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Sony Is Now Offering Its Music Subscription Service for $3.50 a Month... The question is whether a price war is good for anyone but music fans. Just this morning, Sony started offering their 'Music Unlimited' subscription service for $41.99 a year, which boils down to $3.50 a month.    The catch?  According to preliminary details [...]

Clear Channel President: "Not All People Can Afford a $15 a Month Subscription..." This week's most anticipated news may have been the almost-launch of Apple’s iTunes Radio. Yet the president of Clear Channel, John Sykes, has told Digital Music News that those declaring the imminent death of terrestrial radio are way off base:   "They [...]

Clear Channel President: "Most People Can't Afford $15 a Month Subscription..." This week's most anticipated news may have been the almost-launch of Apple’s iTunes Radio. Yet the president of Clear Channel, John Sykes, has told Digital Music News that those declaring the imminent death of terrestrial radio are way off base:    "They don't realise [...]

PriceWaterhouse Predicts Near-Zero Music Industry Growth Over the Next 5 Years... And you wonder why so many music companies are diversifying into other, non-music industries.  Because when the research companies are saying things are bad, then things are bad.   Which brings us to Pricewaterhouse Coopers, which just issued a report calling for a modest [...]

The US Copyright Office Demands That Broadcasters Start Paying Artists... Speaking to a crowd of people from the creative industries at the World Creators Summit in Washington, DC, the US Register of Copyrights, Maria Pallante, has confirmed that she's looking to "provide a full public performance right for sound recordings".        In other [...]

The 7 Attributes of Younger Music Fans... They may never buy your album, yet they'll live-stream you eating breakfast.  It's the ever-changing, younger music fan of 2013, and the focus of a just-released report from MTV Research.       Here are 7 attributes of this young, still-emerging, and radically different audience group often dubbed Millennials. [...]

7 Rules for Relating to the Modern Music Fan... They may never buy your album, yet they'll live-stream you eating breakfast.  It's the ever-changing, younger music fan of 2013, and the focus of a just-released report from MTV Research.     Here are 7 rules for relating to this young, still-emerging, and radically different audience [...]

Right Now: The New Slacker EQ Score Chart Slacker launched its new EQ Score chart system to track the 40 most "engaging" tracks. The Slacker EQ score, a number from one to a hundred, measures hundreds of millions of data to determine with which tracks listeners really love.  The new scoring system was developed because [...]

If Licensing Is 'Cancer' for Startups, Deezer CEO Axel Dauchez Has a Cure... Deezer's CEO, Axel Dauchez, has told the World Creators Summit audience that the fragmentation of music rights is the "cancer" threatening to destroy innovation in digital music services.  And he's come up with the cure.         Not too long [...]

Death to Pandora? Apple Secures All Label Licenses for iRadio... The big holdout, Sony Music Entertainment, now appears to be completely on board.  The Wall Street Journal reported this morning, and I quote:   "Sony Music has signed on to Apple's forthcoming iRadio service…  ...the deal means that Apple now has agreements with all three [...]