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The downside of website sales?

Radiohead and Prince will both miss out on Brit Award nominations next year due to eligibility rules.

Artists must have had a top 75 UK single or album during the past 16 months before they can be considered.

But Radiohead album In Rainbows was only released for download on the band's website, which does not report sales to chart compilers.

Prince album Planet Earth was given away free in a

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Posted by Thom on December 3rd, 2007 at 2:04pm — No Comments (Add)
 

IMDb Launching a Database and Social Network for Music?

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Amazon-owned Internet Movie Database (IMDb) has filed a trademark application for the term “SoundUnwound.” According to the filing, the trademark would cover:

“Providing information regarding, and in the nature of, social networking services; online social networking s

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Posted by Thom on December 3rd, 2007 at 1:50pm — No Comments (Add)
 

YouTube Launches in Australia & New Zealand

YouTube is headed to Australia. With its obvious efforts to expand globally, Australia is its next stop. The video-sharing network is also expected to launch a local YouTube site tomorrow for New Zealand. Australia’s new YouTube Site can be found at au.youtube.com

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Posted by Thom on November 28th, 2007 at 5:23pm — No Comments (Add)
 

Flektor and MySpace Officially Unite

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Fox Interactive Media have completed the assimilation of Flektor to their collective toda…

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Posted by Thom on November 28th, 2007 at 4:55pm — No Comments (Add)
 

25 Tools For The Independent Musician


Think the music industry is dying, and that it’s time to go independent? Or have you always favored smaller, independent record companies over huge bureaucratic institutions? Don’t worry, even if you don’t have dozens of spin doctors working for you, you can still promote your indie band online. We’ve got 25+ tools to help you do just that.

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Posted by Thom on November 23rd, 2007 at 3:21pm — No Comments (Add)
 

iTunes Toolbox


Apple launched iTunes widgets last week, allowing you to post your iTunes info to blogs and social networks. We thought it would be a good opportunity to round up all the services that let you extend and customize iTunes, as well as sharing your music with your friends.

Desktop Applications

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Posted by Thom on November 23rd, 2007 at 3:06pm — No Comments (Add)
 

Last.fm exercises OpenSocial options, launches Ning app

Last.fm is now launching an application within Ning, a network of niche social networking destinations. The Last.fm application allows users to create a display of their favourite artists, and launch customised and interactive radio stations.

That represents a miniature version of the Last.fm service, a favourite among many music fans. In …

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Posted by Thom on November 22nd, 2007 at 11:46am — No Comments (Add)
 

FaceBook Music

Facebook music is here (sort of). While there is no music store (yet), you are able to create a band profile and use that to promote your band and your musical ambitions.

Just check out Dave Matthews band at http://facebook.com/davematthewsband to get an idea of what the band pages look like.

To make your own band page, visit facebook.com/p…

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Posted by Thom on November 22nd, 2007 at 1:10pm — No Comments (Add)
 

Facebook: We’re More Annoying than MySpace

A couple weeks ago we wrote about a blogger and bandmember of Uncle Seth named Jay Moonah. Jay was trying to take advantage of the new Facebook Pages feature, and create a site for his band. Like any respectable band page on or off Facebook in this day and age, he wanted to…

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Posted by Thom on November 22nd, 2007 at 1:16pm — No Comments (Add)
 

Sony BMG And Yahoo Sign Music and Video Deal

If there’s one thing that YouTube taught us, it’s the fact that you can get sued no matter how big you are. Yahoo has learned its history lesson and now they’ve signed a licensing deal with Sony BMG Music Entertainment which lets their users upload Sony’s video and music content to Yahoo’s sites. Financial terms are unknown, but just like with other similar deals, for example Google’s deal with Sony BMG, the two com…

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Posted by Thom on November 22nd, 2007 at 1:26pm — No Comments (Add)
 

Trent Reznor Ponders Music’s Downward Spiral

To be quite honest, if you asked me where to find thoughtful commentary on DMCA and musician’s digital intellectual property rights, the last place that comes to mind would be Trent Reznor’s blog at NIN.com.

That’s exactly what you’ll find, right now, if you head over there. Just a few weeks ago, Reznor and company released an album directly to the internet with a obscurely poetic rant d…

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Posted by Thom on November 22nd, 2007 at 1:39pm — No Comments (Add)
 

MySpace and Textango Giving Away Free Music

A little known company called Textango has partnered up with MySpace for a promotion similar to what we’ve seen with Radiohead. Free music. Punk band Pennywise is giving out free, ad-supported music through Textango via its mobile music distribution service. If you add Textango as a friend on MySpace, then you’ll be able to download the entire album for free.

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Posted by Thom on November 22nd, 2007 at 1:45pm — No Comments (Add)
 

 
 

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