British Music Label to Release Songs as Open Format: As the music industry lost billions of dollars and music fans have turned away from CDs to easy-to-use and portable songs in the MP3 file format, PlayApp, a Dallas, Texas-based business has released a new multimedia, open format that is even easier to use, and collectible, unlike MP3s. [Business of Cinema]
Filesharing crackdown divides UK music industry:The row has pitted big names such as Billy Bragg and Annie Lennox against record labels and the Musicians' Union ahead of an approaching government deadline for comments in its illegal file-sharing consultation. [Guardian]
The State of Music Online: Ten Years After Napster: In the decade since Napster’s launch, selling recorded music has become as much of an art as making the music itself. [Pew Internet]
Death of the music industry or…death of the recording industry?: This NY Times article uses a graphical representation of sales data, which to be fair, is compelling and shocking if you sell recorded music. [Sound Alliance]
YouTube and PRS Make Peace as Musicians Protest Plans to Punish File Swappers: Thousands of music videos pulled from YouTube in a royalties dispute will go back online after peace broke out today between the website and the music industry. [Guardian UK]
Consumers Don’t Listen to Music on Mobile Phone: 9 out of 10 people in the U.S. never listen to music on their cell phones. That’s the key finding in a new Forester Research study The Future Of Music On Cell Phones. [HypeBot]Microsoft Discontinues All Current Zunes: Looks like the Zune didn’t pass Microsoft’s ‘Death Panel.” [Wired]
CMX: Yet Another New Digital Album Format: All four major label groups are working together to create a new format for the digital album tentatively titled CMX. [HypeBot]Rolling Stone (re)Discovers the Web:
In an overdue move, Rolling Stone is taking back control of its
flagship web site from RealNetworks, and will be relaunching it in
January with new community and customization features. [Hypebot]
Terry McBride of Nettwerk: Is Ownership of Music Simply Irrelevant? [Paste Magazine]
A third of young people would not pay for music online, or videos: While the statistic appears to confirm the worst fears of TV, film, music and newspaper companies that it may be impossible to get the younger generation to pay online, the EC report did offer a glimmer of hope. [Guardian UK]
And just for fun...
20 Pre-Punk Gems: For this playlist I wanted to explore some of my favorite tracks from the pre-punk era. [Yahoo! Music]
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