Music Business Times News Feed Informer http://feed.informer.com/images/fd.gif http://feed.informer.com/ http://app.feed.informer.com/digest3/L7VOBJWZXG.html Respective post owners and feed distributors http://feed.informer.com/ Perhaps more than any existing modern music marketing and sales platform Topspin is based on data. They collected it from the beginning, have done enough diverse campaigns to see the trends and have a team to understand the patterns. At a recent MidemNat presentation Topspin co-founder Shamal Ranasinghe shared the most in depth overview of their findings to date. Some of the important and perhaps surprising trends that Topspin has discovered include the importance of physical goods to many fans and their love of premium offerings. More than half of the transactions in the Topspin study are under $10... http://www.google.com/reader/view/#stream/feed%2Fhttp%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2Ftypepad%2FDqMf Delicious/mbtimes/feed http://www.google.com/reader/view/#stream/feed%2Fhttp%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2Ftypepad%2FDqMf? Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:14 GMT Los Angeles is once again poised for a media-saturated, celebrity-soaked trial with the arrest Monday of Michael Jackson's physician, Conrad Murray, on charges of involuntary manslaughter in the use of an anesthetic to treat the pop superstar's insomnia. The sight of satellite trucks, flanks of camera crews and the circus of onlookers, such as those who reportedly shouted 'Murderer!' when... http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118014871.html?categoryid=3667&cs=1&nid=2568&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+variety%2Fnews%2Fmusic+%28Variety+-+Music+News%29&utm_content=Google+Reader Delicious/mbtimes/feed http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118014871.html?categoryid=3667&cs=1&nid=2568&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+variety%2Fnews%2Fmusic+%28Variety+-+Music+News%29&utm_content=Google+Reader? Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:02 GMT Mechanicals are getting battered by sinking CDs. Smaller budgets are cramping synch licensing revenues. And even performance royalties are under pressure. Does this sound like the stable publishing industry we know and love? Suddenly, publishing is getting tugged by recordings and the broader economy, and that spells serious challenges ahead. 'I do think 2010 might be the most challenging environment we've ever been in... http://digitalmusicnews.com/stories/020810publishing Delicious/mbtimes/feed http://digitalmusicnews.com/stories/020810publishing? Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:58 GMT The recent court decision to award to a music publisher 40 to 60 per cent of the earnings of Men At Work for their song 'Down Under', ten seconds of whose orchestration included a flute rendition of 'Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree', knowingly and playfully quoted, is a fresh Hell musicians, many of them friends of mine, do not need... http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/stories/s2813330.htm Delicious/mbtimes/feed http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/stories/s2813330.htm? Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:54 GMT Universal Music Group veteran Jeff Bronikowski will take over as the new head of Yahoo Music, replacing Michael Speigelman, who is moving to a different role within the company. Bronikowski worked at Universal for 11 years, most recently as senior VP of global digital initiatives, before leaving last January. He will report to Yahoo VP of entertainment Sibyl Goldman and will be based in New York. He is scheduled to start late next week... http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/industry/e3ib96053a9e47796d7a8b7647bc8400cf1 Delicious/mbtimes/feed http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/industry/e3ib96053a9e47796d7a8b7647bc8400cf1? Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:49 GMT Warner Music is currently below its 50-day moving average of $5.39 and below its 200-day moving average of $5.57. Look for these moving averages to decline to confirm the company's downward momentum... http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2010/02/08/4611339.htm Delicious/mbtimes/feed http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2010/02/08/4611339.htm? Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:47 GMT Hoping to boost revenue, MySpace Music has begun experimenting with audio advertisements that users must hear if they want to listen to music for free online. The 30-second ads began appearing last week when users listen to songs on artist profiles, album pages, playlists and pop-out players. They expand on a trial that began in December... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100208/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_techbit_myspace_music_audio_ads Delicious/mbtimes/feed http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100208/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_techbit_myspace_music_audio_ads? Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:41 GMT Motorola acted as lead investor and was joined by new investors Intellect Capital Ventures, as well as HillsVen Capital and Novel TMT. TuneWiki's previous venture capital investor, Benchmark Israel, also participated in the round. TuneWiki will use the investment to expand and enhance its product offerings for leading mobile platforms and the Internet. The company's upcoming releases will take further advantage of platform capabilities and new features found in recently released smartphones, including... http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/motorola-ventures-leads-financing-for-tunewiki-83800262.html Delicious/mbtimes/feed http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/motorola-ventures-leads-financing-for-tunewiki-83800262.html? Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:40 GMT Bruce Springsteen wants his name off a lawsuit demanding licensing fees from a N.Y. bar where a band played his songs. A statement on Springsteen's Web site said he didn't know about the lawsuit that was filed Wednesday in federal court and wouldn't have agreed to be a plaintiff if he had been asked. It says Springsteen's representatives demanded the immediate removal of his name after learning about the lawsuit filed by ASCAP... http://abclocal.go.com/wjrt/story?section=news/entertainment&id=7262880&rss=rss-wjrt-article-7262880 Delicious/mbtimes/feed http://abclocal.go.com/wjrt/story?section=news/entertainment&id=7262880&rss=rss-wjrt-article-7262880? Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:55 GMT The Los Angeles Times is exploring how the Internet and social media are reshaping the recording industry in an occasional series of stories called 'Broken Record.' Here's a link to the first story by pop culture writer Geoff Boucher. Geoff explains the idea behind the series in this video... http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/money_co/2010/02/how-social-media-is-reshaping-the-music-industry.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LaLand+%28L.A.+Land%29 Delicious/mbtimes/feed http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/money_co/2010/02/how-social-media-is-reshaping-the-music-industry.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LaLand+%28L.A.+Land%29? Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:52 GMT It's always seemed to me that there's been something missing in the digital music revolution. Sure, we've all got iPods, and we can download music from Amazon or iTunes. Some of us are even getting attached to free streaming services such as Pandora and Last.fm. And for those of us living out of broadcast range of our favorite radio stations, it's possible to log in and listen online... http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/05/AR2010020504740.html?hpid=sec-tech Delicious/mbtimes/feed http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/05/AR2010020504740.html?hpid=sec-tech? Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:50 GMT Now-shuttered Seeqpod is technically off the hook with EMI Music, according to a US District Court ruling surfacing Friday. But right or wrong, this is hardly the victory the company was looking for. And, in the process, Seeqpod becomes the latest poster child for a legal system that almost always favors big litigants. The dismissal, first tipped by GigaOM, was based on jurisdictional issues. In a particularly strong legal attack, EMI sought damages against the specific individuals backing Seeqpod... http://digitalmusicnews.com/stories/020510seeqpod Delicious/mbtimes/feed http://digitalmusicnews.com/stories/020510seeqpod? Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:46 GMT EMI Music is drawing up plans for radical cost cuts, including a further reduction in its 3,500-strong workforce, to persuade investors to stump up the $192m that private equity owner Terra Firma needs to retain control of the business. The plan, which is being devised by a 12-strong executive team, was disclosed last night by EMI Music chief executive Elio Leoni-Sceti... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/7175310/EMI-draws-up-fresh-plan-for-cuts.html Delicious/mbtimes/feed http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/7175310/EMI-draws-up-fresh-plan-for-cuts.html? Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:37 GMT SIMON Cowell's TV company made record profits of more than $32 million last year from The X Factor and Britain's Got Talent. His Simco Ltd firm raked in nearly $80,000 a day from the reality hits, which are the UK's most-watched shows... http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/121226/-50k-a-day-Cowell/ Delicious/mbtimes/feed http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/121226/-50k-a-day-Cowell/? Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:35 GMT The authorities do not know exactly how many people have been killed warbling 'My Way' in karaoke bars over the years in the Philippines, or how many fatal fights it has fueled. But the news media have recorded at least half a dozen victims in the past decade and includes them in a subcategory of crime dubbed the 'My Way Killings.' The killings have produced urban legends about the song and left Filipinos groping for answers... http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/07/world/asia/07karaoke.html?partner=rss&emc=rss Delicious/mbtimes/feed http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/07/world/asia/07karaoke.html?partner=rss&emc=rss? Sun, 07 Feb 2010 05:40 GMT