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Big Music's Digital Strategy: Cheap CDs
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...
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Will the Web Save the Radio Star?
Is radio making a comeback? Hard to believe, but advisory firm BIA/Kelsey says the battered industry will see revenue bump up slightly this year following years of decline–and will keep growing after...
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Music's Digital Sales Boom Comes to an End
Remember when people used to predict that digital music sales would make up for the disappearing CD? That’s officially over now: Last quarter, for the first time ever, the number of digital songs sold...
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[UPDATED] The Spotify Song Has a Familiar Chorus: U.S. Launch Talks Back to...
UPDATE: Spotify tells the Telegraph that the Billboard piece is wrong, and insists that it will make it to the U.S. by the end of the year. —— When will Spotify, the best music service Americans can’t...
View ArticleAnd With an Arrest, Trial and Conviction, We Can Make an Album
Sign o’ the times. Making its debut on the Billboard Hot 100 hit list at No. 89–just below Justin Bieber and Young Jeezy, and a spot above Brad Paisley–is an Internet interloper: The “Bed Intruder...
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A Store, a Cloud Service and Sharing: Here's What Google Music Might Look Like
A download store, a music locker and the ability to share some of your music with your friends, for $25 a year. That’s what Google would like its music service to look like. So says Billboard’s Ed...
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Michael Jackson Can't Help Sony Music Any More
Michael Jackson was such a huge star that he was able to stop the music industry’s perpetual slide: In the aftermath of his death last year, sales perked up at Sony’s music arm, which puts out the...
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Polyvore Goes Sky High With Times Square Billboard
Polyvore, the site for aspiring fashionistas to mix and match products from various brands to create their favorite outfits, is making its debut on the Times Square catwalk. The sky-high billboard is...
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Amazon Tells the Music Labels to Quit Crying About the Cloud, Start Cashing...
It’s been two weeks since Amazon launched its cloud-based music service. And Amazon says it’s been a big success–for the music labels. In a letter sent to the big labels, Amazon says it has been...
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What Kind of Music Service Does Google Really Want, and When Will It Show Up?
What kind of music service did Google really want to unveil yesterday? And why did talks between Google and the music labels really break down, resulting in the locker service that debuted instead? I...
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Rhapsody Bundles Music With MetroPCS, Forgets to Include a Discount
Music subscription services have been around forever, but have never really caught on. Services like Rhapsody, MOG, Napster and Rdio have had a hard time persuading many people to shell out a monthly...
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How to Solve the Mystery of Spotify and the Missing Coldplay Album
You can listen to just about any song in the world, for free, on Spotify. One big exception: ”Mylo Xyloto,” the new Coldplay album, which isn’t available on the streaming music service or any of its...
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More Moguls for D: Dive Into Media -- Clear Channel, Legendary Pictures and...
We’re about three months away from D: Dive Into Media, which means it’s time to show a bit more leg and tell you about more of the speakers we’ll have joining us onstage. For our first-ever media...
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The New York Times Bits Blog Gets a Billboard
Competition in the technoblogoverse just got a little fiercer! The New York Times Bits technology blog now has its very own billboard on Highway 101. Specifically, the billboard is on 101 southbound in...
View ArticleYou Know What's Cooler Than Two Million Dollars?
He’s an a–hole. That guy has $2 billion that he made from figuring out ways to steal royalties from artists, and that’s the bottom line. You can’t really trust anybody like that. – Black Keys drummer...
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Former Yahoo Boss Ross Levinsohn Has a New Gig, and a Digital M&A War Chest
Ross Levinsohn, who wanted to run Yahoo but didn’t get the gig, has a new perch. He’s heading up a new digital media company backed by Guggenheim Partners. Guggenheim already controlled several media...
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Former CBS Exec Lurie Joins Former Yahoo Levinsohn at Guggenheim Digital Media
Well-known digital media exec Zander Lurie has been hired by former Yahoo exec Ross Levinsohn to become one of his key lieutenants at Guggenheim Digital Media. Lurie will be an EVP there, where he...
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Yahoo Work-From-Home Controversy Already a Silicon Valley Billboard Meme
Video conferencing company Blue Jeans Network, which is obviously a big supporter of working from home for employees, is putting its money where its telecommuting mouth is to speak out on the debate...
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Yahoo's Work-From-Home Kerfuffle, Groupon's Ex-CEO and Firefox's Lovers: The...
Flickr user GakuHello, and happy Old Stuff Day! And here, have some of our old stuff, which happens to still be pretty new. Here are our Top 10 stories from the week of Feb. 25: 1.) “Physically...
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Start Spreading the News: Yahoo Gets New Times Square Office, Offers Free...
At a media event in New York today, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer announced a new office in Times Square for the Silicon Valley Internet giant. “From one Mayor to another,” said Mayor Michael Bloomberg to...
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Apple Signs Sony Publishing Up for iRadio, Too
Apple has cleared another big hurdle in advance of its iRadio launch by signing a deal with music publisher Sony/ATV. Asa Mathat / AllThingsD.com The deal comes shortly after Apple signed a deal with...
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Apple Still Has a Giant Advantage in Digital Music, With 75 Percent of the...
There are a lot of places to spend money on digital music, but all of them are dwarfed by iTunes. If you spend any time at all thinking about the digital music business, you know that already. But it’s...
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Yahoo Plans Splashy New San Francisco Digs (And Dreams of Neon Billboard's...
Justin Sullivan, Getty Images News According to multiple sources close to the situation, Yahoo is close to signing a lease for a splashy new San Francisco outpost to keep up with the fast growth of...
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Rap Genius Already Hugging It Out With Music Publishers
Diaframma/Shutterstock You know that big fight a bunch of us were looking forward to, featuring Silicon Valley darlings Rap Genius versus the music-publishing industry? Looks like we’re not going to...
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The Story of This Viral Video Will Blow Your Mind! (Please Tell Your Friends!)
Got a song you want to turn into a smash hit on the Web? Can’t get Apple to use it in one of their ads? Can’t get an iconic TV show to use it in the last scene of its final episode? Then there’s always...
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