Never, in all our history of popular music, has there been such a plethora of composers - professional, amateur, alleged - as we have today. Responsible, of course, are those two fresh hotbeds, the coniferous cinema and the radio.          The merciless ether - by unceasing plugging - has cut down the [...]

BMI has just promoted Darren Briggs to Vice President of Technology Innovation.   Briggs will be based in Nashville.   On the heels of TuneUp 2.0, RealNetworks is debuting an iTunes collection cleaner called Rinse.  But wait: wouldn't Real prefer to be scrubbing its own music app?     Former Sony chairman Norio Ohga has [...]

BMI has just promoted Darren Briggs to Vice President of Technology Innovation.   Briggs will be based in Nashville.   On the heels of TuneUp 2.0, RealNetworks is debuting an iTunes collection cleaner called Rinse.  But wait: wouldn't Real prefer to be scrubbing its own music app?    Former Sony chairman Norio Ohga has now [...]

Face it, you're in love - with an overpriced iPad and the feeling of inclusion that comes with it. The 'fanboys' are the zealots that blog about every iWhatever rumor; they'll clap from the front row at every Apple presentation. But the rest are merely wooed and starry-eyed: they'll gladly part with hundreds of dollars [...]

Shares of WMG closed at $7.46 on Thursday (markets were closed on Friday). That compares to a valuation of $24.46 for the week ending April 24th, 2006, a 71.81 percent drop over the five-year span. On a financial basis, a recent deep-dive by Digital Music News revealed aggregate losses topping $10 billion over the past [...]

Oh how quickly hype can turn to hate, especially when downed sites, inaccesible accounts, and millions of dollars are involved. Now, Sony's PlayStation Network is entering its sixth-straight day of darkness, a situation that follows a major outage involving Amazon's enterprise cloud service. Most of Amazon's clients - including Indaba Music - have recovered, though [...]